26 week of pregnancy

On the 26th week of pregnancy to future kid 24 weeks from conception time are executed, there is the seventh lunar month of pregnancy.

Changes in a fruit organism

By means of ultrasonography on the 26th week of pregnancy it is possible to learn that future kid already reached length about 35 cm, and the mass of 750 - 850.

At a fruit the individual traits of the person characteristic only of it already clearly are distinguishable. On a face of future child there are eyelashes and eyebrows, auricles, a small nose, cheeks begin to be rounded. Ears are a little bulged, they still soft because of an underdevelopment of a cartilage which makes their basis.

Sense bodys - an inner ear, sight, touch continue to develop. For a fruit on the 26th week of pregnancy the knock of maternal heart is very usual and familiar, it calms him. Future kid distinguishes light and darkness, fingers feels an umbilical cord and parts of the body. There is an opinion that on the 26th week of pregnancy he distinguishes voices of the father and mother.

Eyes of future kid on the 26th week of pregnancy are created, but he does not open them yet. Color of an iris of the eye is already predetermined.

Relation of a brain with bark of adrenal glands is established – process of formation of hormones becomes to an under control hypophysis and a hypothalamus. Besides, own growth hormone begins to be developed.

Fruit lungs on the 26th week of pregnancy take the usual place, pulmonary respiratory sacks (alveoluses) become more and more that increases survival in case of premature births.

Stirs of a fruit are so active that can cause pains on the 26th week of pregnancy. If the woman feels regular pushes and the movements in a stomach on the 24th week of pregnancy, so with her future child everything is all right. Approximately from this term of stir of the kid also other people can feel, having put a palm to a stomach. In the absence of feeling of stir in a stomach on the 26th week of pregnancy longer than 12 hours in a row it is worth seeing a doctor.

Changes in the woman's organism on the 26th week of pregnancy

Uterine fundus height over the level of a pubic joint makes normal about 26 cm now, or is 6 cm higher than a navel.

Increase in weight and circle of a stomach inevitably affect the 26th week of pregnancy bystry fatigue of the woman. Sometimes unpleasant painful feelings in a waist join fatigue. It is connected with change of the center of gravity of a body and the softening influence of hormones of pregnancy on ligaments of joints. Such pains on the 26th week of pregnancy are natural, and it is possible to struggle with them. Specialists recommend to a thicket to have a rest, accepting horizontal position, not to lift weights and to wear convenient shoes on a low heel.

The breast of the pregnant woman to this term increased in sizes. Allocation on the 26th week of pregnancy from nipples of several drops of colostrum – a sign that the breast prepares for breastfeeding after the delivery. On an areola around nipples there can be speakers over a surface hillocks, and peripapillary circles darken – so you should not be frightened it.

Inspection on the 26th week of pregnancy

On this term hemoglobin can decrease that is reflected in the general blood test. There is no wonder, as the volume of the circulating blood increased almost by one and a half times. It is not necessary to allow decrease in hemoglobin lower than 110 g/l as at anemia not only the health of the woman worsens, but also the fruit can suffer from air hunger.

For all pregnancy up to 26 weeks the general increase of body weight should not exceed 10 kg. Excess and too bystry increase in weight testifies in advantage is hidden the proceeding gestosis (toxicosis of the second half of pregnancy). It is the best of all to control weight daily, on an empty stomach, at the same time.