Pregnancy Videos | During Second And Third Trimester Of Pregnancy

See Dr. Jay Goldberg elaborated more on the Second and Third Trimester Of Pregnancy. In these videos he will talk about the most common pregnancy symptoms and the what medical exam is been done during the second and third trimester and the ways to determine the gender of your baby too.

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What are common pregnancy symptoms during the 2nd trimester?

During the second trimester the common pregnancy symptom are:

• Your body typically not showing so much of being pregnant.
• You may start to develop something and only you will definitely notice but most people may not.
• You actually start to feel better during the second trimester. The breast tenderness sometimes lessens. The nausea sometimes dissipates quite a bit
• About 20 weeks where you can start to feel the baby move. Most women at about 20 weeks will feel the baby move. Some feel it at 18 weeks and some feel it even sooner, especially if it’s not your first baby. Some don’t feel it until 22 or 23 weeks in the second trimester. The most important factor here is if you did not feed the baby move after 23 weeks at all do consult your doctor, because there are reasons why you may not be feeling it, but you just want to be reassured.

What medical exams occur in the 2nd trimester?

In the second trimester the medical exams are a triple marker or known as Quad test and the AFP test which is a screening test that’s done between 16 and 18 weeks to determine the risk of certain abnormalities that can occur with the baby. In around 18 to 22 weeks, expecting mother patients should go for an ultrasound to look at the baby from head to toe and check the anatomy of the baby performs by a perinatalogist.

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What are common pregnancy symptoms during the 3rd trimester?

The third trimester can is a little more difficult because at this point you are starting to get a little bit bigger. The pregnancy symptom you may have:

• You may find it harder to sleep comfortably.
• You will get up throughout the night to urinate.
• You might get up throughout the night because your hips are sore or your arm falls asleep.
• You might get constipation and it’s not often uncommon for that to be followed by haemorrhoids.
• You tends to get a little tired easily.
• You start to kind of get over the ‘Oh I’m pregnant’ stage and start looking forward to the ‘I want to be a mummy’ stage.

What are common third trimester medical exams?

In the third trimester the first test that will be performed will be the gestational diabetes screening test. It’s simply a test in which you drink a concentrated sugar drink, and then get your blood drawn to determine what the level is. Based on the lab where this is drawn, if the level is higher than the cutoff, you will have screened positive for gestational diabetes. If so, then a more definitive diagnostic test will be performed. Most doctors perform a CBC, or a complete blood count, with that initial gestational diabetes screening to determine if anemia has set in, which is not uncommon in the third trimester of pregnancy. It may be recommended that you supplement iron during the third trimester of pregnancy as well.

How will my doctor determine my baby’s gender?

There are a couple of ways to determine the gender of your baby. You can have an ultrasound performed, typically after sixteen weeks, and if the baby is positioned correctly, the gender can be visualized. If you get an invasive test, like a CVS or an Amnio, if your age is over thirty-five, or if a screening test has come back positive for that, then those tests do determine the gender of the baby as well.