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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Getting Pregnant

  • Get checked to view if you are exempt to German Measles. Sometimes vaccinations wear't "go. If you're not exempt, they can re-vaccinate you and so you look 3 months to get pregnant, so that the vaccination won't damage the infant.
  • If you or your spouse is Jewish, have checked to view if you are a Tay-Sachs disease carrier. Testing for this is less correct once you're pregnant. 1 in 25 American Jews is a carrier; 1 in 250 non-Jewish Americans is a carrier. Tay-Sachs is a sad hereditary disease; you wear't need to get through having a Tay-Sachs infant.
  • Your slumber needs may increase when you are pregnant. If you can organize your living to permit you to have much slumber once you are pregnant, go for it. This doesn't mean dropping all activities!! It does intend setting upward your agenda so you can go a nap formerly in a while, or then you can get to sheet early enough to have 10 hours of slumber if you look like it.
  • Go to the dentist for a complete medical and cleaning.
  • Avoid potatoes for a month or two before concept. There's some strange investigator who thinks potato intake may be associated with a high danger of sure birth defects. She's largely an egg, but I believe she has a respectable lawsuit for this, and in any lawsuit it certainly can't damage. The moment to avert potatoes would be from a month or two before concept until maybe 2 months into the best trimester, when the infant's neural pipe is formed.

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