Antenatal Care
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What is another word for antenatal? Antenatal: What is it? What is prenatal care? Why is prenatal care important? What tests will you have during pregnancy? Answer How big will your bump get? Answer How often do you need prenatal visits? Answer What is another word for antenatal? Prenatal Antenatal: What is it? Being or happening before birth Prenatal care, also known as antenatal care, is a type of preventive healthcare. It is provided in the form of medical checkups, consisting of recommendations on managing a healthy lifestyle and the provision of medical information such as maternal physiological changes in pregnancy, biological changes, and prenatal nutrition including prenatal vitamins, which prevents potential health problems throughout the course of the pregnancy and promotes the mother and child's health alike.[1][2] The availability of routine prenatal care, including prenatal screening and diagnosis, has played a part in reducing the frequency of maternal death, miscarriages, birth defects, low birth weight, neonatal infections and other preventable health problems. How often do you need prenatal visits? Recommended Schedule for a Healthy Pregnancy For a healthy pregnancy, your doctor will probably want to see you on the following recommended schedule of prenatal visits: Weeks 4 to 28: 1 prenatal visit a month Weeks 28 to 36: 1 prenatal visit every 2 weeks Weeks 36 to 40: 1 prenatal visit every week American Academy of Pediatrics https://www.aap.org/ American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists https://www.acog.org/# https://www.acog.org/clinical-information/physician-faqs/-/media/3a22e153b67446a6b31fb051e469187c.ashx Preventing problems for mothers and babies depends on an operational continuum of care with accessible, high quality care before and during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postnatal period. Here are further facts. |
