The phrase
"early gestation" refers to the early stages of pregnancy when the fertilized egg begins to develop and grow inside the mother's womb.
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Pregnant women need to protect themselves in every possible way not to get chilled
at early gestations, inter alia, on the 8th week.
Those who are lucky might not discover their pregnancy until several weeks into it, allowing them to skip past some of the most worrisome days
of early gestation.
Using month of birth, the researchers identified
early gestation as a timeframe that appears to be particularly sensitive to long - term effects of prenatal famine.
Earlier studies in other populations in the Netherlands led by Dr. Lumey examined the long - term impact of famine exposure and
identified early gestation as the most critically sensitive period.
«The robustness of the patterns we observed in the different control groups points to
very early gestation as the period when the fetus is especially sensitive to the environment.
The physiological basis for this aversion stems from a reduced rate of urea synthesis during pregnancy that is evident in early gestation [5] as well as increases in the stress hormone cortisol [6].
DNA methylation changes were also seen among individuals conceived at the height of the famine between March and May 1945 who were not exposed to all 10 weeks
of early gestation.
«The most important finding of our study is the dose - response relation between the severity of famine exposure
in early gestation and the likelihood of later diabetes,» said L.H. Lumey, MD, Mailman School of Public Health associate professor of Epidemiology and the study's first author.
If you induce at 41 weeks, the proper comparator is expectant management at 41 weeks or even maybe induction at
an earlier gestation, but not spontaneous labor at an earlier gestation because demonstrably that did not happen.
«Our findings to date are very exciting however, and further expand previous insights on the importance of
the early gestation period gained from famine studies in other settings.»
«We show that the strong season of birth effects on late life diabetes among individuals born in the years 1930 - 1938 in all Ukraine regions were substantially larger for births in the first half year of 1934 in famine regions, especially after famine in
early gestation,» noted Lumey.
Men and women exposed in
early gestation to the human - made Ukrainian Famine of 1932 - 33 in regions with extreme food shortages were 1.5 times more likely to be diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in adulthood.
A diet of this type, before and during pregnancy, may make the birth process easier and faster — especially if the mother does not have narrow pelvic arch / hips caused by nutritional deficiencies in her own conception and early gestation
Supports moderate levels of activity as well as broodmares during
early gestation.
A common mistake is to overfeed the bitch during
early gestation and to underfeed during lactation.
All were stillbirths with very low weight and
early gestation.