Prenatal Care for a Healthy Baby

As a mother I was bless with a healthy baby, but I have seen other mothers disappointed over their childbirth. If a mother educates herself as much as possible about the topic, she would have a greater chance of having a healthy baby. I know that no mother wants their baby to be born blind, or with down syndrome, disable, heart defects or having alcohol syndrome and many more unfortunate illness that I have seen over the years working as a Nurse in the pediatrics department.

I would like to start out suggesting that all expected mothers are to sign on for prenatal care sessions with their local prenatal care clinics. One clinics that is even free to qualified individual is Plan Parenthood. Plan Parenthood offer free prenatal care screening and evaluation and classes, what is greater than this free service. Please take advantage of that, you don't have to spend a fortune on prenatal care. They also do ST D's testing for free and HIV testing. They also will give you free medication if you have an ST D's. If you contracted STD before or during your pregnancy you must get it cure, if you don't this will be fatal to your fetus; it can kill your fetus, blind your fetus, or your fetus will be born with heart defects, brain defects, intestinal defects, or musculoskeletal defects. These are just among the fews that can and will happen to your fetus. There are numerous other defects if you left your STD untreated. It will all depends on the types of STD and how long you have left it untreated, one of the worst outcome is that women will become sterile and won't be able to get pregnant because some STD are left untreated for a long period of time. Another very fatal outcome is ectopic pregnancy where the fetus is born in the small tube instead of your uterus and this will lead to painful pregnancy and eventually surgery in the beginning of your pregnancy stage.

Now that I have talk about STD, one of the most fatal cause for birth defects, I will discuss about alcohol and drug use as another fatal agent during your pregnancy. Thanks to many advertisement from the public health department, many mothers are aware of the fatal effects of alcohol and drug use in the early stage of their pregnancy. Some mothers know but continue to use these agents and their babies end up with major birth defects and the mothers spend their endless days in the hospital praying for their child when they could have prevented these sad things to happen to their babies. The mother just have to be discipline during their pregnancy, after the pregnancy , they can continue with their freedom, but not during their pregnancy. Alcohol will cause your baby to look like an alien , your baby will have very abnormal size of eyes , mouth , heart, brain, I'm sure this is not how you want to impress your husband. Beside having abnormal size , some of the organs vital for life might not function normally either leading to many disabilities or deafness and speechless. Illegal drugs and smoking will cause many fatal abnormalities as well, some we all have seen in other children one point or another. So, if you or someone you know is pregnant please advise them to stay away from drugs and alcohol for the sake of the innocent baby. Their babies will thank them later.

STD, drugs and alcohol will cause major birth defects , those are the facts and they are very important for you to know about. Beside from those fatal agents, I want you to know about taking healthy supplements for a more healthy baby. These supplements have to be prescribed by your doctor to suit your particular needs. Please ask your doctors about the types of supplements that is suitable for you in accordance with your health and other medication that you are taking. These vitamins and minerals will help create a more healthy and better yet an intelligent baby, for example iron is one of the must take pill for mothers can supply good blood flow to your baby and blood flow to your fetus is one of the most important method for normal fetal growth. Please consult your doctor for the right supplements.

Another fatal cause to your fetus is injury to your stomach during your pregnancy, therefore, during your pregnancy please do not allow any kind of injury, hit , fall, carrying heavy items. Beside from all these warnings, expected mothers need to have a plan, such as who will take them to the hospital on the days that they need to deliver, keep in mind , that all delivery date may be slower or fast forward because of many reason with each mothers. So please plan for un- expectancy. Please plan for hospital stays and who will be there to care for you and how you will pay your hospital bills. You should pick a hospital of your choice too, some hospital made more mistakes and have more students working on you and you might not want that , so you can choose to avoid a university hospital. A student mistake as I have witness can kill your baby. As simple as overfeeding when your baby have respiratory problem can kill your baby. Please be aware of these issues. I wish all the mothers a safe and happy delivery.