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One of the most important gift that a pregnant woman can give to her unborn child is a clear mind, the calm and a relaxed body. All this because your baby receive chemical messages through the blood vessels of the placenta. So everything you feel during pregnancy will be felt by your baby to. If you fell anger or you are upset, your baby will feel the same, will became hyperactive and the risk of miscarriage will increase.
Due to multiple changes that appear during pregnancy, the woman is very often predisposed to stress. A lot of studies have found a link between the stress felt by the pregnant woman and the consequences to the unborn child. The cause which can be responsible for the repercussions on the child, is related to the level of cortisone. These increases proportionally with the level of stress experienced by women and jump to the fetus through the placenta.
The children who have been exposed during pregnancy to a high level of cortisone have a low IQ, hyperactivity and anxiety.
Some tips to reduce stress
-Think positive , be relaxed and optimistic. It is good to keep in touch with your doctor and if you have any worries you should ask him. In that way you would now everything about what is going to happen and so you will be more relaxed.
- Do the things that you like more: go for short walks, listen some good music, chill music is very indicated because it relax both you and the baby, go shopping, make yourself beauty.
-You will feel all the time tired so it is good to rest when you feel the need to do this.
-Tell your partner what you feel. Read about the changes that take place, about life in three if it is the first pregnancy. Tell him about your fears and try to solve them.
-Try to see the beautiful part of being pregnant, not only to focus on the bad moments .Speak to your child, comfort him, be a happy future mother. In that way you will be healthy both physical and mental, and your child will be the most loved in the world.
The flu is perhaps the most dangerous in pregnancy.
It is an acute infectious disease, highly contagious, caused by influenza virus, a virus with many variants but less durable. It is generally transmitted from person to person with a high infectiousness, generating frequent epidemics. The source is a disease send by patients directly, through sneezing, coughing, speaking v
ery slowly and ,indirectly through recently affected and infected articles . It happens that the disease can be contacted and in some animals or birds. Attention: A pregnant woman should take extra care. The virus enters through the respiratory mucosa, there multiply and cause inflammatory and toxic phenomena. Rarely can penetrate into the blood.
Most pregnant women suffering from the flu can lead the pregnancy period and the risk of birth defects, premature birth, intrauterine growth delay, death in uteri, leukemia and schizophrenia later in childhood or adult is small. From existing data up to now is not clear if there is a risk in the occurrence of fetal malformations. Some studies indicate a risk of one per cent, others do not identify any risk for influenza infection during the first trimester. It is said the most likely, if this risk exists, it is very small, especially if you take into consideration that every pregnancy is a risk arising between 3 and 5 percent for congenital malformations. Children born to mothers with chronic respiratory diseases complicated by influenza have low birth weight, more especially if their mothers smoke, and a higher hospitalization in the intensive newborns care .
Methods of prevention and treatment
You should prepare in advance the body resistance to infection, before of the coming cold season. And even if you contract the virus, it can occur in a milder form. Therefore you must eat healthy, with as many vitamins, especially C and E, minerals like selenium, zinc, etc.. You should eat garlic, is a very important article in preventing influenza. Make sports daily. Avoid crowded places and contact with patients, especially during epidemics. Watch out as you can of fatigue and stress (especially during pregnancy), they reduce immunity and create good environment for the flu.
Pregnancy is a delicate period for any woman, and specific hormonal changes that occur during pregnancy increase the sensitivity of the pregnant woman, she becomes more sensitive and all her feelings are more pronounced. Thus, pregnant women is more sensitive and more vulnerable in the face of stress, behavior may change from time to time, feeling anxiety and depression become more pronounced .
Behavioral disorders during pregnancy consist especially in anxiety, depression and sudden changes of emotional state. Although some of these changes go unnoticed in the initial stage is attributed to the “moods”, however it is important that a pregnant woman to be careful and not have mental health issues, not just physical, the mental states may also influence physical health status. Medical studies have revealed for instance that anxiety increases the risk of spontaneous abortion or premature birth, so is depression, including the behavior during pregnancy affects baby’s life after birth. Other studies have conduct disorders in children whose mothers have suffered from anxiety during pregnancy, such as hyperactivity and decreased concentration and memory after 4 years.
How to detect behavioral problems?
Sudden change in mental states and emotional sensitivity are normal in pregnancy but stressed to a limit. Is it normal to be scared, can easily cause depression of numerous factors that have changed due to lifestyle and body changes that occur during pregnancy, but in certain circumstances should pay more attention to all these physiological changes:
- Repeated insomnia on consecutive evenings of sleep disorders
- Panic attacks with feeling of suffocation, end or even the feeling of a heart attack
- A state of worry for both your health and the unborn child birth
- Nothing seems fun, you only stay in the house
- It is hard to focus
- Emotional instability .
Things that you should do to overcome the anxiety
A very important aspect is the ability to tell your partner what you feel, what are your thoughts and your worries. You don’t have to go by yourself through all this changes. The support, love and understanding from your partner will help you to see how beautiful is this period and how happy you will be when you will hold your baby in your arms. The secret to feel better is a positive attitude but also the love and care from the ones closer to you. You don’t have to forget that your partner could feel anxiety ,because is a change for him too, so you are not alone in this.
During pregnancy, more than ever a woman should have a healthy and balanced diet . Over half of pregnant women, there was a marked stimulation of appetite, which usually starts at the beginning of the second quarter and held until the end of pregnancy, sometimes dim
inishing in recent months.
The frequent changes in tastes found at pregnant women, is the preference for fruit, pickles, salted foods, spices
The key to proper nutrition during pregnancy is balance and variety. Healthy diet should include foods from all food groups: fruits, vegetables, cereals, meat, dairy. It is preferred the dining in small amounts but more than once a day, only a few tables and rich, because in this way relieves nausea and characteristic early pregnancy and avoid over nutrition.
The consumption per day should include:
1. Cereal: 8 servings ( a slice of whole wheat bread, one cup of cereal, half cup of pasta or rice)
2. Vegetables: 4 or more servings (two links of carrots, a cup of shredded vegetables, one cup of cooked broccoli or cauliflower)
3. Fruits: 2-4 servings (a small apple, orange, pear or banana or a cup of raisins)
4. Dairy: 3 servings (250-300 ml of milk or yogurt or a 50 g of cheese)
5. Pork, beef, chicken or fish, eggs, nuts or seeds: 2-3 servings (beef or pork ,cooked poultry or seafood).
6. Fats, oils and sweets: very little
FOOD NOT recommended in pregnancy
1. Meat: pork, beef, chicken, fish and eggs or insufficiently cooked or raw.
2. Fast food
3. Swordfish, shark, catfish, mackerel, tuna. Disadvantaged are of methyl-mercury, a harmful metal increases brain and nervous system of the child.
4. Un pasteurized milk
5. Some types of milk and cheeses such as feta cheese, brie, Roquefort, etc..;
6. Pasta, canned meat or refreeze.
7. Un pasteurized juices
8. Vegetables picked green
9. Herbal nutritional supplements
10. Non-drinking water or untested.
11. Foods that contain peanuts, strawberries etc.
12. Alcohol, smoking, drugs
Pregnancy is a delicate time for your body. Because hormones and their action is intense, the skin suffers. Do not be overwhelmed by worry and do not let you say that you are the mother and doesn’t matter how you look. It is a totally wrong idea. Although some beauty gestures are prohibited, such epilating with wax and dyeing hair, you must not neglect the way you look. Find out how you can prevent certain beauty problems that occur during pregnancy.
Careful, sensitive skin! 
During pregnancy, skin becomes more sensitive, so you have to use mild soap and cleaning products that do not contain soda. Dermatologists usually recommend to replace soap and bubble bath liquid soap, with shower gel and lavender oil. You will clean the skin without an aggressive action .
To enhance the benefits of hygiene and mild products to prevent redness and irritation, generously apply lotion daily to the body, from head to toe. Choose those hypoallergenic body care products. You can buy from the pharmacy products for sensitive skin.
The hair.
If your hair is dry and is easy to split peaks, you should use a light shampoo indicated for sensitive hair and conditioner with regenerative action. Attention! Do not brush too often or too vigorously, because Emphasize damage. Avoid using too often hair dryer, electric hair curlers, apparatus of tension or wavy hair. Try not to apply generally very hot air near the head. Dry or damaged hair should be dried naturally. To prevent the occurrence or aggravation of problems, diet is important. It must be assumed daily consumption of foods rich in protein, carotene, essential fatty acids, iron, silicon, zinc, vitamin B (biotin), C and E.
Beautiful and healthy nails
Also during pregnancy, you can find some problem with the nail.
It happens that they become thin, brittle, to puff, to crack or to break more easily than usual.
For the nails to keep them beautiful and healthy, you must increase the intake of vitamin A, drinking carrot juice and eating more eggs, milk and liver. You have to consume three servings of fatty fish a week and possibly a fish oil supplement for omega-3 fatty acid.