Be Carefull With Your Blood Sugar Levels During Pregnancy

Diabetes  simply means you have abnormally high levels of sugar in your blood. When you eat, your digestive system breaks most of your food down into a type of sugar called glucose. The glucose enters your bloodstream and then, with the help of insulin (a hormone made by your pancreas), your cells use the glucose as fuel. However, if your body doesn't produce enough insulin – or your cells have a problem responding to the insulin – too much glucose remains in your blood instead of moving into the cells and getting converted to energy.

What  is Gestational Diabetes? It is a type of diabetes that is triggered by changes in the body's metabolism and hormone levels in the mother's body that occur because of the pregnancy. So many pregnant women who experience gestational diabetes or type 2 diabetes mellitus during pregnancy. Moreover the general public to consume carbohydrates, rice as a staple food. Babies in pregnant women with diabetes tend to have the large despite pregnancy was not enough, so the risk to be born early but his organs are not mature enough.
This is a type of diabetes that some women get during pregnancy. Between 2 and 10 percent of expectant mothers develop this condition, making it one of the most common health problems of pregnancy.

It is important for you to to monitor blood sugar levels during your pregnancy. Pregnant mother  should perform routine screening examinations. What should be done in order to keep blood sugar levels normal is by injecting insulin therapy, keeping a low sugar diet and light exercise regularly as recommended by your doctor. During pregnancy, the doctor will continue to monitor the development of the fetus on a regular basis. After the baby is born, the blood sugar levels will be evaluated to see the baby's body's ability to regulate blood sugar levels without the help of her mother's insulin. Likewise, the mother will continue to be monitored until 3 months after delivery.

Arithmia Cordis, Pregnancy With Cardiovascular Abnormalities

Pregnancy with congenital heart called arithmia cordis, which is an irregular heart rhythm. A fetal arrhythmia occurs in about 1-2% of all pregnancies. A fetal arrhythmia is simply an abnormal heartbeat and can be classified as one of three types.

Tachycardia means that the heart is beating too fast. Brachycardia means the heart is beating to slow. An irregular heartbeat means that the heart is experiencing extra or skipped beats. A fetus' heart rate should be between 120 and 160 beats per minute to be considered normal and healthy.

Symptoms are, even felt before marriage is often fainted when fatigue. During pregnancy should be arranged so as not to restrict the activities of fatigue and fainting as well as make the heart rhythm becomes chaotic, because it will affect the fetal growth process.

The risk of  heart disease is the occurrence of additional workload on the heart of the capital. Because when a pregnant mother, there will be an increase of about 30% of blood volume to be pumped around the body the heart of the mother and fetus should be able to reach the body.

The doctor will assess the extent to which pregnancy affects maternal heart problems-and, conversely, the extent to which maternal cardiac abnormalities affect the growth and development of the fetus. It also needs to consider the impact of the drugs the mother used to help regulate heart rhythm, to the fetus.

If the drug is consumed will affect the growth and development of the fetus, even at risk of disability, the drug should be replaced with a very mild type of risk. Furthermore, continued careful monitoring to determine the point of peak load capacity of heart that has not been tolerated, and would endanger the mother's life. At this point the doctor will do the surgery to stop the heart’s load of the pregnant mother. 

In some cases,  arrhythmia will go away on their own. It will  not create any long-lasting effects for the baby. However, some fetal arrhythmias can reveal true health complications such as structural problems in the heart, heart disease, infections or exposure to alcohol, tobacco or drugs in utero. It is better for you to get  Doppler and ultrasound exams. It  can detect a fetal arrhythmia during your pregnancy. Because fetal arrhythmias can cause fetal distress or fetal death because the baby can not breathe well.

The wrong Habit of Pregnant Mother

 Weight gain during pregnancy sometimes can not be controlled It is  generally caused by lifestyle and not proper. Some of new habit  of pregnant mother must be reconsidered.

Fill the fridge.

Before getting  pregnant, you have intended to improve your diet. So the spirit of fulfilling the fridge with groceries milk, pure fruit juice, fruit and vegetables, cheese, meat and get rid of foods that are considered "bad", eg rainbow cake sprinkled with sugar.  Actually It's okay to fill the fridge with healthy foods. But  you must store normal amount of food. The addition of maternal calorie needs about 300 calories / day, which can be obtained from a sandwich or a glass of milk. Put so many foods in the refrigerator could encourage eating more than needed.

The Diet.

 Before pregnant you have to manage your diet that makes you feel healthy, fit, and body weight maintained. When you got pregnant, your doctors may suggest to stop the diet and replacing it with a standard healthy diet. But you must know that a big change in diet can lead to health problems and weight gain that you can not control. Keep eating normally , but give more attention to the adequacy of all the necessary nutrients for pregnant women. But if there are indications of deterioration in conditions, such as get weaken so often, weight does not increase, or your  doctors said that you have deficiencies of certain nutrients, it is must for you to change diet needs.

Cold Water Myth

Some people believe that  drinking a lot of water, especially cold water can make  pregnant women and their babies fat. There is also the myth of the cold water will solidify the fat body to become fat. As a result, many pregnant women choose to limit their drinking. Do not want to drink is wrong habits. Drinking water does not make fat except the water added with sweeteners. Insufficient drinking water will lead to dehydration. Dehydration in pregnancy is not only harmful to the mother, but also the fetus.