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Definition
Antenatal care is a preventive obstetric health care program aimed at optimizing maternalfetal
outcome through regular monitoring of pregnancy. Antenatal care will help ensure:
Best possible health status for mother and fetus
- Early detection and timely referral of high-risk pregnancy,
- Education of the mother about:
- Physiology of pregnancy
- Nutrition
- Alarming signs and symptoms
- Infant care
- Breastfeeding
- Child spacing
Schedule of Antenatal Care Visits
Antenatal visits-area time-when women are particularly receptive to messages about
pregnancy. Antenatal care can detect anemia, hypertensive disease, infections and oth
existing conditions and diseases that lead to high-risk pregnancy.
- Antenatal visits should take place:
- To 28th weeks gestation every 4 weeks
- 28th-36th weeks every 2 weeks
- Thereafter every week
- In a normal pregnancy, with no complications, a minimum of three antenatal visits is
- acceptable in the first 20 weeks.
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