What should I prepare before giving birth? What kind of check-ups should I have before giving birth?

The tension before delivery is caused by the fear and unfamiliarity of giving birth. If you understand it in advance and do these things before delivery, you will be halfway to success.

What preparations should be made before childbirth

As the due date approaches, you'd better prepare some materials for the delivery in the hospital in advance, such as replacement underwear, panties, and extended and widened sanitary napkins, or sanitary napkins with medicine. You should also prepare some eggs, brown sugar, chocolate (to eat during delivery), washbasins and washing utensils. In addition, you should also prepare baby products. Many hospitals are equipped with clothes, bedding and diapers for babies. You'd better ask the hospital where you plan to deliver to avoid duplication. During the hospitalization, the baby needs 1 to 2 sets of bedding, 2 to 4 knitted shirts, 2 nightgowns, 2 small handkerchiefs and small towels, a washbasin, a bottle of talcum powder, baby milk, disposable diapers, etc. The clothes prepared for the baby should be pure cotton, loose in style, and easy to put on and take off. There should be no buttons or hidden buttons on the back and underarms of the clothes, and clothes without collars are better.

When you go to the hospital, you also need to bring a deposit for hospitalization, a pregnancy checkup record book, and an ID card. Put the hospital items together so that you can take them to the hospital at any time. When waiting for delivery, you should pay attention to cleaning yourself every day, getting enough rest, and accumulating physical strength. Don't walk too far alone to avoid accidents. Sexual intercourse is strictly prohibited to avoid premature birth or postpartum infection. The vast majority of pregnant women give birth within two weeks before and after the due date. When you have regular abdominal pain, and the intervals are getting shorter and shorter, and the pain time is prolonged, it indicates that you are about to give birth. A small amount of bloody mucus discharged from the vagina, that is, "seeing blood", or water rupture, that is, the amniotic sac in the uterus ruptures and amniotic fluid flows out, is also a reliable sign of labor. In addition, you must be fully prepared for the pain of labor. Labor is a natural physiological phenomenon, and labor pain is physiological pain, which most people can bear. However, you must go through a period of severe pain during childbirth. If you are not fully prepared, you will be overwhelmed by unexpected pain.

Taboos before childbirth

Fear

Many pregnant women are afraid of childbirth due to lack of physiological knowledge about childbirth. This psychological state not only affects the diet and sleep of pregnant women before childbirth, but also prevents the body from quickly entering the best state of waiting for childbirth, thus affecting normal childbirth. Pregnant women should realize that under modern medical conditions, if they can conduct prenatal examinations seriously, the safety of childbirth is almost 100%.

Avoid haste

Some pregnant women are impatient about childbirth and get anxious before the due date. In fact, the due date has a range of variation. It is normal to be 10 days earlier or later, so there is no need to worry.

Avoid being careless

Many pregnant women are careless and careless, and they still don't take it seriously until the end of pregnancy. Due to insufficient preparation, they are often in a hurry when giving birth, which makes it easy to make mistakes.

Avoid being tired

Refers to physical or mental overwork. In the late stages of pregnancy, pregnant women should reduce their activity and work intensity appropriately. They should pay special attention to rest and conserve their energy so that they can be energetic during childbirth. The correct approach is to reduce activity appropriately about half a month before delivery and do some lighter activities. It is best not to work or labor 5-7 days before the expected date of delivery, but just take a proper walk.

Avoid laziness

It is also not good to rest too much before delivery. A survey shows that if the mother rests too long before delivery and does not move enough, it is easy to have a difficult delivery. Therefore, you should not be too lazy in the late pregnancy, nor stay in bed for a long time.

Avoid hunger

Childbirth consumes a lot of physical energy, so mothers should eat well and eat well when they are about to give birth, and avoid not eating anything. Family members should do everything they can to make mothers eat nutritious and easy-to-digest food.

Avoid traveling far

Generally, women should not travel far in the first half month before their due date, especially not by car or boat, so as to avoid accidental delivery in the car or boat.

What tests should be done in late pregnancy

Prenatal check-ups are done every 2 weeks in the third trimester and once a week in the last month. If there are obstetric complications, prenatal check-ups are required at least once a week. Prenatal check-ups in the third trimester include:

Routine examination

Routine examination items in the third trimester include: weight, blood pressure, uterine height, abdominal circumference, edema examination, and fetal heart Doppler auscultation. Weight is a must-measure item for every pregnancy checkup. The weight of the pregnant mother can indirectly detect the growth of the fetus. Blood pressure is a must-measure item for every pregnancy checkup. High blood pressure is one of the symptoms of pregnancy-induced hypertension. It usually occurs after 20 weeks and will affect the development and growth of the fetus. Therefore, blood pressure should be measured every time you check to see if there is an increase in basic blood pressure. The uterine height and abdominal circumference of the pregnant mother are closely related to the size of the fetus. By measuring the uterine height and abdominal circumference in the third trimester, the weight of the fetus can be estimated. Therefore, the uterine height and abdominal circumference should be measured every time you do a prenatal checkup to estimate the intrauterine development of the fetus. At the same time, according to the uterine height pregnancy chart curve, the intrauterine development of the fetus can be understood, whether it is developmentally delayed or macrosomia. After pregnancy, especially after 20 to 24 weeks of pregnancy, due to the increase in the size of the fetus and the increase in amniotic fluid, the compression of the uterine body on the blood vessels of the lower limbs causes poor blood return in the lower limbs, resulting in increased pulse pressure, and edema in the lower limbs is prone to occur. This is not a disease. However, edema is also a manifestation of pregnancy-induced hypertension, so it is necessary to distinguish whether it is edema during pregnancy or edema caused by pregnancy-induced hypertension.

Laboratory tests

Laboratory tests include: urine routine, blood routine (according to the doctor's advice). After entering the obstetrics department for examination, urine test is required for each examination. Check whether there is protein, sugar and ketone body in the urine, and check the red blood cells and white blood cells under the microscope, especially the protein test, which can indicate whether there is pregnancy-induced hypertension syndrome and other diseases. If there is a problem, it can be dealt with in time according to the situation. If there is hematuria, further examination is required to see if it is kidney stones, bladder stones, etc.

Testing

Auxiliary examinations include: pelvic examination, electrocardiogram, and B-ultrasound (around 36 weeks). Internal examination is also called vaginal examination, which is performed when the due date is approaching. It mainly examines the cervix, vagina, and vulva, from the outside to the inside, first looking at the vulva, then checking the vagina and cervix. The vaginal examination mainly checks whether there are condyloma, vascular dilatation, vaginal malformation, vaginal septum, vaginal septum, double vagina and other conditions related to delivery. The B-ultrasound examination in the late pregnancy mainly checks whether there is an umbilical cord around the neck septum, whether the blood flow of the umbilical cerebral artery is good, and determines the fetal position.

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