Technology to reduce preterm birth

 

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  Preterm birth is the leading cause of newborn babies death and illness worldwide. One in ten babies worldwide is born preterm, between 24 and 37 weeks into gestation. That's 15 million newborns a year of which one million will die and one million will die of substantial disabilities.

  The average length of the human gestation is 280 days or forty weeks, from the first of the woman's last menstrual period the medical term for the due date is estimated date of confinement (EDC). however only about four percent of women actually give birth on their EDC. In addition to the heartbreak there is huge financial burden on the health care system. But with the help of this small smart solution named lioness which enables women at risk for spontaneous birth to deliver the babies at term.

  The disposable patented silicone ring inserted vaginally into a two to three minute procedure in the clinic, surrounding the uterine cervix and prevents early shortening or dilatation of the cervix despite uterine contractions. lioness is removed when the pregnancy is close to term . 

With the aid of this technology preterm birth will be reduced and the death of newborn babies too.


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A new technology that doesn't make a woman's stomach protude during pregnancy

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  I know it is crazy and it seems almost impossible to get pregnant without growing, but the world is drastically changing and technology is taking over almost everything. We have heard of couples making babies without getting pregnant like that of the test-tube babies and how they are being formed without sexual intercourse but the case is not so here, we are doing something entirely different and interesting.

  A new method will be used a woman who is confirmed pregnant usually doing the first month of the pregnancy would visit the doctor and this is where the technology comes in, the woman would be given a pill that will not make her stomach protrude while the baby is still inside the womb similar to cryptic pregnancy, a type of pregnancy that is not recognized by the person who is pregnant until they are in labor, just like the case of a woman who gave birth on the toilet seat without knowing she is pregnant. I know this is crazy but it is real and this is called cryptic pregnancy. The new method is really close to the cryptic pregnancy but a bit different, for the new method the pregnant woman goes to the doctor during the first month of her pregnancy and is given a drug that will keep her in a good condition until the second month of her pregnancy where the baby will be removed and put in something that looks like an incubator until it is ready to be delivered.

  The essence of doing this is to relieve pregnant women off pregnancy stress and to still keep women fit and in a good shape even while trying to make babies, and to make the babies grown navel unlike the test tube babies.

The Story of a Pregnant Man

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A husband has revealed how he carried and gave birth to his own daughter - because his wife could not fall pregnant.

Pictured sporting a beard as he showed off his pregnant belly, Chris Rehs-Duping tells how he and his wife Amy met and fell in love in their 20s, working at a children’s summer camp. They always knew they definitely wanted a family.

With Chris - who was born Christina - being a pre-op transgender male, however, they planned for Amy to be the biological mum.

But when five attempts of intrauterine insemination - fertility treatment that involves placing sperm inside a uterus to facilitate fertilizations – failed, Chris volunteered to carry their baby instead.

He finally gave birth to their now two-year-old daughter, Hayden, naturally on December 20, 2014, after five rounds of IUI treatment and a miscarriage.

Amy said: “We went through a lot of fertility treatments, until we finally reached a point where we needed to make a decision as to whether we were going to do more medical intervention or if we were going to switch bodies.

“We were fortunate enough to have two uteruses. So, after a lot of thought and emotion and difficulties we switched to Chris.”

And while Chris lived as a man and didn’t feel female, he was willing to use his womb for the good of their family.

It was another incredible step in this couple’s unique love story.

Chris, 33, who now runs children’s summer camps, explained: “When I went to university in 2007, I knew I wasn’t a woman and it was an easy realization to make.

“I didn’t want to take hormones, because I was happy with who I was and who I was presenting myself as, but I have always been very open with Amy.”

Still, Amy’s love for Chris meant his gender was not an issue.

She added: “By the time I met him, I knew the issue of his gender was at the forefront of his mind. And, eventually, he became more masculine and lived as a man.

Amy confessed: “When Chris was pregnant it was really difficult, because I always thought I would be the one to carry our children.

“It was definitely a strain and it was difficult.”

And while Chris started to experience the physical signs of pregnancy - he was constantly sick and his belly and breasts grew – his changing hormones strangely made his natural goatee beard grow thicker and more prominent.

“Some days, he looked like a man with a beer belly,” Amy joked.

Being pregnant was also a confusing time for Chris.

He admitted: “Being pregnant is such a female thing and that’s when I started to question that it was not what I was.

“Some people think men aren’t supposed to carry children, that’s the world we live in. So, I feel like the world would see it as emasculating, that it would make me less trans but not the case for me.

Sadly, though, Amy didn’t produce enough, so they decided together that Chris would breastfeed Hayden after all.

Then, in January 2016, he began having testosterone injections every 10 days, while Amy fell pregnant in the same month, on her first attempt.

While the baby grew, Chris was undergoing his transition. His facial hair grew, his shoulders broadened and his features became more masculine.

And their experiences, running in tandem, brought them closer.

“When I was the pregnant one, because I had a husband who had been there before, it was different. He understood what I was going through, what I was feeling. It was a benefit that not a lot of women have,” Amy said.

Amy said: “We’ve been on an incredible journey as a family, but we have two amazing kids and Chris is finally happy in his own body.”

He added: “We would love to have a third child. I hope to have breast reconstruction surgery, but will not have a bottom surgery, or have my ovaries removed, so I haven’t ruled out carrying it." 

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Couvade syndrome

Couvade Syndrome: The Curious Cases of Men Who Get Pregnancy Symptoms

A few men feel their accomplice's pregnancy more than others. We're talking morning-vomiting, back-throbbing, toothache-ing feels. These men are encountering Couvade disorder and they may be better fathers for it.

Pregnancy accompanies a lot of symptoms. There's a reiteration of disagreeable manifestations that may go with the job including queasiness, acid reflux, stomach torment, swelling, toothaches, fluctuating craving, inconvenience breathing, leg spasms, spinal pains, and genital disturbance. At that point there's the psychological stuff: nervousness, melancholy, diminished drive, fretfulness, inconvenience resting. These are for the most part understood basic side effects for mothers to-be. Pregnant mothers are probably going to run into a bunch of the abovementioned. Less notable is that a quarter to, by certain evaluations, half, of fathers-to-be likewise experience a bunch of the abovementioned. Numerous fathers feel, act, and, in case we're being straightforward here, look somewhat pregnant. They're not going insane. They're simply are encountering an abnormal and shockingly normal thing called Couvade disorder. Mothers, you can consider it outrageous feels. That genuinely isn't a long way from the case.

Couvade disorder is anything but a perceived illness. Accordingly, it's hazy whether the physical side effects felt aren't simply mentally affected or genuine to-god physical manifestations. What we cannot deny is that Couvade disorder is a type of outrageous male compassion for pregnancy and it's normal around the globe. What it resembles precisely, it appears, is profoundly subject to topography and culture

One investigation of Polish fathers, for example, found only four side effects pervasive among Couvade disorder sufferers: thoughtful weight gain, tooting, fluctuating cravings, and individual misery. Another investigation of first time fathers in Bengaluru in southern India found an a whole lot more extensive exhibit of side effects: Changes in hunger, fart, stoppage, acid reflux, weariness, queasiness, heaving, nourishment longings, loose bowels, stomach torment, cerebral pain, blacking out, toothache, weight reduction, weight increase, back torment, leg cramps, skin issues, a sleeping disorder, state of mind swings, crabbiness, crying, bad dreams, dejection, defenseless, blame, loathing. The thing that matters is distinct, yet the base of the indications have all the earmarks of being the equivalent: These fathers to-be were encountering beginning parenthood through the eyes of their spouses.

While the individual physical side effects seen here are a moderately later authentic wonder, Couvade disorder has social priority that goes back for centuries. "Couvade is any sort of social conduct that causes to notice the male to the obligations of thinking about the baby's endurance," clarifies Dr. Plain L'Engle Williams, an anthropologist and creator of Fathers and their Children in the First Three Years of Life. "The one thing they all share for all intents and purpose is it carries a dad from their exercises to the mother and the kid. It advises society that that youngster has a place with the dad and the dad has a place with the kid

For instance, tracker gatherers on the Trobriand Islanders, who live simply off the east shore of Papua New Guinea, utilize the custom to pass duty regarding a pregnancy over to a dad figure. A known "free-love" society, a Couvade custom is authorized to some extent to assign the dad to-be (organic or not). This father plays out a multi-day reproduction of birth torments during the mother's pregnancy to demonstrate his association with the worker. This is both compassionate to the pregnancy and fundamental — an appearing to the gathering this would be the dad and guardian of the kid.

Such performative ceremonies can at present be found the world over, yet in current occasions, it's a to some degree uncommon custom, happening in little pieces of the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia. "In our Western culture, a dad is essentially given a stogie," says Williams. "Be that as it may, it's a tremendous obligation to have a newborn child, and meriting a multi-day social experience. In the period of miscreant fathers, it makes you wonder if the ceremonial was developed to keep away from that."

It additionally may make you wonder if our response to not having an outlet for ceremonial parenthood is to feel — really feel, down to sickness and swollen feet — the mother's agony. Couvade disorder, all things considered, is far less performative than the social Couvade. It is close to home, physical, conceivably even organic. This abnormal bend, Williams contends, might have developmental roots.

Men experience a hormonal change right now of birth. Prolactin spikes, testosterone drops, and oxytocin increments. Change occurs. "There's a great deal of science in parenthood that is undetectable to the eye," says Williams. "What's more, it's something which may stay with them for the remainder of their lives."

Studies have demonstrated that lower testosterone levels in present day fathers may cultivate less hazard taking and better kid raising and this is something that developed in men in the course of the last five to 6,000,000 years. Men whose testosterone brought down were increasingly effective in raising newborn children, and their qualities were passed along. 

These inquiries are as of now left unanswered by science. More research is required. While the science makes up for lost time, in any case, there is a conspicuous exercise encompassing Couvade: Extreme sympathy of pregnant mothers in any structure makes for better-readied fathers.

"You out of nowhere observe yourself in an unexpected way," says Williams. "I think when there is a ton of holding with the life partner, this appears as a Couvade." What's a little weight pick up and back torment when you have that?

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gestation period

What is Human Gestation?

There are over seven billion people inhabiting the planet Earth. No two people are exactly alike, and the differences are too vast to count. However, there is one indisputable fact that bonds us all: every human being grew and developed inside a woman's body. This time we spent ''cooking'' in the womb is called gestation. You may know it as pregnancy.

Gestation, or Pregnancy

Gestation lasts approximately 40 weeks, or roughly nine months. However, some women may claim that it seemed more like 11 months! Of course, the amount of time does actually vary, from days to weeks. Gestation is divided into three main stages, or trimesters. Each trimester is about three months long. In the following sections, we will look at the gestational period of a human and understand the development that occurs in the various stages.

The First Trimester

You may remember the fifth grade ''talk'' about the birds and the bees. The thought of a tiny creature with a tail swimming into a woman and nine months later a baby appearing seemed absurd, but it's true, and this is where we begin the story. A human being originates when the sperm from a man wins the big race and becomes first to burrow itself into a woman's egg. This miraculous moment is known as conception.

The fertilized egg is now called a zygote. The zygote heads for the uterus and happily nestles into the uterine wall, where it will reside for the next nine months. Thus begins the most dramatic series of transformations of this tiny speck. It will start undergoing many cell divisions in its initial growth. By week five, organogenesis begins. Organogenesis is the development of the brain, heart, and other vital organs. What was once a zygote is now called an embryo.

Fetus at Eight Weeks

By week 12, things have progressed at an astonishing rate. The heart is beating, and all organs are formed. There are stubby little arms and legs present, and there are spots for eyes. Although fairly rudimentary and large-headed, this bun-in-the-oven is now called a fetus and resembles a tiny human being. The fetus weighs in at only about half an ounce, making it entirely possible that the mother doesn't even look pregnant yet.

The Second Trimester

Remember when I said the mother may not even look pregnant by the end of the first trimester? Here's where that dramatically changes. The second trimester, or roughly weeks 13 through 27, marks the decided growth of that tiny human as well as its continued development. If gestation were a drawing, then the first trimester would be the general outline. In the second trimester, detail is added, and shapes are enhanced.

During this time, the fetus continues to put on weight. The mother has most certainly popped out of her regular clothes because of her growing waistline. Such important components like red blood cells and bones are forming. The fetus develops a layer of fat, providing nourishment as well as future chubby cheeks. Adding to the finer details of development, a layer of hair has formed. Fingerprints and footprints are now present.

Most importantly, the immature lungs are now producing surfactant, a substance allowing them to inflate. It is the hope of parents and doctors alike that a fetus makes it to the 27-week mark in utero. Although still extremely premature, a baby born at this point at least has a chance of survival, in part due to the fact that it has lung surfactant.

There are many exciting aspects of the second trimester. Functioning muscles make movement of the fetus apparent, and everyone can feel the baby kick. This also marks the end of suspense for many parents-to-be. At about 20 weeks (and sometimes earlier), parents can view an ultrasound image to see whether their baby is a boy or a girl.


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