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You

Your heart volume has increased and the rate of breathing and heartbeat has increased. Do not worry, this is normal. Your nose might be blocked, as its mucous membrane expands together with the rise in oestrogen level. Also, nose bleeding could occur from time to time. This might be due to the increased blood volume which expands the blood vessels in nose as well as cold or allergy. The child expectancy manipulates with immune system and makes you receptive to infections. Usually the stomach starts sticking out between weeks 14 and 20, so this is not strange when your pregnancy is not seen yet. The growing of stomach is individual and the new mother has the baby stomach developing later than the mothers who have already given birth.

 

Your baby

The baby is growing fast. Its legs are stretching longer than hands and the hands become more mobile as to elbows and legs as to knees. Although its eyes are closed, it perceives the external light. If you direct the light of the flashlight on to the stomach, it probably moves away from light. The cerebellum and backbone of the child have been formed. Its skin is very thin and blood veins are translucent. The sebiparous glands are developing and the hairs are covering the baby’s body. If your child has genes of dark hair, these start to produce dark pigment already now.

 

Dr. Marek Šois recommends

The studies have indicated that most of the pregnant feel reluctance to the smell or taste of some food. If you are disturbed by some healthy food recommended to the pregnant, do not torture yourself – you do not have to eat it. The necessary substances can be obtained also from elsewhere and your new taste preferences are not lasting forever.

 

If you are late for OSCAR test or the screening of chromosome-diseases performed in the public hospital indicated interim risk, you might be interested in integrated test for the assessment of chromosomal risk of fetus which can be carried out during pregnancy weeks 15-20. If the Triple test performed in the public hospital indicated increased risk for pathology of neural tube, you might be interested in ultrasound of pathology of fetal neutral tube.

 

Why is it important to know the existence of pathology of neural tube?

The pathology of neural tube is a severe development disorder, in case of which the fetus has either defect of cranium, defect of abdominal front wall or spinal hernia. The risk of defect of neural tube can be assessed based on the rise of concentration of hormonal marker AFP (α feto protein) elsewhere in the Estonian hospitals starting from pregnancy week 15. In case of pathology of neural tube AFP in the blood serum of the pregnant increases. If AFP is over 2 Mom, the pregnant is directed to the additional ultrasound test to assess the integrity of neural tube.