The long 9 months of pregnancy come to an end, the day approaches when there will be a long-awaited meeting with the kid approaches. Calculate exactly this day is difficult, but you need to be ready, starting from 38-39 weeks. The child is already considered full, and it will be absolutely normal if the birth begins in the period of 38-42 weeks.
Therefore, it is important to start collecting in the maternity ward a little beforehand. All the necessary items must be purchased and collected in a separate bag or bag to feel calm and not to be in a hurry. Moreover, there is a possibility that childbirth will not begin at home and there will simply be no opportunity to put things together.
When to go to the hospital?
Determine the approximate date for the onset of labor can be done according to some physiological manifestations: 2-3 weeks before the birth, most women have so-called precursors. The main precursor is painless irregular fights that occur after taking antispasmodics or in themselves. So the body begins to prepare for childbirth.
The moment, when it is necessary to go to the hospital, is determined already at the beginning of immediate labor. Generic activity is characterized by the onset of painful and regular contractions, the frequency and intensity of which increases and does not cease after taking antispasmodics.
Another sign of the early onset of labor and the fact that it is worth to go to the hospital is the departure of the mucous plug, the appearance of small bloody discharge from the uterus - all this indicates the opening of the cervix.
Sometimes there is prenatal discharge of amniotic fluid. Here it already says that it's time to go to the hospital.
How to get to the hospital?
The best option is to take care of hospitalization in advance. That is, it is better to conclude a contract with the maternity hospital in which you would like to give birth a few weeks before the birth.
When to go to negotiate in the maternity ward: usually such a contract is concluded on the 36th week between the pregnant woman and the maternity home. At the same time, her husband's side or any other capable and adult citizen can represent her pregnant side, and the maternity hospital, as a rule, is represented by an insurance company.
How to sign a contract with the hospital? You can stipulate the condition that you have to take delivery fee paid brigade or a certain gynecologist who watches you. After the conclusion of the contract with the maternity hospital, the woman is attached to him and observed by the doctors of this medical institution.
Immediate hospitalization can be carried out by ambulance for parturient women. Or you can come to the hospital with your husband or another relative by car, if possible.
There are cases when it is better to go to the hospital before the birth of labor. For example, if you give birth for the first time, it is optimal to go to the hospital a few days before the expected date of delivery. Here you will be more relaxed waiting for the bouts, and the hospital staff will take care of your condition in case something goes wrong.
Even if you are an experienced mother, but feel that some complications begin, immediately call an ambulance or go to the hospital yourself. Among such complications that require emergency care:
- the leaking amniotic fluid is colored with blood;
- abundant spotting appeared;
- The uterus does not relax between contractions, painful to the touch;
- there were changes in the wiggling of the fetus - they became stronger or, conversely, calmed down;
- the head hurts, the arterial pressure has raised, vision became indistinct, the epigastric region hurts.
If any of these symptoms occur, you can not be shy or afraid to seek help at night. At occurrence of any discomfort it is better to be hedged than to endanger the health and life of one's own and the child.