Antenatal care means how your health, and the health of your baby is monitored before your baby’s delivery. For most women, early and regular prenatal care promotes a healthy pregnancy and delivery without complications. But some women are at an increased risk for complications even before they get pregnant for a variety of reasons.
Complete care of your pregnancy starting with pre-pregnancy consultation and guidance, total ante-natal (during pregnancy) care and finally delivery both Vaginal and Caesarean. And finally post pregnancy guidance and contraceptive advice including intra-uterine device insertion and tubal sterilization both Laparoscopic and mini-lap.
Existing health conditions, such as high blood pressure, diabetes
Obesity increases the risk for high blood pressure, preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, stillbirth, neural tube defects, and cesarean delivery. Researchers have found that obesity can raise infants’ risk of heart problems at birth by 15%.
The risk of complications is higher in women carrying more than one fetus (twins and higher-order multiples). Common complications include preeclampsia, premature labor, and preterm birth. More than half of all twins and as many as 93% of triplets are born at less than 37 weeks gestation.
Pregnancy in teens and women aged 35 or over increases the risk for Precambrian and gestational high blood pressure.
The first of the pregnancy stages, or the first trimester is very important to both you and the baby which is growing and developing inside you and will require many adjustments to your life style. Lots of hormonal changes are taking place inside you. You may feel extremely tired the first 2 months of pregnancy.
This is the best stage at which you feel overall healthier and look good with definite change in body shape. The major milestones in your baby’s development will be development of downy hair, called lanugo, during 14-15 to protect the skin, but will disappear few weeks before birth. From 16-18 weeks you will the feel first fluttery movements of your baby.
During this time you will continue to put on weight and will continue to do so until about your 36th or 37th week. The reason is that baby will also put on three quarters of its weight during this period. Your belly may affect your balance, and lead you to have back aches. During 37-39 weeks, your baby’s nervous system is maturing, ready for birth.