At this time the child is very active. Sometimes a doctor recommends that pregnant women every day for some time to consider the bumps and knocks a child. Be sure to tell your doctor if you notice that the child has become less active. At the end of the third trimester, when the uterus is very little free space, decrease in activity occurs naturally, but the Twenty-ninth week of pregnancy - an active movement of the baby.
Child
Now your baby weighs about 1, 1 kg, and the length of his body - 38-40 cm. His muscles and lungs continue to develop, and his head is getting bigger to make room for the growing brain. To meet the growing needs of its small organism, you need to eat a lot of protein, vitamin C, folic acid and iron. In addition, because it takes a lot of bone calcium, do not forget to drink milk every day and / or eating dairy products. In the third trimester of bone child absorb about 250 mg of calcium daily, so that the skeleton becomes more durable.
Expectant mother
These pregnancy symptoms like heartburn and constipation, in this period are shown in full force. One of the female sex hormone progesterone
Progesterone - norm and pathology
It relaxes the muscle tissue throughout the body, including the gastrointestinal tract. This, and the fact that the internal organs becomes crowded due to increasing uterine slows down the digestive process and, as a consequence, to constipation. Another consequence of the activity of progesterone are heartburn and flatulence. Regular exercise and eating enough fiber to help ease some of these symptoms.
Increasing the size and weight of the uterus may also contribute to the development of hemorrhoids. This disorder is quite common in pregnant women, but, fortunately, is usually held in the first weeks after birth.
To alleviate the symptoms of hemorrhoids, do not sit and do not spend a lot of time on their feet in a row and make a cold compress decoction of witch hazel.
When the symptoms of hemorrhoids ask your doctor to recommend a safe remedy to relieve your condition.
Question of the week: breastfeeding
In the 29th week of pregnancy already need to think about how you feed your baby. The mixtures for artificial feeding are constantly being improved, but experts unanimously say that the absence of contraindications for the child there is nothing more useful than breast milk. It provides the child not only the perfect combination of fats, proteins and nutrients, and antibodies, which provide him protection from various diseases.
However, breast-feeding is beneficial not only for the child. When a woman breastfeeds, her body produces the hormone oxytocin, which causes uterine contractions. Due to this the uterus is reduced to its former size. At first, these cuts can be painful.
In addition, breastfeeding body needs calories. The body uses to produce milk fat, so you will lose gained during pregnancy weight.
Finally, breastfeeding creates a strong bond between mother and child. Some experts say that children who breastfeed in the future are less prone to various mental disorders than those who are fed infant formula
What is the status of women in the 29th week of pregnancy
Important in this period for a woman - constant monitoring of their condition and good spirits. The latter is particularly important as the mother's mood instantly transferred to the child. The kid has a lot understands the fear, anxiety or depression
Depression - a little more than a bad mood
Mom makes him shrink in horror. Therefore, a woman should possibly more fun and engage in pleasant (but certainly also useful!) Things. A major benefit activities at the pregnant woman at this time - it's your own health and well-being.
The belly is growing, and with it, some women are increasing problems with the gastrointestinal tract - heartburn, belching
Belching: why it happens and that means
Constipation, pain along the stomach and intestines. Most women have learned to deal with all of this, however, the problem persists. To reduce heartburn, try not to eat fatty and acidic foods, coffee, sweets and baking (all of which, incidentally, is not useful for pregnancy), be sure to eat breakfast sleeping in a slightly elevated position and walk after dinner at least half an hour. A bout of heartburn can be removed by drinking some milk.
Growing shortness of breath, frequent urination occurs - the baby presses on your bladder. May enhance dizziness and even fainting occur - is the result of violation of venous circulation and reduce blood pressure. There are such fainting usually supine, so if you notice this phenomenon, relax and sleep better at his side.
At full capacity, the kidneys work of pregnant women who have to remove the body of metabolic products of mother and child and the excess fluid
How to withdraw excess fluid from the body - all sorts of ways
- This is a very big load, and sometimes they can not cope with it, especially if the woman is suffering from some chronic kidney disease. Therefore, kidney function is checked and if it is broken, shall be appointed an additional examination and treatment.
Continue to increase the breast, the nipple can be released from colostrum - almost transparent viscous liquid. Isolation of colostrum takes place under the action of the hormone prolactin, which produces the pituitary gland (the main endocrine gland located in the brain).
As a child develops in the 29th week of pregnancy
The length of the baby reaches 37-38 cm, and weight - 1100-1300 was so much weight does not allow the baby to move as briskly as before, and it takes a certain position in the uterus, but smashes his mother in the stomach arms and legs - it becomes already noticeable to the eye. Most often his head is down, turned back to the front wall of the abdomen and legs bent at the hips, and crossed. But sometimes the child is located down the buttocks or legs. In rare cases, abnormal fetal position - or oblique cross. But in the 29th week of pregnancy, it usually does not cause anxiety - the child is still often changes his position completely turning over in the uterus.
The child thickens the skin, subcutaneous fat is gradually increasing, growing hairs and nails. At this time he also actively developing cerebral cortex, improving the senses. Development of hearing child may have to do my mother. To do this with a child often need to gently talk to him sing cheerful songs include music. Music should not be bravura (it may scare the kid) - only light and melodious. The pope, too, can take part in these sessions - beautifully child hears him. In connection with the development of the central nervous system of the child gradually begins to operate its own system of thermoregulation.
Well the kidneys work and the entire urinary system of the fetus, he daily highlights in the amniotic fluid of about 500 ml of urine. Already functioning immune system - produced by special cells that are responsible for immunity. And from the mother he gets ready to antibodies that protect him from many diseases transferred mom.
The fruit begins to help the body in the mother's hormone production. So, in his adrenal glands formed the male sex hormone testosterone, which is converted in the placenta into the female sex hormone estrogen, so necessary for the further development of the pregnancy.
The fruit every day is becoming more mature. But mom and dad is not any fruit, and a small son or daughter, they've come up with a name for it, and build long-term plans for the future.
Galina Romanenko
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