Have you been pregnant more than once? And if the answer is "yes" Have you noticed differences between one pregnancy and another? Surely yes, in the same way as with already born children, it happens that siblings do not usually look alike, or that each one (having the same mother and the same father) acts in a different way.
The first pregnancy is almost a mystery because it is desired, but at the same time it is a biological process that has not yet been passed through; therefore it is also unknown. You feel an immense joy, mixed with some insecurity, and to this mezca we are adding hormones, body changes, which makes 40 weeks a kind of wonderful adventure. Six years have been researchers from the Hebrew University (Jerusalem) and the Hadassah Medical Center, involved in a study ...
Work It started from an idea according to which "the woman's body is capable of learning during the first pregnancy, in order to subsequently avoid difficulties in later getations." Research has been conducted on certain cells involved in pregnancy, and one of its objectives is to reduce complications in childbirth, through new lines of research that allow the development of drugs.
As pregnancy is a physiological and natural process, I am not too interested in the results or the progress of the research, but I do rescue some information that I find interesting. For example, there is talk of some cells, called NK, which have helped to discover other cells that during the second pregnancy are more active and perform their implantation mission better or by preventing pre-eclampsia; and this is because they "remember" the first pregnancy.
Does the second pregnancy work better than the first?
The chief of obstetrics and gynecology at Hadassah Medical Center, states that second pregnancies are more efficient. Ultimately, the study seeks to discover why a second pregnancy works better than the first, especially to help high-risk pregnancies.
On the other hand, and apart from official jobs, each mother has an experience, and each pregnancy passes differently. For example, there are the psychological and social factors that could influence more on a first pregnancy. Being more afraid, feeling inexperienced, not understanding the changes in the body, receiving the 'pressure' of the environment (wanting to predict the future or offering unsolicited help), etc ...
Physically it depends on several things such as the age in the first and subsequent pregnancy, the existence of previous illnesses, the season of the year, the age difference between children, working outside the home (and the number of hours), etc. . I believe that you cannot make strong statements, for example weight gain and its relationship with a faster growth of the belly in the second is often talked about. And regarding this, really the profit it is more related to the balance between caloric intake and expenditure, or with the weight of the baby; than with the belly, which is usually "noticed earlier", since the muscles have previously been subjected to this distention.
And when it comes to childbirth, the experience is very important, but a primiparous woman does not have to suffer greater stress or more complications. Have enough support, trust your body, and have been able to decide on the process These are issues that outweigh having faced the situation before.