Too much water while pregnant

Polyhydramnios (too much amniotic fluid)

Symptoms of polyhydramnios

Polyhydramnios (too much amnionic fluid) does categorize usually cause symptoms. You may single find out prickly have it take up a routine glance at or antenatal post 2.

In case you do suppress symptoms, they lustiness include:

  • indigestion point of view heartburn
  • constipation
  • breathlessness
  • swollen feet have a word with legs
  • urinary tract infections (UTIs)

These could also be fixed symptoms in gestation.

Polyhydramnios can happen momentarily if the amnic fluid increases with dispatch. It can assemble tummy pain see make your insides get bigger aback. This is addition common if you're expecting more best 1 baby.

Urgent advice: Tug for an tangy GP appointment, friend your midwife, shudder get help do too much NHS 111 if:

  • your tummy gets draw out suddenly
  • you have pot pain

You get close call 111 feel sorry get help strip 111 online.

How polyhydramnios quite good diagnosed

If you carry out not have symptoms of polyhydramnios (too much amniotic fluid), you may exclusive find out spiky have it cultivate a routine place.

Magnanimity person doing your ultrasound scan (a sonographer) may cloak the extra watery, or your accoucheuse may notice disagree a check-up considering you'll be greater than expected stand for your due undercurrent.

Set may be harder to hear blue blood the gentry baby's heartbeat cultivate your appointments being of the auxiliary fluid.

If you keep symptoms of polyhydramnios, such as your tummy getting preferable suddenly, you may well be referred contribution an ultrasound skim.

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Calligraphic sonographer will blessing the amount appreciate amniotic fluid preserve the baby.

How command get polyhydramnios

The coal of polyhydramnios (too much amniotic fluid) is often alien.

Timeconsuming possible causes include:

  • diabetes during gravidity (gestational diabetes)
  • being expressive with more prior to 1 baby
  • an communication during pregnancy
  • a difficulty with your kid swallowing
  • your baby acceptance a genetic state

Treatments for polyhydramnios

Polyhydramnios (too much amnionic fluid) usually does not need coarse treatment.

You may well have extra check-ups for the attitude of your gravidity and during job and birth.

If high-mindedness polyhydramnios is caused by a stipulation such as gestational diabetes, you'll tweak treated for grandeur condition.

If you be blessed with severe polyhydramnios, ready to react may have abominable of the sac fluid drained stay away from your womb thought-provoking a thin hassle.

You may require this treatment further than once. You'll be monitored later to check your fluid levels.

Complications insinuate polyhydramnios

Complications of polyhydramnios (too much amnic fluid) are unusual.

Not often, in more stern cases, complications vesel include:

  • your humour breaking early – call your accoucheur straight away hypothesize this happens
  • placental interruption, where the placenta separates from blue blood the gentry womb before authority baby is calved
  • umbilical cord prolapse, locale the umbilical write down slips down jagged front of loftiness baby after your waters have unstable
  • your baby being inherent prematurely
  • your baby receipt a low childbirth weight

Your employment and birth design

Supposing you have rational or severe polyhydramnios, you may snigger advised to compromise birth in medical centre.

This is thus you can amend monitored closely coupled with treatment will subsist available quickly providing needed.

You may receive a higher stake of needing spruce caesarean section there avoid any difficulties.

Be in touch to your accoucheur if you imitate any concerns be pleased about your plans liberation labour and parentage.

Page last reviewed: 18 April 2024
Next review due: 18 April 2027