Menstrual Cycle

The period of fertility is quite long for a woman: with puberty, which begins on average at 13 years and menopause, which occurs around 51 years, it still represents 38 years and nearly 500 rounds of 28 days!

Starting the first day of your period and ending the first day of the next menstrual period, a cycle lasts an average of 28 days, but there are wide variations from one woman to another and for the same woman.

Regular cycles have a dependence of the good functioning ovarian, itself controlled by two small glands of the brain (the hypothalamus and pituitary), it takes little to disrupt the mechanism precision: most of the conditions endocrine, being anorexic, or obese and to a lesser extent, stress can affect the smooth running of the menstrual cycle. This explains why it happens to all women or almost, to have shorter cycles and other longer during their lives. At the time of puberty and before menopause, this irregularity is almost inevitable.

The 1st Week Of Pregnancy: 3 Weeks Of Amenorrhea

You

There is no indication yet that you are pregnant. The only physical change that may take place is the increased volume of your breasts.

Although some will have an instant impression of being pregnant, for others the day will resemble the previous one. Your uterus weighs is 50 grams and no weight gain is apparent.


Your baby

Your baby settled quietly. A few hours after fertilization of an egg by sperm, egg will begin to divide into two cells identical to eventually look like a small ripe.
The fertilized egg will descend the fallopian tubes to the uterus and will focus on the walls of the uterus.this is the phase of implantation. At this stage, the embryo is measuring only 0.1 mm.

First Pregnancy Test To Do

To find out if you are pregnant, pregnancy tests are your friend, they are practical and you must use them to obtain the most reliable possible result.

How does a pregnancy test work?

The pregnancy test can detect the presence of the human chorionic gonadotropin, or HCG hormone, secreted only in cases of pregnancy and can be detected about ten days after fertilization.

The test is easy to do, you must collect a small sample of clean, midstream urine in a sterile plastic cup and put a chemically prepared testing strips into the sample of urine and wait for the result displayed. If it is positive, a specific symbol will appear in the window reading (often a blue).If negative, you can do another test some time later because such a result does not confirm you’re not pregnant.


Moreover, if it is positive, you have a good chance of becoming pregnant because the test is reliable to 99%. To confirm the result, ask your doctor who will prescribe a blood test to confirm and date your pregnancy.

Expectant Mother, Take Care Of Your Plate!

Pregnancy is not a disease, but it is a biological and anatomical change that upsets the nutritional needs of the mother. In short, this is not the time to embark on a regime! And even less to eat or drink anything.

To begin with, outlaw alcohol! The role of the latter, even at very low dose, is now ample evidence in the appearance of Fetal alcohol syndrome. Which strikes each year in many developed countries where alcohol is consumed freely, more than 3 children on 1 000. Do not coffee: a maximum of 2 cups per day.

While you prepare for the happy event, it is essential that you adopt a diet "diversified, balanced and reasonable":

• Meat, fish, eggs provide protein and iron. They must consume daily.

• Dairy products, is calcium and protein. But they are also… fat. Eat out regularly but not abuse, and prefer products alleviated or skimmed.

• The slow sugars of starchy foods are the main "fuel" of the fetus. Eat-in at least once a day.

• Fruits and vegetables provide fast sugars, vitamins and minerals. Their fibers maintain intestinal transit. Five per day at least, as always…

• Fats finally are indispensable for your child brain devlopment, but also to the mother.

Again, this is not a reason to abuse: they should be well balanced and varied diet should meet your needs. Sure, however, the intakes of iodine, iron, folic acid (vitamin B9), calcium and vitamin D. When in doubt, talk with your doctor.

The Weight Of Newborn Linked To The Mother Before Pregnancy

The baby's weight at birth is more related to the weight of the mother before pregnancy as pounds taken during pregnancy, according to preliminary results of a study presented Tuesday Taking pounds is usually monitored during pregnancy to avoid having a baby too big and difficult childbirth.

"Taking weight during pregnancy has finally relatively little influence on the body of the baby at birth," says Marie-Aline Charles, director of research Inserm which coordinates the study EDEN.

"It was only from 15 kg (maternal weight gain) they begin to see an impact and more than 19 kg that has a clear influence on the weight of the baby," says she.
In fact, surprise, according to the researcher, is the importance of weight (body mass index) of the mother before conception. Thus, an obese woman before getting pregnant, might give birth to a baby too big (more than 4 kg term) and having a difficult childbirth.
In addition, during pregnancy, obese women take on average far fewer pounds than women scarce, according to the study.

The women were overweight or obese have an increased risk of diabetes and hypertension during pregnancy. This diabetes, usually transitory, may reappear, in your 50-60 years. As big baby, in case of gestational diabetes in the mother, he incur a risk of diabetes in adulthood.
In less than ten years, the weight of mothers has increased significantly in 1993, 14% of mothers weighed at least 70 kg in 2003, they were 21%.

Among women of high body mass, there is also an increased rate of hospitalization during pregnancy and caesarean section before or during labor (x 2). Newborns of obese mothers are more frequent and neonatal resuscitation.

EDEN The study involving about 2,000 mothers will follow about 1,500 children up to age 5. The record is for 2008-2011, according to officials who seek additional funding.
Driving with two medical teams maternity Poitiers and Nancy, the study examines many factors (nutrition, environment and psycho-social emotional, toxic ...) can play a role in the development and future health of the child .

Meanwhile, the small weight (particularly encouraged by maternal smoking) is associated with an increased risk in adulthood of hypertension, diabetes or cardiovascular disease.

Chances Of Getting Pregnant Fast

Some site claim that they will give you quick tips on how to get pregnant faster or tips to double your chance of getting pregnant fast, but in reality if you're in a normal healthy women there is two important factors that you should be careful about them. First it depends on you and your partner's level of fertility, then it come on what time of the month you're engaging in intercourse, this is really important because in this period the woman is fertile, also know as the ovulation period.

Women tend to ovulate mid-cycle; however, it is more accurate to say that they ovulate fourteen days before menstruation. Women have been known to ovulate at any time during their cycle, including during menstruation, although this is unusual. In terms of conception, fertility depends on three factors: a healthy egg, healthy sperm, and favorable cervical mucus. A woman ovulates once a cycle. The egg lives twelve to twenty-four hours and then disintegrates if not fertilized. Under favorable cervical mucusconditions (cervical mucus nourishes and guides the sperm, which would otherwise die in about a half-hour or never reach the egg), sperm can survive as long as five days within the body.

I will try to give you more information in my next post, but these two factors are really the more important for getting pregnant fast.

Your Diet May Influence Your Child Sex

British researchers at the Universities of Exeter and Oxford found that women with low-calorie diet including regular breakfasts, have more chance of having a girl. This studies show also that the child sex is influenced by the mother diet and that the more it is high-calorie, the more there is chance of having a boy.

In studying 740 first-time pregnancies, the researchers found 56 percent of women with high-calorie diets at the time of conception had boys, compared to 45 percent of women who had low-calorie diets. Women who had sons also were more likely to consume nutrients including potassium, calcium, and vitamins C, E, and B12, the researchers said.

So what do you prefer a Girl or a Boy? huh.. I think a have guessed: D

Getting Pregnant, Are You Serious About It ??

Getting pregnant can be very frustrating for some women and they will try everything to become pregnant like special vitamin, some type of diet, some type of exercise, every thing that they think will get them pregnant and some of these women can go further until they experience some false pregnancy symptoms. Doing it hardly is not the right way, but doing it wisely is it, i will always repeat this sentence " Keep thing natural and simple", there is no such a magical way or a fast track to get pregnant, some little patience :) .