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.

Is "Kicking" A Sign That Our Baby Will Grow Into Active Child?

Experiencing fetal movement in our stomach is so wonderfull. It is one of the special gift from God given to us as a woman, and specially the chosen one.  This experience is also limited in our lifetimes. So don’t waste this moment, feel and enjoy that kick! It is a very special kick.

As a pregnant mother we all must know that sometimes between 18-25 weeks into pregnancy, we  will begin to feel movement. If it is our first pregnancy, it may occur closer to 25 weeks, and for second or third time moms, it may occur closer to 18 weeks.

According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) is ideally women feel fetal movement at least 10 movements in 2 hours. In general, the movement is perceived in a shorter period of time.  But keep in mind, that the fetus in the womb can sleep well. So that in this situation when we do not feel fetal movement. However, the fetus should not sleep more than 4 hours

Strong or weak of fetal movements of the fetus depends on which one moves and maternal perceptions. For example, the movement of the baby kicking or leg twisting in pregnancy at term would be perceived as a strong movement by the mother. Conversely hand movement or fingers would be perceived as weak by the movement of the mother.

In general, the fetus moves more active at night around  09:00 to 01:00 PM. So you must wake up because of this movements.  Mother's perception of the strength or weakness of fetal movement depends maternal sensitivity in assessing fetal movement, the amount of amniotic fluid or fat thickness. Amniotic fluid also affect the strength of the maternal fetal movements felt. When we have a slight amount of amniotic fluid,  we will feel fetal movement more strongly, whereas if the amount of amniotic fluid is much, mothers usually feel less fetal movement. The truth needs to be considered not a strong or weak movement of the baby, but how often / frequency of  our baby's movements.

We often feel that  the fetus kick again and again,  is it  the sign that he will grow into an active child? Fetal movement did show a good development of the central nervous system and muscular system bones during in the womb. Fetal movement and activity can predict behavior and mental and motor development of the infant after birth. However, the movement during pregnancy does not mean if the function of organs at birth was perfect. Movement of the fetus felt by the mother, although the fetus with congenital anatomical organ or genetic disorders.