Airbags in the lungs of your baby begins to develop. Lungs produces a material called “surfactant” in order to provide inspiration after birth. This material prevents the walls of these small airbags to stick into each other. By the help of this, in each inspiration airbags fill up with air. At this week, your baby’s lungs started to produce surfactant, however not in necassary amount. Some type of injections are made to the pregnant women who have premature birth risk in order to accelarate the production process of this material.
Pregnancy Ultrasound Baby Scans
The purpose of this is preventing inspiration problems of the baby in case of premature birth. In some researches, while the brain waves of the babies analyzed, it is proved that babies response to touching by brain waves. Also, another interesting finding is that the baby turns his/her head to the light, when a powerful light source is placed on your abdomen. You may feel some sort of hardening in your abdomen during these week immediately, do not worry about them. These are normal contractions occur during pregnancy called Braxton-Hicks. If there is risk of premature birth, these contractions occur frequently and regularly. You may get help from your spouse to determine these regular contractions. Your spouse should wait by placing his palm over just to the top of your uterus. The top of your uterus will be 5 cm. upper than your navel. Your spouse can determine the presence and frequency of the contractions by examining for almost 20 minutes like this. You can do this operation by yourself also however, since you may not be objective, it would be better to get help from your spouse. You may not feel contractions like aches or you may think of them as menstruation aches. If you are not certain about the frequency of these contraction, please contact your doctor immediately.
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The most important event of this week is the development of gustatory sense of your baby to a great extent. By gustatory sense, deciduous teeth of your baby develop, whatever you believe or not. Meanwhile, his/her body fills up proportionately, his/her fatty tissues under his/her skin develop. Neverthless the area he/she keeps in uterus starts to decrease. That is the decrease of free space for him to move. Consequently, the movements will be felt more strongly. During these weeks you feel that you are exhausted. This is a quite normal complaint of pregnancy. Also you may realize that your eyes become more sensitive to light. Dry eye related with pregnancy is one of the most common complaints of pregnant women. In order to overcome this problem, you may use artificial tear preparates. Because of the pressure occured by enlarging uterus, and irregular circulation, there might be aches in legs and waist. In some pregnant women, even there might be aches in fingers. Under these circumstances, ice application to the area aches should be helpful. Even you have not decided the name of your baby, you might start to look up during these weeks.
Week by Week Pregnancy
Attention: Under well-prepared conditions and intensive care, premature babies born in this week can survive. 24th week is one of the most important turning points in the pregnancy period, because this week has been accepted as the limit of viability. Viability means the survival of the fetus out of his/her mother’s womb without her support. Nevertheless, the viability of fetus cannot be always realized. To make this happen, living functions like inspiration and digestion systems should be well supported and body heat should be preserved besides protecting it from several types of infections. A fetus in 24th week will be around 650-700 gr. in weight. In well designed birth centers, these babies can survive, but it is not the point to make them survive only, rather the development of their basic senses like sight, hearing and mental abilities should be observed closely during their entire life. In the literature, the earliest premature baby born in 19th week of pregnancy in Kenya called Kelly. At this week, the veins in the lungs develop. More or less all of his/her organs are performing by this week. There might be gingival bleeding observed for you. Because of pregnancy hormones, a gingival disease called epulis gravidarum can be observed. There might be bleeding while brushing your teeth, or sometimes even washing out your mouth. Gingival contraction might be observed. Even at the latest stages of disease, you may lose your teeth. Therefore, if you have complaints like that, you should contact to your dentist immediately. Again in 24th week, your physician will request 50 gr. glucoses inspection test in order to detect the presence of diabetics related with pregnancy. This test should be cancelled until 28th week. During these weeks, you should be well informed to be cautious about the symptoms of premature birth. Your physician will assist you on the issue.
Week by Week Pregnancy
Your baby looks like a little human yet. Since the little bones within the ears strengthen enough, he/she can hear very well. His/her lips begin to appear significantly while his/her smile can be observed under ultrasonography. His/her length became 17-18 cm. and his/her weight is around 600 grams. Even though the eyes are apparent, the colored part, iris, has not been pigmented yet. That is the color of the eyes is not evident. Pancreas has started to enzyme insulin even though it is not fully functional. You are gaining weight gradually. During this period, the event called “cittosis” has accelerated. Some little evasions from the diet without exaggerating could be welcomed. Leg cramps are not that occasional for pregnant women experiencing weeks of twenties. Intake of Calcium and Magnesium will decrease the complaints and frequency of cramps. When you have cramps in your legs, by putting your legs straight ahead, you may request your spouse to massage. Another nice thing is that your spouse can feel the action of your baby yet. Your spouse can feel it by touching your abdomen, even these actions can be viewed from outside. The reason of this is the excess of amnion liquid comparatively which your baby is in. That is your baby has more than enough space to move. Your baby moves freely inside like tumbling. These actions are very important for your baby’s motor development that means the strengthening of muscles. During these weeks under ultrasonography while breech birth has been observed, it might change in exchange of vertex birth after short time. Breech position of the baby is not that important.
Week by Week Pregnancy
When you reached this week, you can talk to your baby, you can read something to or you can sing to him/her. Because he/she can hear you then. Even he/she can respond to sound. So you can have him/her listen to some special CDs for baby development. There are some studies suggesting that listening to classical music in womb is helpful for babies’ psychological development. Even these are not true, how can listening to music, reading books or singing songs be harmful for your little baby? Moreover, some studies suggest that if you read the same books which you read before birth again, while your baby is sucking milk, he/she will suck more efficiently. It is fantastic, isn’t it? When it is happening with your baby, you can realize that you may have some difficulties to balance yourself while standing. Since your womb is enlarging so your waist curve is also enlarging inside, the balance center of your body is replacing. You may have some difficulties to balance yourself, because your body cannot adapt to these changes that quickly. Therefore, it is suggested not to take shower while you are alone at home. Just for that reason, it is also suggested to suspend sports based on balancing. Due to hormones related with pregnancy, there will be relaxing all around your body from your finger joints to ankles. This can cause waist pains. These are the weeks that it should be better to say good-bye to high-heeled shoes for you because balancing problems and waist pains. Wearing orthopedic shoes will help you during rest of your pregnancy period.
Week by Week Pregnancy
