Forty weeks of pregnancy is not yet born, this situation should not be nervous, as long as the baby is born in forty-two weeks are normal.
If you are pregnant beyond the expected date of birth, you need to go to the hospital for prenatal examination, according to the specific situation of the fetus to decide to continue to wait or clinical intervention to terminate the pregnancy and so on.
1. Continue to wait: through the examination of the fetus is not hypoxia, the fetal heart is normal, amniotic fluid is normal, the function of the placenta is normal, the pregnant woman’s blood pressure, blood sugar and other indicators are normal, need to continue to wait.
2. Clinical intervention to terminate the pregnancy: through the fetal heart monitoring there is intrauterine hypoxia, or amniotic fluid turbidity, amniotic fluid volume is too small and other phenomena, need to be hospitalized in a timely manner, if the cervix is not ripe, the need for cesarean section to terminate the pregnancy.
If the pregnancy is more than forty-one weeks old and the baby hasn’t started, a doctor’s intervention is also needed if necessary. You can induce contractions under the guidance of a doctor with a drip of oxytocin, a vaginal prostaglandin vaginal pessary, and so on.
A pregnancy that has not started at 40 weeks requires close monitoring by a doctor, who will decide on the treatment based on the condition of the mother and fetus.