Most babies are born around the 40th week of pregnancy. When a pregnancy continues past the 42d week, the placenta, which supplies the fetus with oxygen and nutrients, ages and becomes less efficient. ''The baby can have problems with its oxygen or food supply,'' Dr. Witter said. ''It may lose weight in utero and there may be fetal distress in labor.
Straining the first urine specimen of the morning is important, because a stone may pass into your bladder during the night. Look carefully at the strainer for a kidney stone. It may look like a grain of sand or a small piece of gravel.Any stone you find should be kept dry-do not put it in fluid or urine. kidney stone analysis is done to: 1  Find the chemical makeup of a kidney stone. 2  Guide treatment for a kidney stone. 3  Give information on how to prevent more kidney stones from forming.
acid in your urine, the more protected you are against forming new kidney stones. Citrate, used in calcium citrate supplements and in some medications (such as potassium citrate), is closely related to citric acid and also has stone prevention benefits. These medications may be prescribed to alkalinize your urine. How does citric acid protect against kidney stones? Citric acid makes urine less favorable for the formation of stones. In its natural form, such as from citrus fruits, citric acid does not alkalinize the urine as citrate (from medication) does. Rather, it prevents small stones from becoming âproblem stonesâ by coating them and. preventing other material from attaching and building onto the stones.