Can the 42-day postpartum reexamination be postponed for a few days? Postpartum reexamination can be postponed for 42 days, but it is not recommended to postpone for a long time. A few days is ok. For pregnant women, childbirth is a very big trauma to the body. All aspects of the body will change after delivery, and it takes a month and a half to recover from the wound. In order to be healthy, you need to go to the hospital for reexamination after delivery. Women are reexamined 42 days after delivery, but mothers are not required to reexamine 42 days after delivery. In fact, it is no problem to do it between 42-56 days after delivery.
The 42-day postpartum examination is mainly to understand the recovery of the mother's body, find various diseases of the mother, and avoid the harm of the mother's illness to the baby's health. Through postpartum examination, mothers can get postpartum nutrition and contraceptive guidance. In the postpartum examination, we mainly check the breast, uterus, blood pressure, blood sugar and wound. It can also guide women's breastfeeding and postpartum contraception.
It is very important to check the uterine recovery in time 42 days after delivery, which can be done by abdominal ultrasound or vaginal ultrasound. If there is inflammatory infection, such as abnormal secretion of leucorrhea or backache and abdominal pain, it is necessary to carry out routine examination of leucorrhea and check the recovery of vulva. At the same time, if there are abnormal blood pressure, blood sugar and endocrine during pregnancy, it is necessary to check whether the blood pressure, blood sugar and endocrine thyroid function are normal after delivery.
What items does the baby check again 42 days after delivery? There are still many items in the baby's reexamination 42 days after delivery, all of which are very important. When the baby is reexamined 42 days after delivery, the routine examination includes the basic growth and development level, including the measurement and evaluation of body length, weight and head circumference, so as to find out the growth retardation and head circumference dysplasia in time and judge whether the feeding is good or not. Physical examination, including cardiopulmonary auscultation, especially the preliminary screening of congenital heart disease;
Check the baby's complexion and skin for abnormal yellow staining, skin infection, eczema, umbilical exudation or bleeding; Vision and hearing screening; Physical examination mainly screens congenital hip dysplasia. It is also necessary to do neurobehavioral development assessment, mainly early screening of cerebral palsy; In addition, when individual babies have other abnormalities, doctors need to make a preliminary differential diagnosis and further guide the examination direction if necessary.
At 42 days, the baby's height is between 49.6 and 63.2 cm, and its weight is between 3.35 and 7.15 kg. Every baby's height and weight have individual differences, which are related to heredity and feeding, as long as the baby's indicators are within the above range. At this stage, the baby will consciously smile, but the smile at this time is regardless of acquaintances or strangers. You can lift your head for a while, and your eyes can move horizontally with the object. It is necessary to take the baby outdoors.