At the thirty third week of pregnancy, many women still feel increased libido. Their partners may worry about it, but for most women, sex during pregnancy is useful, or at least not harmful, until the withdrawal of amniotic fluid.

Kid

This week, your baby weighs a little more than 2 kg, and its growth is already about 43 cm. Its skeleton is more solid, growing under the skin fat layer, and it is becoming less like little shrunken alien. The skull is partly soft, so that the child will be easier to pass through the birth canal. (Pressure on the head during birth is so strong that if the skull was completely solid, the process would have been much more traumatic for the child and for the mother). In fact, no skull bone heals completely until early adulthood - is necessary, because the brain and other tissues continue to actively grow within a few years of life after birth.

The more space in the stomach takes the child, the greater the change of your bodily sensations. Find the position in which it would be comfortable to sit, much less sleep is becoming more difficult. Many mothers in the 33rd week of pregnancy had a hard time ustaivayte in a chair and hands and placed between a table and a chair.

From time to time you may feel mild pain, and even numbness in the fingers, wrists and arms. This occurs when, due to slow metabolism in many tissues of the body fluid stagnates; increasing at a rate of cloth pinched nerves, causing numbness, tingling, burning or dull pain. If you do a lot of typing or other work hands as often as possible, try to take a break and do a little warm-up for the hands and fingers. Fortunately, postpartum hormone levels to normal and the symptoms disappear.

Question of the week: How to follow the movements of the baby

In this period the child should move as often as he moved in last month. Every child moves in the womb of his own, and the right frequency and intensity there.

Typically, physicians recommend after 28-weeks of once or twice a day to observe the movement of your baby. There are many different ways to do this, but there is a general rule of thumb is tedious to select the time of day when your baby is most active.

Find a quiet place where you will not be distracted. Remember how much time you want that child to feel ten movements: kicks legs, jerking movements all over - in short, any movement. You have to feel at least ten movements within two hours. (Do not worry, it usually does not take much time. Sometimes ten movements can be locked in for ten minutes or less.) If you do not have counted ten movements within two hours, immediately contact your doctor.

You are pregnant and a half months and most likely already know about it. In addition, there drowsiness, irritability Irritability - you try to control my temper   and sharpened all the senses. It changes your attitude to almost all the people around, objects and phenomena: what used to be annoyed and began to draw, on the contrary, favorite foods and smells began to sicken.

The state of health of women during the second week of pregnancy

Six weeks - enough time to get used to his new position. It is more difficult to get up in the morning, the mood is very changeable, sometimes rolls irritability, which can not be stopped now, and colleagues noticed that something was wrong. It varies the taste, smell intensifies, there are short-term dizziness and fainting. Breast cancer continues to increase and nagrubat.

Often it is in the 6th week of pregnancy, the first signs of early toxicity. Early called toxemia, which began before the 20th week of pregnancy and is manifested disorders of the digestive system. There are many theories of early toxicity pregnant. Currently, it is regarded as a consequence of a violation of the neuroendocrine regulation of metabolism Metabolism: The basis of life of all living things .

Manifestations of early toxemia of pregnancy are nausea, salivation, vomiting, convulsive twitching of facial muscles and upper limbs.

Often a sign of toxicity is the nausea, she worried almost all women. Sometimes vomiting, but if it happens several times a day, and the woman at the same time losing weight, you should consult your doctor, because the body loses fluid and mineral salts, which further exacerbates the metabolic disorder.

Often accompanied by vomiting pregnant drooling, but sometimes it happens and self-expression of toxemia of pregnancy. In marked salivation loss of saliva per day can exceed liter. Profuse salivation depresses the mind of a pregnant woman leads to dehydration and loss of protein. If vomiting and drooling strong, then you need to see a doctor.

If the manifestation of toxicity is not too pronounced, try to drink more fluids (not very sweet fruit drinks, fruit drinks, fruit juices, weak tea or coffee, clean drinking water) - together with the liquid removed from the body of toxic metabolic products. The food is better to take small meals more often. The dishes should be boiled, stewed or steamed - such food is less irritating to the gastrointestinal tract. Exclude sharp, salty, smoked and fatty dishes. It is better to eat more vegetables and fruits. To reduce nausea, you can suck on a small piece of lemon.

A pregnant woman should get plenty of rest: night's sleep Dreams: how to understand our dreams   at least 8 hours, freedom from severe physical and mental exertion, frequent walking outdoors in the shade of the trees.

Condition of the fetus during the sixth week of pregnancy

At the sixth week of pregnancy, the weight of the embryo is about 2 grams, a length of about 4 mm, and the volume of amniotic fluid - 3 ml. But it is not only increasing in weight and volume, but also developing. One can clearly see the head (very big, it's a real tadpole), which have eyes and mouth, limb buds appear, there is a small tail, gill slits. From the middle germ layer (mesoderm) gradually develop muscle, and from the inner germ layer (endoderm) are formed respiratory system and blood circulation. In an embryo already has a heart, but it has double chamber and not the quad, so the blood circulation is not in full force. Laid and start to develop digestive organs (stomach, pancreas Diabetes and pancreas - the things you need to know , Liver), kidney and urinary tract, endocrine glands.

Continues to develop the child's nervous system. In the brain hemispheres begin to form with the first gyri and sulci formed and spinal cord extending from a nerve nodes and spinal nerves.

At the sixth week of fetal development in a place fit the outer shell to the wall of the uterus begins to form the placenta - the villi grow deep in the shell wall of the uterus and grow blood vessels. In other places the outer shell villi (chorionic villus sampling) disappear and it becomes smooth. At this time, nutrients that were inside the fertilized egg, are becoming smaller.

If you are not yet registered at the women's clinic, then now is the time. Since you can consult your doctor about your condition and tell all your fears and doubts (most of them are immediately dispelled). Do not pull from putting on record, because it makes sure that you and your child will be fine.

Galina Romanenko