COVID has challenged pregnant people in a way most have not experienced before. Call the Emotional Support Helpline seven days a week at from 8 a. Near the end of your pregnancy you may be uncomfortable or anxious to see your baby. But remember -- you want to be sure you deliver a full term baby, if possible. Babies born before 39 weeks have a greater chance of breathing problems, low blood sugar and other problems that may result in being admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit NICU.
There are many factors that may lead to a preterm birth. Women who have had a previous preterm baby are at highest risk for another preterm baby. Women carrying twins or triplets or have uterine or cervical tumors are also at high risk. Early evaluation and consultation in our clinic will help you start this process.
Getting medical care early on in your pregnancy will reduce your chances of having a preterm birth. Any woman who is pregnant should have an appointment during the first 12 weeks of her pregnancy, regardless of her chances of having a preterm birth. Your first visit in the Utah Preterm Birth Prevention Clinic should take place between 10 and 18 weeks gestation. This helps doctors estimate your due date and give you a physical exam to identify risk factors, including any risks that are caused by earlier preterm deliveries.
Coming to our clinic when you are 10 to 18 weeks pregnant also lets us detect any inflammation or infection. This will help us lower your chances of having another preterm birth. You could ask your current physician for a referral to our clinic, and we would be happy to see you. For women over the age of 40 looking to get pregnant, it is important to start working with a fertility specialist sooner than later.
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Your due date is in sight and you only have a few weeks to go. In fact, you're so close, you'd be happy to get the show on the road and have your baby now. What's the harm? Your doctor told you, after all, that at 37 weeks, you're close enough to your due date that it's safe to have your baby. That's what countless women were told during the 80s, 90s and s when the induction craze was at its peak.
As it turns out, those last few weeks are just as important as any other phase of pregnancy, and "close enough" doesn't always cut it.
Experts now believe that you should do everything in your power to make it to your due date, unless there's a medical reason to deliver your child sooner. The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has redefined the meaning of "term pregnancy. Most physicians believed that major organ development was complete at this time and that babies simply packed on pounds during the last stretch of pregnancy.
If mom went past that, those last three weeks or longer were almost seen as a write-off. Now, however, after a couple of decades that have seen too many C-sections and record numbers of babies in the neonatal intensive care unit NICU , those last few weeks of pregnancy are being taken seriously. Baxter, M. Doctors and hospitals have learned so much from the mistakes made back in the day when inductions and C-sections were as easy to schedule as a haircut, and were often done with mothers who were only 37 - 38 weeks pregnant.
Many of these procedures were done not out of medical necessity, but for convenience sake — for example, to make sure grandma could be at the birth, or so mom could be sure her own doctor would be on-call during her labor. But because due dates are often miscalculated, especially by ultrasound, doctors were frequently delivering premature babies who wound up spending time in the NICU.
One study, for example, found that babies born by C-section before 39 weeks have more breathing difficulties than babies delivered by C-section after 39 weeks. Furthermore, babies delivered electively at 37 weeks are four times more likely to end up in the neonatal intensive care unit or have serious respiratory troubles than babies born at 39 weeks or later; babies who arrive at 38 weeks are twice as likely to have complications.
Additionally, many of the inductions were unsuccessful because mom's body was not ready to go into labor. These women wound up with C-sections they most likely wouldn't have needed if they'd waited for labor to start on its own.
You may be tempted to ask your doctor for an early induction because of swollen ankles or an aching back, but that final month is critical to your baby's good health.
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