Alarm level: pregnant – diepresse.com
A developing fetus is a single stress test for the body, the load months after birth is still measurable. Much longer than before.
I’m pregnant, not sick! The European Athletics Champion Gesa Krause had to clarify several times and vehemently in interviews because her participation in competition was critically questioned as pregnant women. In view of an increasingly close monitoring of the time until birth, this sentence is likely to burn on the tongue. While social expectation pressure is great for over -caution in pregnancy, the grace period ends at the latest after the puerperium. But the body is long busy to balance the enormous stress.
An Israeli research group now used the analysis of 313,501 healthy pregnancies to draw a very detailed picture of how slowly the regeneration is going on after birth (Science Advances 11, p. 7922). The so -called fourth trimester – a term that the social anthropologist Sheila Kitzinger shaped in 1975 in order to point out the needs of women after the pregnancy, which typically divided into thirds – runs up to one year and beyond.
