Week 20. Pregnancy week by week
Physical and psychological changes of pregnant women
Surely you look very pretty with your tripita of twenty weeks. Due to the hormones produced by the body, during pregnancy it is normal to look more attractive. You will continue with symptoms of pregnancy, but noticing the kicks of your baby will make everything seem like a trifle.
1. It is recommended that if you feel hot flashes, palpitations or any symptom of discomfort, you lie on your left side. When lying on your back, you can make an excess of pressure in the inferior vena cava, which causes those discomforts.
2. Surely you have to go more times to urinate. This at night can be a problem, which can make you more tired because you can not sleep the hours you need.
3. Your heart rate is higher, you pump blood for yourself and your baby. The same thing will happen to your breathing, which will be deeper.
The development of the baby during week 20
Photo: THINKSTOCK Enlarge photoFive months of pregnancy are four and a half months of gestation in which the fetus has gone from being just an almost invisible cell to having its own identity. In the 20th week of pregnancy an ultrasound will be carried out in which you will be able to see its new changes.
1. It already measures around 15-16 centimeters and weighs about 250 grams.
2. Their main organs have been formed, except the brain, which continues to develop until the first years of the child's life.
3. You get the fingerprints and physical characteristics of each person like the dimples or the shape of the palms.
4. As you have developed ears, it is good to play music, since it helps your brain development.
The health of the pregnant woman at week 20 of pregnancy
Photo: THINKSTOCK Enlarge photoThe twenty week of pregnancy is an important week, because you will perform the morphological ultrasound of the week twenty. It is normal to worry, because it is a test in which malformations in the fetus can be seen. But you must be calm and share everything with your partner. Typically, your baby is not at risk. Also, in this ultrasound they will tell you the sex. You have to be relaxed and continue with your habit of healthy living.
Control of pregnancy in week 20 of pregnancy
You've been pregnant for five months. We are in week twenty, the key week to perform the morphological ultrasound to your baby. It is a test in which they analyze all the organs of your child in a detailed way. It is used to diagnose malformations in the fetus. In the case of finding a malformation, the doctors explain it to you and perform more specific tests such as an MRI or other amniocentesis.
A Doppler ultrasound is also performed. This type of ultrasound can measure the arteries, the blood flow that passes through them, how the placenta works, if there is a risk of suffering some complication during pregnancy ... They also measure the cervix, which is useful to know if there is a possibility of premature delivery.
All these tests that are carried out during the twentieth week of pregnancy serve to rule out malformations or if there are any, investigate more about them. Parents should be calm, because they are usually tests that are overcome without complications, rather with joys to know the sex of their future child.
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Pregnancy calendar week to week
Click on each petal or circle to see the content of your week or trimester of pregnancy respectively.
