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Ultrasound Scan at 9 Weeks of Pregnancy
Congratulations! You've reached the third month of your pregnancy. Two months have passed and now you must be used to the feeling of being pregnant. Well, you can't feel your baby now, but that tiny one will soon start making small movements (though you may not be able to feel them). No doubt, you must be curious to know everything you can about your baby. In your ninth week of pregnancy, your doctor will recommend an ultrasound to know the size of your growing baby. In the ultrasound scan, you will get to see a tiny blob with a heartbeat in your uterus which will eventually grow to become your baby. Read on to know more about 9-week ultrasound scan.
Why Should You Have an Ultrasound at 9 Weeks?
The first ultrasound scan which will be conducted is called dating and viability scan. This scan is performed for the following purposes.
To check whether the baby is in the right position inside the uterus or not.
To rule out ectopic pregnancy and confirm that it is uterine.
A baby's heart starts beating around 6 weeks into the pregnancy. And by the 9th week, his heartbeat can be sensed. Therefore, to check the baby's heartbeat, an ultrasound will be conducted - it also helps a doctor determine whether the pregnancy is viable or not.
If you experience spotting or bleeding during this time, an ultrasound scan can help determine the cause of the same.
It can show the number of babies you are carrying. If you are having twins, it can be determined during the 9-week ultrasound scan.
Couples who have had an IVF treatment need scans to determine successful implantation and viability of the pregnancy.
How to Prepare for Your 9th Week Pregnancy Scan
If you are having a scan around 9 weeks, it will normally be a transvaginal scan (TVS). This is because at this time your baby will be too low in the abdomen or too small for an abdominal scan in early pregnancy. A TVS will allow your doctor to scan the uterus through the vagina. To prepare for the scan, first, you will need to empty your urinary bladder. A full bladder can get in the way of a clear picture during the scan, so a nurse will ask you to use the restroom while she prepares for your scan.
Since the probing is vaginal, you will need to undress from the waist down. It’s suggested that you wear loose clothing such as a long top with slacks or loose pants to avoid being fully undressed.
How Long Does it Take to Perform an Ultrasound Scan?
A typical scan would last for about 20 to 30 minutes. However, if the doctor has a hard time to get clear pictures, it might take a little longer. But, there’s no need to worry about it as women find transvaginal scans more comfortable than abdominal scans.
What Happens During an Ultrasound Scan?
During the ultrasound scan, you will be asked to lie down on an examination table or a bed. You will need to raise your knees in a position that the soles of your feet are flat on the bed. Your legs need to be kept apart, so the doctor has space to perform the scan. This is about the same position you’d take during an internal examination.
The probe will be covered with a sterile latex sheath that resembles a condom, and a lubricant gel will be applied on it so that it passes through the vagina with ease and generate clear pictures. The probe will be inserted two to three inches into the vagina to perform the scan. Although the procedure might feel a bit awkward, if you relax, it will be easier for your doctor to insert the probe. If you tense up your muscles, it can become uncomfortable and painful. So remember to take deep breaths and try to relax.
What Will You See on the Scan at the Ninth Week of Your Pregnancy?
Here is what you can expect in your 9-week ultrasound scan:
Your baby will measure about 2.3 cm and weigh close to 2 grams.
You will be able to see his head, body, and limbs. By now your baby will no more be an embryo and will be a foetus.
The heartbeat of a foetus can also be picked up in a 9-week ultrasound scan. It will be usually around 130 to 150 beats per second.
Your doctor will carefully examine the region around the gestational sac for any bleeding; a condition called subchorionic hematoma.
What Does It Mean to Have an Empty Yolk Sac During the 9th Week of Pregnancy?
The yolk sac envelops the developing foetus and the amniotic fluid. The yolk sac is contained within the gestational sac and is a source of nutrition for the developing foetus in early pregnancy. It is not visible until about 5 to 6 weeks into the gestation; hence it is a marker of the age of the foetus. When no yolk sac is seen around 6 weeks, it may be because there has been an error in remembering the dates of your last period. The doctor will then schedule another scan in a week or two to confirm the presence of a yolk sac. If it is still not seen around 9 weeks of pregnancy, then it is could be a sign of miscarriage. Sometimes there is no need to wait until the follow-up scan, if the 9-week ultrasound pictures show the gestational sac of about 25 mm or more, and there’s no yolk sac or embryo, the doctor will diagnose a miscarriage immediately.
What If Some Abnormalities Are Discovered in the Scan?
Scans can sometimes be inconclusive, hence there are strict guidelines that should be followed. Since doctors adhere to these guidelines, their findings are absolutely sure. Doctors look for minor abnormalities in the scans called “markers” that can indicate a more serious problem or could be just a variation of what is considered normal. So, if they find anything unusual, they may ask you to take tests such as CVS or amniocentesis to check if the chromosomes in the baby are normal.
If the foetus does have a serious problem, you can take time to think through your choices. They may include termination of pregnancy, preparing for a baby who might have special needs, or in extremely rare cases, carrying out a surgery on the foetus.
Ultrasound scans are extremely important to rule out problems and confirm a healthy pregnancy. So do not skip any. Go for ultrasound scans, get everything checked, and have a healthy and safe pregnancy!
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An Insight Into the Beautiful Bond Between a Father and Daughter
Fathers and daughters have a unique bond. Women who have a good relationship with their fathers are lucky enough to look back at their fond memories when they grow up. Having a good relationship with her father not only shapes a girl's childhood experience but also influences her behaviour towards other men later in life. If a girl’s father is erratic or completely absent by nature, then it creates a feeling of low self-esteem in her, and she might have trouble trusting men in general. Therefore, every parent should appreciate and understand the importance of a father’s role in the life of a girl.
Why is the Father-Daughter Relationship Important?
Building a father-daughter relationship at a young age is an essential aspect of a girl's psychological adjustments. Being emotionally attached to her father benefits a girl throughout her life. Here are some reasons why a strong bond between the father and daughter is crucial:
Fathers are role models. They lay a foundation of security, trust, and love.
Daughters tend to judge all the other men who come into their lives later based on the example their fathers set for them.
A girl develops confidence and self-esteem if she has a good bond with her father.
When a father gets involved in his daughter's education, she tends to do better as compared to girls whose fathers never get involved.
Girls have a better career because of the early influence of their fathers. They become more successful and achievement-oriented.
A loving father makes his daughter feel good about herself as he helps her during every stage of her life.
How Does a Father Influence His Daughter's Life?
Every father-daughter relationship goes through three different phases. Some are difficult while others are easy and fun, but they are all important.
1. When She is a Child
Also known as the 'hero dad-princess daughter phase', this first phase is easy and fun. During this phase, the daughter is the darling little princess, and the dad is her superhero. At this age, the father influences the daughter in the following ways:
Mental and Emotional Development
During the early stages of the girl’s life, the involvement of her father helps in her emotional and mental development. Children who are attached to their fathers are better at finding solutions to general problems. They also show less anxiety and withdrawal behaviours when they are close to their fathers.
A Sense of Security
Feeling secure is important for a girl as she grows up. It enables her to thrive in a relatively safe environment if she knows that her father is watching out for her. She also develops self-confidence and is free of inhibitions.
2. When She is a Teenager
This is a tricky phase. The daughter might start rolling her eyes at everything her father says, and it is not a very enjoyable phase for the father. In this situation, relationship problems may occur between a father-daughter. This phase starts when she is 11 years old and ends after she turns 21. This stage might get a little confusing for the father, but he must not forget that she is trying to figure out herself and the world. Many fathers prefer to step back a little and help her raise her self-esteem.
Moral Guidance
The father’s connection and communication will help the daughter make the right decisions. A father should provide stability and moral guidance to his daughter because this is the time when she is surrounded and tempted by bad influences.
Body Image
Having a good relationship with the father will help the girl make healthier choices in life. She also will have increased confidence.
Confidence
Fathers who are affectionate towards girls provide them with a sense of self-worth. Inability to deal with conflicts with their fathers or the absence of a father eventually leads to low self-esteem in girls.
Education
Girls are more likely to get straight A’s when the father is involved in academics. They also have better intellectual functioning and verbal skills.
3. When She is an Adult
Also known as the world’s greatest dad-adult daughter phase, this is the best phase. In this phase, both can understand and communicate with each other. This is the time when a father can guide his daughter in her career, marriage, and love.
Career
Fathers help their girls solve problems, think logically, become goal-oriented, and competitive. A father helps her follow her dreams and pushes her to believe in herself.
Romantic Relationship
Daughters learn more about relationships by observing their father’s actions and behaviour. They judge men based on the standard their father sets. Happy marriages are connected to a warm parent-child relationship. If the parents have marital problems, the girl tends to be insecure, anxious, and aggressive.
Ways to Strengthen Your Bond With Your Daughter
A girl is generally closer to her mother, which is why it is essential to build a father-daughter relationship at a very young age. Some ways are listed below:
When She is a Young Girl
Here's what you should do to strengthen your bond with your daughter when she is a child:
When she is a baby, respond quickly to her cries. Hold her, sing and talk to her as much as you can.
No matter how small it is, when she achieves some task, compliment her. If she is not able to complete a task give positive feedback.
Perform many activities together, especially sports.
Get involved in her projects, school work, and exam preparation.
Meet her friends and help them organise a get-together party.
When She is a Teenager/Adult
Here's how you can bond with your teenage daughter:
Invest time in your daughter. Spending ordinary time with her would help you two bond.
Take her for a drive, just the two of you.
When she is a teenager, privacy and space are essential. Therefore, give her some space but always make sure that she knows you will be available if she needs you or when she gets into trouble.
Trust your daughter.
Sharing your emotions with her will help her share hers with you.
Always give positive feedback and talk encouragingly. Criticising her will decrease her confidence and self-esteem.
Pay attention to her when she is with you. Show interest in her problems and life. Be sensitive.
Set some ground rules but grant her with the right amount of freedom.
Ways to Fix a Broken Father-Daughter Relationship
It's never too late to bond with your daughter. Don't forget that she was once your baby girl.
Healing starts when you share your emotions with others. So share your pain or feelings with her by talking/writing to her.
Every individual has the power to control everything in his or her life. So, you should not let the past decide your present and future.
Get candid with her. She was not responsible for your absence, and she needs to know that whatever happened was not her fault.
Talk to your daughter and let her know how much you missed her. Ask her about how she coped up with your absence.
Give her confidence. Assure her that you will not leave her again and will be there for her.
Give her some time to accept the reality and have patience. She might not accept you at the moment, but you can win her confidence with your perseverance.
Effects of a Father's Absence on the Daughter
Reasons like legal separation, divorce, death, or incarceration can separate children from their parents. But sometimes, the busy schedule of the father can make the daughter feel the same way. His absence can have numerous effects on the overall well being of the girl. Girls without a father could be deprived of confidence, attention, and self-worth.
The absence of a father creates a void in the daughter's life, and others try to influence her attitude and actions. Such girls often allow people to define them and could exhibit attention-seeking behaviour without even realising it.
The absence of a father might jumpstart puberty because it triggers hormonal changes in girls. This reason along with so many behavioural problems could be one of the reasons why girls without fathers have early menstruation or teenage pregnancies.
Girls tend to seek the help of their fathers in their academics, especially when it comes to STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) subjects. Girls without a father figure might have less interest in these subjects, and this might discourage them from pursuing a career in mathematics.
Fathers tend to bond better with their sons than daughters. However, with a little more understanding, fathers can feel very comfortable with their daughters and bond better with them too.
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This Is a Dangerous Nail Condition That Can Affect Your Child
Nail fungus constitutes about half of all nail abnormalities. Yet we know so little about it. The fungal infection of nails generally won't pose a serious problem in kids, but nails may sometimes show signs of damage and even become painful!
Fungal infection of the nails is not usually serious, but it can be unpleasant for your child and in some cases, difficult to treat. Fungal infections normally develop over time and can take even longer to go. When your child has a fungal nail infection, it can be uncomfortable or painful to wear shoes. He will find it hard to walk or stand as well. Here's the scariest part: the fungus could also spread to other nails and the skin, even causing permanent damage to the nail bed!
The Different Types of Nail Fungus - Here's How to Identify Them
Before moving on to the types, it’s important to know what nail fungus actually is. It’s an infection of the toenails and fingernails that enters through cracks in the nail or the skin. The problem worsens if you live in a warm and damp environment.
1. Yellow or White Nails
Distal Subungual Onychomycosis (DSO) is the most common type of fungal infection. Here, the infection starts at the end of the nail bed, turning a part of the nail yellow or white in colour.
2. Chalk-like Powder on Nails
White Superficial Onychomycosis (WSO) affects the top layer of the nail, forming white spots on the surface and eventually covering the whole nail with chalk-like powder.
3. Fungus on Toes
Candida Onychomycosis, also called yeast infection, is fairly uncommon and mostly affects the fingernail rather than the toenail.
Causes for Nail Fungus in Kids
Different fungi, yeasts and moulds can be a cause of nail fungus. Sometimes, a fungus may infect a child if he/she has an immune system disorder. Other causes include but aren’t limited to blood circulation problems, nail injury or nail surgery, and athlete's foot.
Symptoms of Nail Fungus
The most common symptoms are thickened nail and discolouring, which may be white, black, yellow or green. In cases where the infection persists for long, nails may become brittle, and onycholysis may set in if the condition is still left untreated.
Treatments for Nail Fungus in Children
The doctor may clip off a piece of the nail for a culture test before prescribing antifungal medicine. The best chance of curing a fungal nail infection is through antifungal pills, but they can have side effects. New methods like laser treatment and ultrasound have also been introduced.
Prevention of Nail Fungus
Keep your child's hands and feet clean and dry and get them to wear shoes that allow the feet to breathe. Also keep socks clean and nails trimmed.
Home Remedies for Nail Fungus
Soak the affected area in a solution of vinegar and warm water for 15 to 20 minutes every day. Rub a topical cream on the nail. Other natural remedies for nail fungus include tea tree oil, lavender oil and oregano oil.
Is Nail Fungus Contagious?
Yes, it is. Although it’s not classified as highly contagious, it’s still very easy for fungal nail infection to spread from one person to another especially if you use public showers, pools and locker rooms.
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Giving Time to Your Husband While Taking Care of the Baby
Both mother and father love their baby equally. First-time moms spend a lot of time with their baby and husbands admire their wives even more when they take care of their baby so efficiently. Before the birth of the baby, it's only you and your husband and an addition to the family is a big change for you as well as your husband. When the baby is born, a woman's attention shifts from her husband to her baby. However, husbands require that love and compassion too. They remain silent and let you do your job. But a woman should try to balance both her husband and baby.
Here's what you can do to give time to your husband -
1. Take help of your parents while taking care of the little one. I'm not suggesting that you depend on them but just take some advice and time. In that time, you can talk to your husband and ask him about how he feels after the arrival of the baby, and what are the changes he sees in you after the baby's arrival.
2. Try to work together as a team while building up your new family. You can ask your husband to massage the baby. I used to do that. Skin to skin contact can strengthen the bond between baby and daddy and dad's are extremely good at it.
3. Whenever you get time especially in the first 3 months, you will crave for sleep and may not have enough time for your husband. Let him know how you feel in those moments. If you are tired, have body pain, or are feeling low, you will expect your hubby to understand you without you telling them, but that's not true. But men are bad at it usually, and they would want you to speak about the problems you are facing.
4. Do go out on weekends with your husband and your little one, once you feel your health has improved and your baby has adjusted well. This will strengthen the family bond and will help you feel good about yourself. I hope these tips that I tried will help you build a happy family.
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5 Sensible Hacks to Get a Stunning Shoe-Rack
Storing your entire footwear collection in the closet can make it space-starved for apparel and accessories. So, should you buy extra closets to place your shoes? Not at all! With these creative shoe storage ideas, you can organise your footwear in affordable yet efficient style without the extra cost.
Sports shoes, dress shoes, school shoes, flip-flops, rain shoes...these are just a few types of footwear that you have to deal with. Struggling to stow them away so you get a modicum of neatness is every mom's bane. If you always have to contend with too many shoes and not enough space, even after chucking junk shoes, it's time to come up with space-saving shoe storage ideas that work for both small and large homes.
Creative Homes for Your Footwear
1. Floating Shoe Racks
Shoe racks are affordable and convenient solutions to tackle shoe storage woes. You can install a floating shoe rack or two in your bedroom. This beats standing racks that take up much more space. If you don't really like the idea of displaying your shoes for everyone to see, install the rack in a niche and cover the space with a pretty curtain. Try gluing multiple PVC cells to create a pipe shoe rack. You can spruce it up further by painting it in vivid colours.
2. Peek-a-Boo! Shoe Storage Solutions Under The Bed
There's plenty of space under the bed that's not fully tapped. If your children sleep on individual beds, you can ask them to store their shoes beneath them. While they could use the original shoeboxes, it'll be easier to access them from shoe organiser boxes that can slide right under. Another clever shoe storage idea is to attach shoe pouches beneath bedskirts. Nobody will ever know your storage secret but you'll have everyone wondering how you manage to keep your house so neat!
3. Get Shoe Wheels
You can save everyone from tripping over shoes by designating a specific shoe storage place for every family member and setting up shoe wheels. This creative shoe storage idea is often missed even though it's perfect for fitting into small corners. You can also get half wheels if one wheel will take too much space or buy both full and half wheels to place in different sized niches.
4. Try Shelves and Bags
Invest in wall-mounted shelves to flaunt your designer shoes. For a budget storage idea, you can hang economical shoe organiser bags on your bedroom wall. If you have any extra towel rods lying around, just mount them on a wall to hang up your heels, according to colour.
5. Vintage Shoe Storage!
Do you have any old ladders or wood crates lying around? You can upcycle them to create chic vintage-inspired shoe storage spaces. Those gorgeous heels that you take out only on special occasions can be hung on a painted ladder for quick access. If you have more space to spare, a wooden crate with a cover can make for a fine storage unit. You can even ask your little ones to paint pretty things on it and add a few cute stickers.
You can now create ample footwear space for everyone at home with these easy shoe storage solutions. Your children will find it easier than ever to keep their shoes where they belong and you'll have less of a headache trying to tidy up all the time. Enjoy a tumble and stumble-free home for you've earned it! Read more
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