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You

If you earlier felt the movements of your baby very lightly, now new mothers are feeling them quite clearly. If the movements of the fetus are not felt yet, you might not worry, as the placenta could locate on the front wall of the uterus and aggravate the feeling of the fetal movements. You could have varicose veins, especially when your other family members have had these. The regular training and lifting of your legs and feet help. You can maybe see more skin-deep blood vessels. There is no reason to worry, the situation recovers after the birth of your child.

Some oedema could occur on your fingers and ankles. During pregnancy your body includes larger quantity of blood and this causes the leakage of liquid from capillaries. The liquid accumulates to some tissues around your fingers and ankles and causes the occurrence of oedema. Your midwife controls during the pre-birth visits whether you have oedemas and you should turn to the doctor, if the oedema appears suddenly, will not disappear by the morning or if you have headaches, eyesight disorders, subcostal pain, decrease in need of urination. These are the symptoms indicating the beginning of pre-eclampsia – this is potentially life-threatening complication which has an impact on you and your baby.

 

Your baby

Your baby is now about 21-22 cm tall and weighs about 300-350 g. Its movements become more vigorous which should be felt also by new mothers. The heart of the baby beats about 120-160 times in a minute. The ears have developed and it can hear the voices of your body. The nails have grown on the fingers and toes. The baby swallows amniotic fluid, by contributing thus to the formation of the digestive system. The fetus is also practising breathing, but its lungs are not fully developed and it could not cope with breathing outside the uterus.

 

What to do?

Eat iron-rich food. In addition to your increased blood quantity iron is also spent on growing of the child and placenta. The iron-rich food includes red meat and poultry meat, lenses and other legumes, spinach, cereals enriched with iron and fish.

 

If you have not done it yet, now is the time for screening of fetal developmental abnormalities. It is also possible to assess the risk of preeclampsia or premature birth during the ultrasound examination if desired.

 

If the doubt has incurred for the congenital fetal heart failure or brain pathology in the course of screening of fetal developmental abnormalities in the public hospital, you might be interested in the echocardiography of the fetal heart or fetal neurosonogram. If any development abnormality of the fetus has been found and you wish a second opinion, you might be interested in our second opinion in case of fetal developmental abnormalities.