3rd week of pregnancy

Your rules are not arrived at the usual time: If you have not yet attempted to do so, you get a pregnancy test that will confirm that you are pregnant. Some changes have may already have put you the chip in his ear. Normal, your body begins to react to the large hormonal upheaval to which it is subject: tired, irritated, Moody… you do you agree more!

You who were of the genus couche-tard, you do keep more eyes wide open as soon as you sit on a couch. Drowsiness, or even an irrepressible sleep like all day long, is common in early pregnancy. It is due to the sedative effect of progesterone.

3rd week of pregnancy

Although they occur more readily in the 5th and 6th weeks of pregnancy, you have perhaps already famous morning nausea so much feared by the Moms! No panic, they are generally transient and disappear completely between the 14 and the 16th week of pregnancy. Read more »

how manage them smoothly?

For 9 months, you have brought your baby and lived with him a real symbiosis. With your maternity leave, you also have create unique links with your child and build a unique and harmonious relationship. But is maybe time for you to return to the path of the work… How do I get this separation is best for you and your baby? Here are all our tips!

Return to work is a moment feared by many young mothers. After spending several weeks with their tiny, it is not always easy to move away so a day… Your concerns are normal. For these separations are not a source of stress for you and your baby, it must simply that each of you preparing in douceur….

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Separation: anxiety to the mother, the baby.

After your delivery, you probably received a postnatal leave of 10 weeks. During this period, set a climate of trust between you and your baby. You indeed are the first object of attachment of your child! The future separation can be painful for everyone. Read more »

Your delivery in 8 questions

Will settle immediately in the classroom work? Can I eat? Drink? In what position should I settle? Can dad stay in all circumstances to my side? You ask us very many issues on your delivery. And it is normal. Martine Loch in, midwife, tells you.

1 – Will settle immediately in the classroom work?

Probably not. The fast imposed in most of the maternity units is based on the risk of vomiting, nausea and “wrong” at work and in general anesthesia. However, things could change, in particular the prohibition of drinking water, with the implementation of protocols allowing women to drink during labour in some maternity units. Check with the institution where you give birth and, if this is not the case, do a water spray spray.

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2. Do I will be sitting, lying down? Can I move?

You can see in what position you best support uterine contractions. Do not hesitate to talk to the midwife and implement this you have learned during your preparation for childbirth. Read more »

Thyroid cancer: towards a new standard treatment

In a low-risk thyroid cancer, four therapeutic strategies by iodine-131 after surgical resection of the gland are also effective, according to a study conducted by a team of the Institute Gustave Roussy. But one of these approaches is distinguished from others by a better tolerance and less irradiation of the body. It should therefore become the new standard for treatment as such.

A new standard treatment for thyroid cancer. To set the therapeutic strategy the most effective in the treatment of low thyroid cancer risk, after complete surgery of the thyroid, the Pr Martin Schlumberger (Chief of nuclear medicine at the Institute de cancerologie Gustave Roussy, Villejuif) and 24 French centers colleagues compared the 4 existing approaches 752 patients divided into four groups.

Thyroid cancer

The patients were treated by:

-withdrawal in thyroid hormone, and then 100 mill curies of iodine 131 (which corresponds to the standard treatment);

-thyroid hormone withdrawal, then 30 mill curies of iodine 131;

-thyroid hormone therapy, injections of human TSH recombinant then 100 mill curies of iodine 131; Read more »

How put an end to the fear of the dentist?

Consultations among dental surgeons tend to put the French evil at ease (54%). An appointment with the health care professional, 35% of respondents admit to test apprehension, and 14% are totally afraid this time.

More of French on two uncomfortable at the idea to consult a dentist. Among the French referring to fears in the consultation of a dental surgeon, 67% say fear pain during medical procedures carried out.

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This feeling is far before the fear of discover the processes to perform (42%), fear of the numbing bite (29%) and the specter of the noise associated with instruments (29%).All of these fears, experienced by a majority of French, often leads to wait that a problem is getting worse for a dental surgeon (52%). Some say even see their appointments as possible (45%), while others prefer to never see (21%). Read more »

Pregnancy symptoms: the signs that are not wrong

You dream of a child and you listen to the smallest signs of your body. A few days of delay in rules, tense breasts… And you can already imagine you round belly. Are there symptoms of pregnancy? Does rely?

The hormonal upheaval that accompanies pregnancy can cause symptoms early and characteristics. This is what is called the “sympathetic” signs of pregnancy, even if the signs do not always deserve this qualifier.

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The absence of rules, a reliable sign of pregnancy?

Well before that belly is round, many women may perceive the first signs of pregnancy. More consistent, which almost always gives the alert, is, of course, rules delayed. However, many women have irregular rules, or even periods of amenorrhea (spontaneous judgment of the rules), what makes this sign, in fact, unreliable, in early pregnancy. On the other hand bleeding may occur at the time where the rules should normally take place. Although often less abundant than menstruation,they can still be confusing. Read more »

Pregnancy tests

More than two million tests are sold each year in pharmacy. The determination of a specific hormone of pregnancy, it enables a reliable response to 99%. They can be used as early as the first day of the rules or even three days prior to the more efficient.

Who applies this test?

A woman wishing to know if she is pregnant.

How it works?

The alleged day rules or even three days before, pregnancy tests sold in pharmacy detect the presence in the urine of a hormone secreted by the egg then the placenta, specific to pregnancy (b – HCG for human chronic gonadotropin). Fertilization is accompanied by the secretion of this hormone is growing during pregnancy.

Pregnancy tests

Placed in the presence of urine, the test change color. Their reliability is now 99% provided that the precautions have been well observed. The results must be obtained on the first urine of the morning. Read more »

The miracle of life

4 Weeks ago, shortly after your ovulation, the meeting with a sperm to fertilize your egg and provided the necessary paternal genetic complement that your pregnancy begins. A cell thus formed, and then two, four, eight and so on.

Evolution of the fetus – week 1
Evolution of the fetus – week 2

Evolution of the fetus – week 3
Evolution of the fetus – week 4

The miracle of life

First week

Thus constituted egg continued to grow in one of your fallopian tubes, and, after 4 to 5 days, it arrived in the uterus. It is at this time 1 mm. It will then cling to the uterine lining and gradually sink into it to live comfortably: it is the stage of implantation, which is at the end of the first week of pregnancy, and your third week without rules. Read more »

My pregnancy month by month

This second examination is critical. In it, your practitioner will you weigh, will check your blood pressure, urine examination will and serology against toxoplasmosis and rubella. The State of your cervix and heart rate of your baby will be also controlled.

The medical consultation of the fourth month

You will pass the consultation of the 4th month.

Your doctor will ask you a number of questions:

Do you feel the baby move?
Are you bleeding?
Do you have losses?
Have you contractions, pain?
Do you have problems to urinate?
Do you have a fever?

My pregnancy month

The review continues by weight gain. Some mothers will have the bad surprise to have taken more than superfluous kilos. Attention to nibbling and poor eating habits! Read more »

Soon the second child… Will you have enough love?

You are the happy MOM of a child and you want or wait for another babe… Yet, despite the happiness of a new pregnancy, several fears you hasten… The emotion will be at the Rendezvous? Will you have enough love for two children? Will you have enough time?

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Very often moms, when considering having a second child, through a period of questioning at the determination or during pregnancy. They ask what they will feel during this pregnancy, how to love the new baby as much as the first, how to get to share their love between the children will love them all even? These questions they are lining up in their head and fill them apprehension and incertitude’s…

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Less emotions and sensations?

Madam, have simply difficult to imagine another relationship that you have with your first child: it has already taken a such place in your heart and in your life that you would like to know what is going to happen with the second. The first pregnancy was so rich in emotions and discoveries, that it will be necessarily different. You understand to not feel as strong sensations: is this pregnancy as pleasant? Read more »