Introduction

Antenatal care is the care given through out pregnancy (and even while planning a pregnancy), both to mother and foetus. Antenatal care ideally consists of:

  • Pre-conception counselling
  • Assessing maternal risk factors
  • Regular assessment of fetal well-being
  • Screening and ongoing monitoring of complications
  • Education of the would be mother with regards to
    • Normal, expected discomforts of pregnancy
    • Expected physiological changes
    • Expected emotional changes (including post-natal depression)
    • Antenatal exercises
    • Ideal diet
  • Available options for delivery

A general practitioner/ family physician is the right person for dispensing antenatal care for the following reasons:

 

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