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Nine Months

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What you can expect at this month’s checkup: After about the 36th week you will see your doctor weekly. You can expect your doctor to check the following:

  • Weight ( gains generally slows down or ceases) and blood pressure (it may be slighty higher than it was at mid-pregnancy)
  • Urine, for sugar and protein
  • Fetal heartbeat
  • Height of fundus
  • Fetal size (you may get a rough weight estimate)
  • Feet and hands for swelling and legs for varicose veins
  • Cervix (by internal examination usually sometime after the 38th week) for effacement and dilatation or where appropriate, for repeat cultures of the cervix
  • Symptoms you have been experiencing, especially unsual ones
  • Frequency and duration of Braxton Hicks contractions as reported by you
  • Questions and problems you want to discuss
  • You can also expect to receive instructions from your doctor as to when to call if you think you are in labor, if you don’t, ask for them

     

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    What you may be feeling:

     

  • Changes in fetal activity( more squirming and less kicking as the fetus has progressively less room to move around in)
  • Vaginal discharge becomes heavier and contains more mucus, which may be streaked red with blood or tinged brown more pink after intercourse or a pelvic exam
  • Constipation
  • Heartburn, indigestion
  • Occasional headaches or dizziness
  • Nasal congestion and occasional nosebleeds, ear stuffiness
  • Bleeding gums
  • Leg cramps during sleep
  • Increased backache and heaviness
  • Buttock and pelvic dicomfort and achiness
  • Increased swelling of ankles and feet, and occasionally of hands and face
  • Itchy abdomen, protruding navel
  • Varicose veins of the legs
  • Hemorrhoids
  • Easier breathing after the baby drops
  • More frequent urination after the baby drops
  • Increased difficulty sleeping
  • More frequent and more intense Braxton Hicks contractions (some may be painful)
  • Increasing clumsiness and difficulty getting around
  • Colostrum, either leaking or expressable from breasts (though this premilk substance may not appear until after delivery)
  • Fatigue or extra energy, or alternate periods of each
  • Increase in appetite, or loss of appetite
  • More excitement, more anxiety, more apprehension, more absentmindedness
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