Each future mother is looking forward to her baby, and tries to make the course of pregnancy as possible. But it happens that the next campaign to the doctor ends with terrible words "You have fetal hypoxia". Ignorance of what fetal hypoxia means and how it can lead to panic and even more harm to the baby. So, let's start studying this question.
What is it?
Hypoxia of the fetus in medicine is called insufficient supply of oxygen to organs, cells and tissues in the womb of the baby. This process can still be called oxygen starvation. And it should be noted that not only the child suffers, but also the pregnant one, because their body is still one whole.
Why does fetal hypoxia occur?
Recently, such a diagnosis is found more and more often. You can certainly attribute here and our disgusting ecology or negligence of women to their health. However, more reasonable reasons are:
- previous or existing anemia of the mother;
- pathology in the work of the cardiovascular system;
- diseases of the bronchi or lungs, in which the body is not adequately supplied with oxygen;
- chronic kidney disease;
- low or high blood pressure;
- damage to the body of the mother or fetus by infection.
Fetal hypoxia and smoking
It is clear that to give up the habit, worked out over the years, is very difficult. Remember that with each puff, you actually hamper the breathing of the fetus, but also infect nicotine with its vessels and nerve cells.
What threatens the fetal hypoxia?
In the first trimester, it is fraught with various deviations from the formation of tissues and organs, a variety of defects and developmental lag. The most unfavorable outcome may be miscarriage or death of the fetus in the uterus. Also, a logical continuation of intrauterine oxygen starvation can be acute fetal hypoxia in childbirth. In this case, the whole body of the child suffers, the heart, the brain, its activity decreases, the breathing slows or becomes more frequent, there is a threat of hitting the amniotic fluid
Consequences of fetal hypoxia
We have already described its impact on the child with the initial terms. However, the effects of fetal hypoxia are spreading even on the newborn. They can be the most unpredictable. This is a decrease in mental activity, a delay in the overall development of the body, failure of organs and so on. All these consequences of fetal hypoxia for the child can be prevented by timely and constant visits to their attending physician and strict adherence to all recommendations and treatment plans.