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The best time for a woman to have
a baby is in her early twenties.
At this age her body is fully grown and she attained
emotional and social maturity. As she grows older,
particularly once she is past her early thirties,
fertility normally tends to diminish. The probability
of having a baby decreases 3-5 % per year after the
age of 30, and at a faster rate after 40. Also she
is likely experience complications like abnormalities
such as the Down’s syndrome (Chromosome
abnormality) which is related to increasing
age.
The rate is 1 in 400 at the age of 35, and goes up
to 1 in 109 at the age of 40. When a woman is 45 the
risk is 1 in 32 (compared with 1 in 1,500 at 25).
Also woman in her 20s has only a 12-15% chance of
having a miscarriage; on the other
hand, a woman in her 40s faces a 50% risk of miscarriage.
Therefore it is not wise to delay a pregnancy without
specific reasons.
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becoming a mother a blood test can be done to check
whether you are immune to the disease. If you are not
immune, a vaccination may be taken for immunization.
But care should be taken not to get pregnant for the
following three months after immunizations.
Pregnancy is time of increased nutritional needs, both
to support the rapidly growing fetus and to allow for
the changes occurring in the expecting mother's body.
Take prenatal vitamins, in fact it’s
actually best to take the vitamins before finding out
you’re pregnant, though this is not always possible.
(Some women have difficulty in tolerating prenatal vitamins
or experience constipation as a result of the high iron
content.)
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Becoming pregnant is part of the real fulfillment of
marriage and is one of nature’s best gifts to
a woman. Your body and mind give clear indication of
pregnancy. Missing of your “monthly period”
is the first indication. Some woman may have a slight
feeling of nausea in the morning. Other physical changes
may include:
Tender and swollen breasts, colour change around the
nipples, extreme tiredness, urging to pass urine more
often, constipation, cravings or distaste for certain
foods, headache, heartburn, weight gain or loss and
so on.
To confirm you are pregnant or not, a pregnancy
test using one of several available test kits
may provide you right the answer. All pregnancy tests
are based upon measurement of the hormone; human
chorionic gonadotrophin which is only present
in a woman when she is pregnant. This hormone is made
after the egg is fertilized and its levels rise rapidly
in early pregnancy.
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This is the time to see your
doctor and you should visit your doctor at least once
each month for next five or six months and after that
every two weeks. In some cases, after approximately
the 34th week, your prenatal visits may be scheduled
once every week until the baby come. This schedule
will depend upon the medical condition of the mother,
the growth and development of the fetus, and your
physician's preference.
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