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Month3

How your baby has grown

Height: approx. 9cm / Weight: approx. 20g

The embryonic period ends and the prenatal period starts at 10 weeks into pregnancy.

Your baby’s fingers and toes can be differentiated, and the ears grow. Under the facial skin, the protuberant areas of the eyelids, lips, lower jaw and cheeks develop to show a basic facial structure. At the end of the 12th week into pregnancy, your baby starts to move the arms and legs, the tail is gone and the head, body and limbs become distinctive in their own way. Body hair in the hair follicle grows to create lanugo while every internal organ develops and the circulatory organs and internal organs start to move actively.

How your baby's body changes

① Your uterus grows to the size of a fist. Your uterus is still in your pelvis and your abdomen is yet to expand. However, you can certainly feel your enlarged uterus when touching the pubis. The growing uterus pressures the bladder and the rectum to make you urinate more often. You may feel your lower abdomen tighter or pain in your back.

② Discharges increase due to an increased metabolism. As your metabolism increases, the blood circulation within the pelvis quickens. Pale white discharges that smell sourish increase and the color of the external genitals changes significantly.

③ Morning sickness subdues and you start to feel comfortable. At 12 weeks into your pregnancy, the severity of the morning sickness subdues and you gain appetite again.

Health Checkpoint

To distinguish the difference between an urge to urinate more and cystitis, your ovary becomes larger to sustain your pregnancy and the enlarging uterus presses the bladder, narrowing the room. Thus, you feel an urge to urinate more often even when a little amount of urine fills up. As you urinate small amounts more frequently, you don’t feel refreshed enough and keep going back and forth from the restroom. You might become concerned about ‘cystitis,’ but if that is the case, it accompanies pain, fever and, even worse, hematuria. Cystitis is easily curable at an early stage.

What You Should Do

① Extra care is required as a miscarriage may occur. Long-distance trips should be avoided and, if inevitable, you should take a rest and stretch yourself once every 30 to 40 minutes. It is a rule of thumb that you don’t engage in physically demanding work or exercise, not to mention riding on a bicycle or motorcycle, holding heavy luggage, wiping while squatting and pressing your lower abdomen by bending forward.

② Take nutritionally-balanced meals. Nutrition is one of the most important parts during pregnancy. More importantly, you need to keep a nutritional balance in your diet. Develop a habit of regular bowel movements and eat food rich in fiber.

③Sex life during pregnancy You don’t need to be too concerned about enjoying a sex life. Still, there are rules during pregnancy. Deep genital insertion should be avoided and you must stop it immediately and take a rest if you feel pain in your lower abdomen and see blood.

Month2

How your baby has grown

Height: approx. 2cm/Weight: 0.4g pict: ( Eye, Arm, Elbow, Liver)

① You can hear your baby’s heartbeat. At about 5 weeks into pregnancy, an ultrasound exam detects your gestational sac. At 5.5 weeks to 6 weeks into pregnancy, an ultrasound exam can detect your baby’s heart beating. If no heartbeats are detected in the ultrasound exam, try again in a week.

② Basic human features start to form. A head takes up a half of its entire body. Your baby’s head and body can be distinguished; head, body, arms and legs start to take form. The brain growth quickens substantially. 80% of the brain and neurons are divided during this period. Your baby’s fingers and toes form and, eyes, nose, ears and mouth become bigger, yet vaguely. It is still early to confirm its sex; still, growth of the ovary and testicles is indicated. Your baby floats around in the amniotic fluid.

How your baby's body changes

Normal symptoms you would expect in the first trimester:
① The size of your uterus becomes the size of a duck egg and vaginal discharges increase.
② You feel more slow, drowsy, and gets easily tired. You may feel unstable in your emotions and occasional bouts of fit may occur.
③ Your breasts become larger, harder and heavier.
④ Progesterone curbs the movement of your bowels, causing constipation while your bladder is pressured to urinate more often.
⑤ You start to feel nauseous. You may even vomit a little, experience appetite loss, or change your preferences in foods. This varies greatly in each mother that some show such symptoms very early in the stage while others don’t even have such symptoms at all.

Health Checkpoint

① Once pregnancy is confirmed, get regular examinations. You need to check the growth of your baby and your own health condition through regular monthly checkups before delivery. Such regular monthly checkups before delivering a healthy baby and numerous tests are referred to as ‘prenatal care,’ which should start 2 months into pregnancy.
At every visit to the hospital, you have your blood pressure and weight measured and will go through a urine protein test (20 weeks into pregnancy in most cases). You will receive this test once a month until the 7th month (28 weeks), once every two weeks until the 8th to 9th month into pregnancy, and once a week in the 10th month (36 weeks) into pregnancy.

② Due Date Calculation There is no set period for a baby to stay in your body and the exact date of fertilization is hard to track. Therefore, the delivery date may differ from the scheduled date. Mostly, however, 280 days from the first day of the last period, by calculating 4 weeks (28 days) as a month, which gives 10 months (40 weeks) as the entire pregnancy period. The following is the calculation method for the last period date so as to calculate the due date with more accuracy and ease on your own.

▪ Calculation Based on the Last Period Date Deduct 3 from the numerical month when your last period ended. If the numerical month is too short to deduct 3 (say your last period ended in January or February), add 9 to it instead and that number is the very month when your baby is due. And then, add 7 to the first date of your last period and the resulting number is your expected due date.

Formula 1) If the starting date of your last period was December 5th. 12 - 3 = 9 / 5 + 7 = 12 This makes your due date September 12th

Formula 1) If the starting date of your last period was January 1st. 1 + 9 = 10 / 1 + 7 = 8 This makes your due date October 8th.

What You Should Do

① Consume plenty of protein and calcium.
It is a rule of thumb to take a nutritionally balanced meal. In addition, this period is when your baby starts to take human form and the number of brain cells increase significantly. Thus, you should eat food rich of calcium (milk, cheese, powdered skim milk, tofu, mushroom, anchovy, beans, beef, fish, etc.) Also, you need to eat food rich in water and fiber to prevent constipation. You should also eat vegetables and fruits that are rich in vitamins as various types of minerals may get deficient due to a loss of appetite and morning sickness.

② Manage your stress wisely.
The risk of a miscarriage increases during the first trimester. Extreme stress may cause a miscarriage or stillbirth, so you must be careful at all time. Your stress level may surge due to severe morning sickness. It is recommended that you try to change your mood and your surroundings to improve your mood. Get out of the house and enjoy watching movies or pictures and change your mood with a brisk walk.

③ Sleep and rest are needed.
You should try to avoid overworking, long-distance trips, and excessive workouts. It is a period when you become easily tired and feel like doing nothing. Still, it is always better to move your body a little within your comfort area, rather than lie down all day, to upbeat your mood, facilitate your digestion and reduce morning sickness. Nonetheless, activities that should be avoided are going up and down stairs with heavy luggage, walking for a long time, riding a bicycle or bus where you get shaken a lot. Not only direct smoking, but also secondhand smoke is a big no-no for a pregnant woman.

Month1

How your baby has grown

Height: 0.2cm / Weight: 0.4g

① The moment when the sperm and egg unite in one of your fallopian tubes and succeed in fertilization, a new life is born. The fertilized egg moves through the Fallopian tubes and repeats the cell division. This is called an embryonic period. The egg is being implanted on the uterus wall in 7 to 10 days to gradually grow.

② Your baby has yet to take a human form. 5 days after the implantation, the neural tubes that become the spinal cord, and tissues that will form a body’s main organs such as the heart, blood vessels, muscles and internal organs are created sequentially. Your baby's delicate skin is now protected by soft and tender cilia tissues, which absorb the accumulated nutrition in the uterus membrane and transfer it to your baby. This becomes the basis of the placenta.

How your baby's body changes

You feel almost nothing.
If your period cycle is 28 days, the egg discharged from the ovary during an ovulatory phase, which is 14 days after the first day of your last period, unites with the sperm in one of your fallopian tubes to fertilize. In this period, the implantation is yet to occur and you rarely feel a change in your body. Despite their being no external changes, however, some sensitive women may show symptoms similar to a cold from which they feel chilly, feverish or a bit drowsy.

Health Checkpoint

① Detect your pregnancy at home with a home pregnancy test kit. When it comes to pregnancy detection, the sooner the better so that you can be more cautious in your physical movements. Buy a pregnancy test kit from a pharmacy nearby to take a pregnancy test at home.
A pregnancy test kit works by testing the pregnancy hormone hCG, which is discharged in urine when pregnant. Drop the first urine in the morning onto the stick-type reagent to check if you are pregnant or not. Although it is testable 7 days after fertilization, the concentration of hormones varies in people and you may test negative if your pregnancy is in the earliest stage.

② Unless your period starts a week after your normal starting date, go see a doctor. If your period does not start and you feel like your body and mind scream ‘pregnant,’ you should go and see an obstetrician to be examined accurately. Before you go to the hospital, make sure to bring your health insurance card and wear a top and bottom just in case for an internal examination. Wearing a long skirt rather than pants is recommended. It is advised that you make a note of the starting date of your last period, intervals, temperature changes, and medication details if you take an effective diagnosis within a short period of time.

What You Should Do

① Eat regularly. The nutrition and oxygen that are needed for a baby during this period come from the mother. For your baby’s sake, you should be more cautious about what and how you eat. Eat three regular meals for your own health and your baby’s normal growth.

② Avoid crowded places. Avoid places like department stores and movie theaters to prevent yourself from being infected with influenza or rubella virus. Consider not taking public transportation during rush hour if you are a stay-at-home mom.

③ Always put pregnancy first. You may accidentally expose yourself to risky environments as you may not know that you are pregnant. Similarly, if you plan to be pregnant, avoid taking medications, X-ray examinations and CT scans after the date of the ovulation day until the next expected date.

임신초기 영양관리

-부적절한 식습관을 개선해야한다.

임신초기는 태아의 뇌와 장기가 만들어지는 시기로 임산부가 섭취하는 음식은 아기의 몸과 마음의 건강 똑똑한 두뇌를 만드는 데 결정적인 역할을 합니다. 건강한 출산을 위해 기존 부적절한 식습관부터 개선하는것이좋다

[인스턴트 식품 화학조미료 방부제들이 다량함유된 식품 멀리하기]

-태아의 정상적인 발달에 꼭 필요한 아연 엽산 섭취!

엽산과 아연은 태아의 심장과 각 기관을 만드는 데 없어서는 안 될 영양소이며 태아의 세포 분열과 적혈구 혈성을 돕는 역할을 합니다.

특히 엽산은 임산부의 빈혈을 예방하고 태아의 신결과 결손 기형을 예방합니다.

       아연은 근육을 유연하게 하고 혈당 수치를 안정시키는 작용을 하여 임산부의 컨디션 유지에 도움을 준다.

아연이많은 식품 [굴/모시조개/대합/청어등 어패류,달걀현미등]

엽산이많은 식품 [달걀 노른자/단호박/녹활색 야채/팥/호밀빵] 

-유산 방지를 위해 비타민E충분히섭취하기

비타민E함유 [아몬드/밀배아/달걀/대두/브로콜리 등]

-단백질과 칼슘 충분히섭취하기

태아의 두뇌 발달과 근육형성에 필요한영양소 부족하게되면 태아골격형성에 이상이 생길 수 있다.

우유/치즈/탈지분유/두부/버섯/멸치/콩/쇠고기/생선등 충분히 섭취하고 비타민D같이섭취하면

칼슘의 체내흡수율이 높아짐

-비타민 B군 섭취하여 입덧과 불안한 마음 잡기!

입덧원인은 밝혀진게없지만 태반의 호르몬여향으로 추측

비타민B6 - 녹황색야채/대두     [ 구토가라앉혀준다 ]

비타민B12 - 돼지고기/소고기/어패류 [신경 안정효과 ]

 임신 초기는 입덧 빈뇨등 증상들이 나타나면서 임신적을 기간입니다.

수정란이 자궁에 착상하는동안 불완전한 시기로 유산의 위엄이 높아 

많은 주의가 필요해욤

-유산의 징후가 발생하지 않도록 주의!

임신 5주차는 초음파검사로 자궁 내의 임신낭[태낭]관차라 가능 주수에비해 크기가작거나 모양이 다른경우 유산징후 의심해보고 출혈 여부도 살펴봐야 함

일상생활에 신경을 잘써야하며 당분간 집안일은 배우자도움박고 안정을취하고 성생활도 자제~해야해요

-스트레스 관리 필요

극심한 스트레스가 유산유발가능성있음

임신초기 입덧으로 스트레스가 심한시기로 기분이나 분위기를 바꾸면 입것 증상이 조금 나아지는 경향도있음

집에만있기보다는 영화/그림/가벼운산책[평지] 기분전환 하는게좋습니다. 입덧은 정신적인 영향을 받으므로 5각을 자극하는 취미 생활 찾아보는것도 좋습니다.

-부부관계는 잠시 자제해 주세염

임신 12주 정도까지는 태아가 안전하게 자궁벽에 착상할 수 있도록 자제 하는것이 좋아요.

이시기에 과도한 성관계는 유산의 원인이 될 수 있습니다.

-무리한 활동은 NONO~

가사 일은 평소대로해도 지장없으나 배에 압박을 가하면 안되요~과격한 행동은 NONO

-사람 많은곳 피하세요

감기나 기타 바이러스 감염을 피하기 위해서 잦은 백화점 영화관 출입자제~ 교통이 혼잡할때 대중교통은 삼가하는것이 좋아요.

-사우나/열탈 목욕등 고온에 노출안되게 주의!

임신 3주이내에 고열에 시달리거나 사우나 뜨거운 목욕등 노출되면 유전자변형을 일으킬 우려가있어요

-몸이 차가워지면 안되요~

아랫배가 차가워지면 자궁 수축이 일어날 가능성이있어요 이로인해 태반의 착상이 불완전하게되어서

태반이 나올 위험이 있어요 

-미끄러지지 않도록 주의하세요.

굽낮은 신발을 이용하세요~ 천천히다니고~

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10개월의 임신기간 동안 엄마와 태아한테 많은 변화가 나타납니다.

임신기간동안 어던 변화가 나타나는지 알아두면 이시기를 잘보낼수 있겠지욤~? :D