I PLAN TO CONCERN, WHAT SHOULD I DO?
It is beneficial for women who are planning a pregnancy to adopt a healthy lifestyle before pregnancy. Women planning pregnancy can be divided into two groups. Women with a known chronic disease prior to pregnancy and who are perfectly healthy. It is recommended that women with heart disease, kidney disease, asthma, epilepsy and similar chronic diseases before pregnancy stay in close contact with their doctors and become pregnant during a period when their diseases are under control. In healthy women, the following points should be considered before pregnancy: If smoking, it should be stopped or it should be reduced to less than 5 per day.
In order to start the pregnancy with the ideal weight, it is important for women who are overweight to lose weight under the control of a doctor in terms of reducing some complications that may occur during pregnancy (eg, gestational blood pressure (preeclampsia) and gestational diabetes).
Rubella test, Hepatitis B screening and blood count before pregnancy are beneficial. Vaccination is recommended for women who have never been or have not been vaccinated against rubella infection.
Women who have a family history of Mediterranean anemia, sickle cell anemia, cystic fibrosis and similar hereditary diseases or who are carriers for these diseases should be evaluated together with their spouses and receive genetic counseling.
It is recommended that women who are planning pregnancy use 400 micrograms of folic acid per day to prevent anomalies in their babies called neural tube defects that develop due to incomplete closure of the spine. In women who have carried such a baby in previous pregnancies, the daily dose of folic acid should be 4 grams.
In order to start the pregnancy with the ideal weight, it is important for women who are overweight to lose weight under the control of a doctor in terms of reducing some complications that may occur during pregnancy (eg, gestational blood pressure (preeclampsia) and gestational diabetes).
Rubella test, Hepatitis B screening and blood count before pregnancy are beneficial. Vaccination is recommended for women who have never been or have not been vaccinated against rubella infection.
Women who have a family history of Mediterranean anemia, sickle cell anemia, cystic fibrosis and similar hereditary diseases or who are carriers for these diseases should be evaluated together with their spouses and receive genetic counseling.
It is recommended that women who are planning pregnancy use 400 micrograms of folic acid per day to prevent anomalies in their babies called neural tube defects that develop due to incomplete closure of the spine. In women who have carried such a baby in previous pregnancies, the daily dose of folic acid should be 4 grams.
