Treatments
Pregnancy care
For Positive Pregnancy Experience
- physical and sociocultural normality
- healthy pregnancy (preventing and treating risks, illness)
- Effective transition to positive labor and birth
- Achieving positive motherhood (maternal self-esteem, competence, and autonomy)
Pre conceptional care and counselling
- Goals: Identify, educate and possible intervention options for the potential risk to the mother, foetus and pregnancy.
- We concentrate on:
- Nutrition, folic acid supplementation and weight management
- Reproductive history
- Substance use, including tobacco, alcohol, and no prescribed drugs
- Infectious diseases and vaccinations
- Chronic diseases (e.g., diabetes, hypertension, oral health)
- Medications known to be teratogens
- Genetic conditions and family history
- Environmental hazards and toxins
- Family planning
- Social and mental health concerns
1st trimester period
- 1st trimester NT scan evaluation with double marker/NIPT for trisomy 21 at 11 weeks to 13 weeks 6 days.
- Assign viability and gestational age.
- 1st trimester anomaly scan
- Identify, evaluate, and intervene high risk factors for foetus and mother.
2nd trimester
- 2nd trimester fetal anomaly scan (TIFFA) at 20 weeks of gestation
- Gestational diabetes screening at 24 to 28 weeks of gestations
- Screen for anaemia
- Vaccination
- FetalGrowth monitoring
- Cervical length assessment
- Anti d immune globulin Administration to RhD-negative mother at 28 weeks of gestation
3rd trimester
- Screen for intrauterine fetal growth
- Bloodpressure monitoring
- Assessment, counselling and preparation for labor and delivery
- Fetal Doppler assessment
- Regular fetal monitoring
- Antenatal fetal surveillance
Post-Partumcare (4th trimester)
- Rooming in
- Pain management
- Maternal monitoring
- Infant monitoring and vaccination.
- Perineal care
- Post delivery to 6 to 8 weeks of periods for transition to prepregnanacy state.
- Rh alloimmunization
- Prophylaxis against thromboembolism