During pregnancy at a later date, girls may feel that the baby in the womb is hiccuping quite often. This process has its own explanation.
Almost all women during the third trimester of pregnancy can feel their baby hiccup. And many of them wonder: what is the cause of the hiccups? The baby can hiccup both day and night.
In many cases, the child's hiccupping process causes increased anxiety in the mother, because no one can tell about its exact cause. Scientists only make assumptions about the intrauterine hiccups of the unborn child. But in most cases, such an action of the baby should not become a reason for panic in the expectant mother, because hiccups appear in most children during intrauterine development, and at the same time they are born healthy.
What causes hiccups?
The diaphragm contracts due to the vagus nerve, which connects all internal organs of a person. This nerve runs directly through the diaphragm. If the nerve is located incorrectly, that is, it is pinched, there may be a risk of some consequences that will negatively affect the life of the body. Therefore, the brain receives a signal that a contraction of the diaphragm is necessary, due to which the vagus nerve is released.
The sound of hiccups is heard at the moment air leaves the lungs, it leaves through the glottis closed at this time.
What causes a baby to hiccup in the womb?
Almost all scientists believe that hiccups are a stage in teaching a child to breathe and suck independently. They believe that a full-term baby who has hiccupped in the mother's abdomen will move, breathe and suckle much more actively. In premature babies, these processes are much slower.
Another cause of intrauterine hiccups can be the swallowing of amniotic fluid by the baby.
If more than normal water has entered the baby's body, he begins to hiccup, thereby removing the excess.
The most disturbing version of the cause of hiccups is fetal hypoxia. This reason can be called the most serious, because it means that the baby in the womb does not have enough oxygen, as a result of this, the baby may even die. But the link between hiccups and hypoxia remains scientifically unproven.
If a child in the womb has hiccups for a long time and this worries the expectant mother physically, she should definitely consult a specialist. He will be able to more reliably determine the causes of hiccups.
To determine the exact diagnosis, cardiography is performed. With its help, uterine activity is determined and the number of heart contractions in the fetus is calculated. After that, ultrasound examines the blood flow connecting the placenta and the fetus.
