According to surveys, the mother\’s age has a significant impact on the disease. The incidence rate is only 1/1500 in women aged 25-29 years old, increases to 1/800 women aged 30-34 years old, and reaches 1/800 women aged 35-39 years old. /250, and over 40 years old can reach 1/100-1/50.
So, how should older women have a healthy pregnancy?
Magic weapon 1 – stay in good shape
1. If you plan to have a child, it is best to get pregnant as soon as possible
2. Actively treat some physical diseases
Pregnancy after the age of 35 is more likely to cause high blood pressure or diabetes, which will not only affect conception, but also greatly affect the health of mother and child after pregnancy. You must take active treatment before getting pregnant, and then get pregnant after being completely cured.
3. Go to the hospital for a comprehensive health check-up before pregnancy, including your husband. If there is an abnormality, treat it actively and adjust the body to its healthiest state.
4. Get enough sleep every day. Adequate sleep can help you improve your body\’s immunity, enhance the function of organ tissues, especially the reproductive system, and help form high-quality fertilized eggs.
5. Eat adequate nutrition. Preparing your diet is also important. Pay attention to supplementing fresh vegetables, fruits, eggs, milk, lean meat and other foods rich in high-quality protein every day to prepare nutritional reserves. Adequate and excellent nutrition helps increase egg production. the quality of.
6. Pay attention to preventing pregnancy-induced hypertension syndrome after pregnancy. Pregnancy-induced hypertension syndrome is prone to occur in late pregnancy. Therefore, in the middle and late stages of pregnancy, you should frequently monitor your blood pressure, pay attention to controlling salt intake, absolutely avoid smoking and alcohol, and do not overwork your body. Once edema occurs, treatment measures must be taken as soon as possible.
7. Pay attention to relaxation during pregnancy. Older pregnant women are more mature psychologically than younger women. They have more worries about pregnancy and childbirth. During pregnancy, they often worry about the fetus and are in a state of tension. In fact, as long as various health care measures are strengthened, the baby can be born safely. Don\’t worry too much, otherwise it will not be conducive to normal delivery.
Baby 2 – Go to prenatal diagnosis after pregnancy
1. Maternal Blood Screening Test
Currently, maternal blood screening is the first choice for early detection of children with congenital intellectual disabilities. Eugenics experts recommend maternal blood screening at 8-9 weeks of pregnancy, and pregnant women over 35 years old are one of the key screening targets. This kind of examination is safe and non-invasive, and the screening rate can reach 60%-80%. Suspicious fetuses found through screening can be diagnosed through amniotic fluid diagnosis with an accuracy of 99%. Now some large hospitals in China can perform this kind of examination, such as Beijing Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital and Peking Union Medical College Hospital.
2. Chorionic villus cell examination 40-70 days after pregnancy is the most suitable time for this examination. By taking the chorion, you can diagnose whether the fetus has a genetic disease, and the accuracy is very high. The time of this examination is earlier than that of amniotic fluid examination.To diagnose fetuses in the second trimester to the first trimester. Once fetal abnormalities are discovered, prompt abortion in the first trimester can not only avoid the birth of a defective fetus, but also avoid the pain of induced labor in the second trimester.
3. Amniocentesis This test is mainly used for women with high-risk pregnancies. At present, with the assistance of B-ultrasound, the amniotic fluid is punctured at 16-18 weeks of pregnancy, and the cells shed by the fetus are removed for chromosome analysis, thereby performing intrauterine diagnosis of the fetus to determine whether there are hereditary or inborn metabolic diseases.
4. Ultrasound examination at around 20 weeks of pregnancy. For pregnant women with high-risk pregnancy factors, prenatal ultrasound diagnosis can screen the fetus for major structural abnormalities. It should be pointed out that prenatal ultrasound diagnosis is fundamentally different from traditional obstetric ultrasound. Traditionally, obstetric ultrasound has been limited to fetal growth monitoring and intrauterine condition monitoring, while prenatal ultrasound diagnosis can conduct detailed examination of various fetal system structures.
