How to avoid malformation in pregnancy? When is the baby more likely to be malformed during pregnancy?

The biggest worry during pregnancy is the baby's deformity, so you should actively do prenatal checkups. In fact, you can prepare to avoid baby deformities during pregnancy preparation. So when is the most likely time for deformities during pregnancy?

How to avoid baby deformity when preparing for pregnancy

First, do not conceive when you are in a bad mood. Emotions are closely related to health and may also affect sperm quality. Negative emotional stimulation can affect the secretion of maternal hormones, making the fetus unwell and restless, affecting growth and development.

Second, do not conceive in an unfavorable environment. An unfavorable environment can affect human reproductive cells and cause abnormalities, so do not conceive in an unfavorable environment.

3. Do not conceive immediately after stopping the contraceptive pill. Women who take oral contraceptive pills are more likely to expel bad eggs, so they should stop taking the pills for at least two to six months before trying to have a child. Women who take out the contraceptive ring should also wait for 2-3 normal menstruations before conceiving.

Fourth, do not conceive during illness. Illness and medications can affect physical fitness and the quality of fertilized eggs. Therefore, if a couple suffers from an acute illness, they should recover, stop taking medication, and obtain the doctor's consent before conceiving.

Fifth, try to avoid getting pregnant in hot and cold seasons. In hot summers, the pregnant mother will have severe pregnancy reactions, poor appetite, reduced nutrient intake, and high body consumption, which can easily affect the fetal brain development. In cold seasons, the chances of contact with respiratory viruses increase, making it easy to catch a cold and damage the fetus.

Sixth, it is not advisable to get pregnant without a pre-pregnancy check-up. If you blindly get pregnant without understanding your physical condition, it may cause harm to your body if you have a disease, and it may also easily cause miscarriage of the fetus.

7. Smoking and drinking are not suitable for pregnancy. Tobacco and alcohol can cause changes in chromosomes and genes, which is harmful to the fetus.

8. Patients with digestive ulcers should not get pregnant. In the early stages of pregnancy, pregnancy reactions such as nausea and vomiting can lead to severe digestive ulcers. In the late stages of pregnancy, the fetus grows and the stomach shifts to the upper right, rotating 45 degrees, which can also easily aggravate ulcer lesions. At the same time, progesterone in the body can cause muscle relaxation in organs throughout the body, weak and less gastric motility, long retention time of food, irritation of the gastric mucosa, and aggravation of ulcers. Therefore, patients with digestive ulcers should actively seek medical treatment and get pregnant after obtaining the doctor's consent.

9. It is not advisable to get pregnant immediately after miscarriage or premature delivery. Women who have had premature delivery or miscarriage should wait at least six months, preferably one year, before getting pregnant.

When is deformity more likely during pregnancy

Taking medicine in the early stages of pregnancy may cause fetal malformation. The period from 5 to 10 weeks after menstruation is a sensitive period for teratogenicity, during which time the woman is very susceptible to the effects of external factors such as drugs, which may lead to fetal malformation.

The early stage is an important period for embryonic differentiation and organ formation. At the beginning, that is, within 2 weeks of conception (14-28 days after the last menstrual period), the embryo is still a single cell embryo, and important tissues and organs have not yet begun to differentiate, so this period is very safe.

In the 3rd to 8th week of conception (5th to 10th week of the last menstrual period), many important organs and systems of the embryo begin to develop, such as the central nervous system, heart, eyes, limbs, facial features, and genitals. If the embryo is affected by adverse factors during this period, the chance of deformity is very high.

At 9 weeks after conception (10 weeks after the last menstrual period), the baby officially enters the fetal period, and the various organs of the body are basically differentiated and are less affected by the outside world.

Will sperm abnormalities cause fetal abnormalities?

Sperm deformity does not necessarily lead to fetal deformity, it is not the same thing. Generally speaking, sperm deformity just means that its shape is a little abnormal, which has an impact on fertilization ability, but the main reason for affecting embryo quality is the intrinsic quality of sperm.

If the simple malformation rate is high, the fetal malformation rate and the probability of miscarriage are not high. However, if the sperm is partially abnormal, the sperm DNA fragmentation rate is high, the chromosomes are abnormal, etc., it may lead to an increase in the fetal malformation rate and an increase in the miscarriage rate.

Fetal malformation usually occurs in the first three months of a woman's pregnancy. If during this period, the pregnant woman is infected with pathogens, takes harmful drugs, or is exposed to environmental risk factors, it will directly affect the development of the fetus and can easily lead to fetal malformation or miscarriage.

Men should pay more attention in their daily lives, have a balanced diet, eat more zinc-containing foods, wear less tight pants, and exercise more. During the period when couples are preparing for pregnancy, men should pay more attention to their health. They can go to the hospital to check the vitality, quality, and quantity of sperm, so as to better prepare for pregnancy and give birth to a healthy and lovely baby.