Patient's question:
Some people say my stomach looks a bit small. I'm almost 25 weeks pregnant. This morning, I went to the Maternal and Child Health Hospital for a check-up. I didn't have an ultrasound, but the measured fundal height is 18 cm, and the abdominal circumference is 84 cm. Is my stomach small?Doctor's answer:
The due date should be calculated by subtracting 3 months or adding 9 months from the first day of the last menstrual period and adding 7 days. However, there is an allowable margin of two weeks. This is because the normal human gestation period is approximately 40 weeks. In medicine, the first day of the last menstrual period is often used as the starting point for calculating the due date. A normal pregnancy lasts about 265 days (starting from the day of ovulation). Ovulation occurs in the middle of the menstrual cycle, so a 40-week (280-day) pregnancy is two weeks longer than the actual time from ovulation.2. High-frequency exposure can have a certain impact on embryonic development.
3. Sexual activity before pregnancy does not cause miscarriage.
4. During the early stages of pregnancy (the first three months), Sliyan tablets should be taken. After three months, they can be discontinued.