Pregnancy

Antenatal Care

Booking Your Visit

You will be invited to attend a booking clinic where you will see Jo your Specialist Midwife Sonographer. This is important, as it is necessary to obtain and record your personal and family history. Booking will include your first ultrasound scan. Please allow 30 minutes for this appointment.

Your Antenatal Records

Later on in your pregnancy you will be encouraged to carry your own current antenatal record. The advantage of carrying your own record is that, if required to attend your GP and when attending the women’s Health Group or the hospital, there is access to a fully updated record of your care.

Antenatal Care Calendar

Gestation (Weeks)		Carer	Information Requirements		Content of Care	Investigations
8-14		Specialist Midwife Sonographer	Booking including health promotion and education, domestic violence, post-natal depression and infant feeding Articulation of women’s requirements and wishes, including birth plan		Booking visit including medical, obstetric and gynaecological history. Blood pressure, physical examination	Calculate date of delivery, booking bloods, full blood count and group, Rubella, Varicella, VDRL, Hepatitis B. HIV, urinalysis, dating ultrasound. Patient baseline weight and height
15 - 17		Consultant Obstetrician	First introduction and discussion regarding booking bloods		Discuss any risk factors.	Blood pressure, urinalysis, fundal height FH auscultation or scan carried out
18 - 20		Specialist Midwife/ Sonographer	Hand-held maternity record given to women, information and discussion		Discuss outcome of scan	Detailed fetal anomaly ultrasound scan
22		Consultant Obstetrician	Information and discussion		Assessment of well-being	Blood pressure, urinalysis, fundal height FH or Scan
28 - 30		Consultant Obstetrician	Rhesus disease, information and discussion		General	Rhesus antibody check, full blood count, blood pressure, urinalysis, fundal height FH or scan fetal growth assessment
32		Consultant Obstetrician	Information and discussion		General	Blood pressure, urinalysis, fundal height, FH or Scan Fetal growth assessment
34		Practice Midwife	Information and discussion		Review of pregnancy, physical examination and Labour discussion	Rhesus antibody check, blood pressure, urinalysis, fundal height, clinical size and lie, presentation, FH or scan fetal growth assessment
36	Consultant Obstetrician			Information and discussion			Blood pressure, urinalysis, fundal height and presentation FH or scan for fetal growth assessment