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28 Weeks

He is about two and a half pounds now.


What you can expect at this month’s checkup:

This month you can expect yoru doctor to check the following:

  • Weight and blood pressure
  • Urine, for sugar and protein
  • Fetal heartbeat
  • Height of fundus (top of uterus)
  • Size and position of fetus by external palpation
  • Feet and hands swelling and legs for varicose veins
  • Symptoms you have been experiencing, especially unsual ones
  • Questions and problems you want to discuss

    What you may be feeling: You may experience all of these symptoms at one time or another or only a few of them. Still others may hardly be noticed because you’ve become so used to them.

     

  • Stronger and more frequent fetal activity
  • Increasingly heavy whitish vaginal discharge
  • Lower abdominal achiness
  • Constipation
  • Heartburn, indigestion
  • Occasional headaches or dizziness
  • Nasal congestion and occasional nosebleed, ear stuffiness
  • Bleeding gums
  • Leg cramps
  • Backache
  • Mild swelling of ankles and feet and occasionally of hands and face
  • Varicose veins of the legs
  • Hemorrhoids
  • Itchy abdomen
  • Shortness of breath
  • Difficulty sleeping
  • Scattered Braxton Hicks contractions, usually painless (the uterus hardens for a minute, then returns to normal)
  • Clumsiness (which increases the risk of falling)
  • Colostrum, either leaking or expressed, from enlarged breasts
  • Increasing apprehension about motherhood, baby’s health and about delivery
  • Continued absentmindedness
  • Increased dreaming and fantasizing about the baby
  • Increased boredom and weariness with the pregnancy, the beginning of anxiousness for to be over
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