A Guide To Your Pregnancy
Call right away to have a pregnancy test done with your local doctor, you could be in luck and get in that very same day or need to wait roughly a week or 2. Patience will become your best pal in this time or your worst enemy, waiting can become a particularly hard thing when you would like to know for sure whether or not you are or are not pregnant.
Likely you will get a telephone call some days later to approve it.
Set up an appointment to see your OB / GYN or midwife as quickly as possible chances are you will be meeting his / her staff before you ever meet them. If you can, try guaranteeing you know all of this before time, perhaps have it all down on paper so when he / she asks you’re prepared. Accept it or not doctors are there to help, and they have been asked each query you can potentially think about. Before leaving your physician may even give you a bag full of goodies all about being pregnant.
Your GP will either give you another appointment or have you set one up before leaving. There are some great books out there if you’re truly worried about what will occur next or how birth is going to be, check them out at your local library. If for some reason you cannot take them, talk with your GP he / she may be in a position to prescribe a lower dose or something else. You will get your first ultrasound, sometimes called US around week twenty, this is usually when you discover what sex the baby is. However some doctors like to name it safe and give you an ultrasound around 10-12 weeks just to make certain the baby is in the right location and all is going well. You will be asked to take an orange drink that you may drink in 5 mins. You can wait around for an hour to 3 hours, at which point your blood gets drawn and you can return home. At first your appointments will be about four weeks apart until you hit the 36 week and at that point it will be 2 weeks later and 7 days later after that till the baby is born. By this point you should be making ready to have the baby. Yes, I am sure you could have some uneasiness towards the end of your pregnancy.