Pregnancy Tips

The first step of your pregnancy, after seeing the little positive stick should to have it confirmed. Go immediately to have a pregnancy test done by your neighbourhood doctor, you may be in luck and get in that same day or have to wait for a week or two. Patience will become your best friend during this time or your worst enemy, waiting can become a very hard thing when you want to know for sure whether you are or aren’t expectant.

More than likely you’ll get a phone call a few days later to confirm it.

Set up an appointment to see your OB/GYN or midwife as soon as possible, chances are you’ll be meeting his/her staff before you get to see them. This is the foremost appointment where your physician/midwife will want to know all your medical history. If you’ve been pregnant, what types of sicknesses run in your family, etc. If you can, try making sure you know all of this in advance of time, maybe even jot it all down on paper so when he/she asks you are prepared.

During the days or weeks leading up to this meeting you may have concerns, write them down and ask them. Believe it or not doctors are there to help you, and they’ve been asked every question you can possibly dream of. Before leaving your doctor may even pass you a bag full of goodies all about becoming pregnant. Read these, they may be beneficial and not to mention they’ve got coupons.

Your doctor will usually either give you extra appointment or have you set one up before leaving. There are some tremendous books out there if you are really worried about what will happen next or how birth is going to be, check them out at your local library.

Make sure that you get your prenatal vitamins, they are very important during pregnancy. If for whatever reason you can’t take them, talk with your doctor he/she may be able to prescribe a lower quantity or something else. You’ll get your first ultrasound, alternatively known as US around week 20, this is normally when you find out what sex the baby is.

However some doctors like to call it safe and give you an ultrasound around 10-12 weeks just to make sure the baby is in the proper location and all is going well. You will also be asked to take an orange drink that you must guzzle in five minutes. You’ll wait about for an hour to three hours, at which point your blood gets drawn and you can go back home. The test determines if you have or have a chance of getting gestational diabetes.

At first your appointments regularity will be about 4 weeks apart until you hit the 36 week and at that point it’ll be two weeks later and a week later after that until the baby is born. By now you should be getting ready to have the baby. Yes, I’m sure you’ll have some anxiety towards the end of your pregnancy. You’ve went this far, it’s time you see your reward.