Prenatal diagnosis is a complex medical act which is the most important for prevention of genetic diseases.
There are four procedures that have entered the current practice: imaging techniques (ultrasound, MRI, radiology), amniocentesis, chorionic villi biopsy and PUBS (percutaneous umbilical cord blood sampling).
The following are the tests most often used for this purpose.
Lumbar sciatica is one of the most unpleasant problems that pregnancy will bring. Back pain and numbness of the upper back area, will most of the time add to a woman’s general discomfort.
Although in early pregnancy, weight gain is not a really big deal (you become big in the last few months), pregnant women will say that lumbar sciatica symptoms may occur at this stage, as well. However, the way that pregnant women manage to escape the lumbar pain — which by the way are quite annoying — is quite simple: you need to do those physical exercises that your doctor has recommended.