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Fetal distress
Fetal distress refers to signs of illness in the baby prior to birth. In order to check the well-being of the baby while you are in labor, your health care providers will monitor the baby's heart rate. While fetal heart monitoring does not prevent a problem from occurring, but changes in the baby's heart rate can help to alert the health care provider that something might be wrong.
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What is fetal distress?
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What causes fetal distress?
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A 33-year old male asked:
What is the definition or description of: Fetal distress?
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Fetal heart rate has dropped below 70, is this considered fetal distress?
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A 37-year old asked:
Can the sickle cell trait cause fetal distress?
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A 29-year old female asked:
What is considered frantic fetal movement? 29w5d baby makes some sudden, repetitive, hard movements that shake me over. Like jabs. Distress? Seizures?
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A 31-year old female asked:
What are the chances of a fetus going in distress during labor and needing emergency c section? My first labor and delivery went pretty smooth?
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A 18-year old female asked:
What causes fetal distress ? Any way I can prevent it from happening to my baby during my pregnancy?
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A 31-year old female asked:
Is it normal to see a fetus on the u/s but no gestional sac and no fetal pole, even if I measure right at 6wk. When I'm 6wk by my last peroid.
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A 35-year old female asked:
Pregnant. Bought new nursery furniture/assembled & it has strong odor. Been in room with it for about 2 hours. Worried about off-gassing of harmful chemicals. Whats this smell? Can/did it hurt fetus from exposure? Should I avoid that room?
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How accurate is the fetus' age provided by the u/s if done at 6 weeks?
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What point is an embryo, fetus, or baby considered a human being in the u.S.?
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A 25-year old female asked:
Dr told me on 4/24 that my baby was measuring 7w/5d fetal age fr the u/s and gave me a DD of 12/7. Shouldn't my due date be 30w/1d fr 4/24?
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I did an abortion but didn't bleed. The u/s showed 5weeks and 6days fetus and no heartbeat. Heartbeat would still be possible at 7 weeks and 4days?
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A 32-year old female asked:
If 1st trimester u/s are off by a week, than would this mean fetus gest age would be off? Would fetus be 11 or 13 weeks then when it measured 62mm?
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Would there be a (big) difference in the measurement if a 12wk old fetus compared to a 9wk old fetus? The gestational age would be determined in u/s?
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A 28-year old female asked:
By LMP I am 7w4d today. U/s 2 weeks ago told me turning 5w. Only sac, baby barely visible. Today, fetal pole and hb but baby measuring 5w6d. Problem?
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A 29-year old female asked:
Had my first u/s today measured 6 weeks...The tech only saw a gestatbional sac..No yolk or fetal pole. Said everything looked ok..I'm still worried???
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A 33-year old female asked:
Which is more common, over-age or under-age a 7 week 2 day old fetus with transvaginal u/s?
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U/S on 4/28 dated me @7w/5d.Dr said it's fetal age.Another on 5/30 that gave me a due date of December 4th. When did I conceive?
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Lmp 1/3 edd 10/10. U/s edd 10/22 fetus almost 2wk younger with u/s tech est LMP 1/15 this LMP not possible. Large yolk sac with thick ring. Bad sign?
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A 23-year old female asked:
Pretty sure that my fetus s no less than 5w but gestational sac is barely seen..3days ago hCG 4518..Today 8315..No pain no bleeding..Should i worry ?
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7 weeks 5 days ; spotting (pinkish) started on 12/11/22; first U/S on 12/13/22: GS measured small at a week behind fetus, GS (7.7mm) YS (2.4mm) CRL (5.3mm) FHR (130bpm); spotting cont. for a week but went from pink to bright red to brown?miscarry?
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How does a fetus develop?
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A 26-year old female asked:
How to increase fetus weight?
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Would like to how the fetus looks week by week?
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A 41-year old female asked:
What are the effects of meselamine tab. 500 mg. On a fetus?
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A 32-year old female asked:
What determines if a fetus is "measuring small?" how is this figured out?
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A 19-year old female asked:
Does a 14w u/s scan of the fetus look noticeably different than a 10w u/s scan?
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