Pregnancy Stage (12-24 weeks)

             Second Trimester (12-24)

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Prenatal Visit

You will visit your OB/birthing assistant month to month or all the more often relying upon your necessities. Pose any inquiries you might have.

Assessments

At these visits, you will have a weight check, important bodily function evaluation, pee dipstick for glucose, egg whites, and ketones, stomach estimation (fundal level), and a fetal heart check.

Medications

Keep taking your pre-birth nutrients. Paleness during pregnancy is normal. Your obstetrician or birthing assistant might arrange iron enhancements.

Diagnostics Tests

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) recommends that each pregnant lady be supplied a screening check for Down syndrome, irrespective of the woman’s age. Screening can be a maternal blood check achieved withinside the first trimester together with ultrasound, or it may be a maternal blood check achieved withinside the 2d trimester without ultrasound or an aggregate of both.

ACOG additionally recommends that each pregnant lady be supplied with invasive diagnostic trying out with the aid of using chorionic villus sampling (CVS) or genetic amniocentesis, irrespective of age. These tactics gain cells/tissue that lets in for an incredibly correct prognosis of Down syndrome or different genetic variations. However, CVS and amniocentesis are invasive and bring a small threat of inflicting a miscarriage.

A noninvasive blood check is now to be had for ladies with expanded threat signs for fetal chromosome variations. This check detects an expanded quantity of DNA material (mom and baby) this is circulating to your blood. This can expect a chromosomal abnormality consisting of Down syndrome (trisomy 21) in your baby. The expanded threat elements encompass one or extra of the following:

• Advanced maternal age
• Personal/own circle of relatives records of chromosomal abnormalities
• Fetal ultrasound abnormality suggestive of chromosomal abnormalities
• Positive serum screening check

Teaching and Learning

Sign up for childbirth instructions and different instructions which can be of hobby to you, which includes breastfeeding, infant care, and little one CPR. Refer to Childbirth Education to discover to be had instructions.

Read approximately hard work and childbirth. Ask your OB/midwife approximately their specific philosophies concerning hard work and birth. Explore facts approximately Your Birth Plan.

Fetal Development

At about 16 weeks your child is around 6.3 inches long and gauges .08 pounds. It is kicking and moving about as often as possible. You might be feeling the child moving. On the off chance that this is your most memorable child, you are probably going to feel the primary developments a piece later.

At 20 weeks the child is swimming in a lot of amniotic liquid developing quickly, both long and weight, and is currently 9.8 inches and weighs around .75 pounds. The child is exceptionally dynamic. You will presumably see that there are times when your child is by all accounts snoozing and different times while he's moving a ton.

At 24 weeks your child is around 12.5 inches long and weighs 1 pound, 1.6 ounces. You might feel various pieces of the child's body through your stomach wall. Your uterine muscle is extending and you might feel periodic torment at the edges of your mid-region (round tendon agony). The highest point of your uterus (the fundus) spans to simply over your navel.