Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Few Words About child birth
Monday, February 15, 2010
TEST TO DEVELOPMENT OF THE TEST TUBE BABY
CHECKING THE ELIGIBLITY OF THE COUPLES
Before starting treatment, important investigations like sperm count, testing the hormone levels are done at different stages to confirm the possibility of successful conception in case of this treatment. The depth of the uterus is to be tested, because it is to be strong enough to sustain the pressure of pregnancy and whether it would aid the growth of the implanted Zygote. Some women may require tablets to facilitate ovulation. In addition how much this treatment would help the woman is also ascertained before giving tablets.
Inducing the production of Ova
Sometimes the fertilized ovum or the zygote fails to grow into a fetus. Instead, it gets degenerated. The main reason for this is the insufficient maturity of the ovum. It may possible to isolate one ovum for fertilization by sperm in a test tube. But it is impossible to predict whether it would grow into a baby within the womb. To prevent such a loss, doctors induce the production of many such mature ova by the ovaries by giving hormone tablets. For this, hormone treatment is given after studying the woman’s body nature; ovulation time etc, beginning a few days after the menstrual cycle. The pituitary gland may be temporarily commanded not to secrete the hormones meant for inducing the release of the ovum. This method is adopted to get more number of ova. Instead of tablets progesterone is administered to obtain mature ova.
Estimating the development OF THE egg
The time of ovulation should be accurately estimated and ova collected at that time. Otherwise it may not be possible to effect conception. Hormone testing is done repeatedly to confirm the time of ovulation. To collect mature ova, doctors employ four methods they are
Hormone testing
Ultrasound
Injection
Normal menstrual cycle
Sunday, January 10, 2010
CALORIES REQUIRED DURING PREGNANCY
A woman during normal days requires a calorie requirement of about 2200 and during pregnancy it is around 2500. During lactation it is around 3000.
Protein requirement
Ordinary days – 60 gms
Pregnancy days – 85 gms
Lactation – 100 gms
Calcium requirement
Ordinary days – 0.8 gms
Pregnancy days – 1.5 gms
Lactation – 100 gms
Iron requirement
Ordinary days – 20 micro gms
Pregnancy days – 40 micro gms
Lactation – 100 micro gms
Vitamin B requirement
Ordinary days –1.5 gms
Pregnancy days – 1.8 gms
Lactation – 2.3 gms
Vitamin A requirement
Ordinary days –3000 micro gms
Pregnancy days – 3600 microgms
Lactation – 4800 microgms
Vitamin D requirement
Ordinary days –10 gms
Pregnancy days – 20 gms
Lactation – 20 gms
You should see it that your food contains at least this much of prescribed amount of nutrients.