Antenatal Care
3 aims of antenatal care
What are Monitor the pregnancy, develop a relationship between HCP and families, deliver information that promotes choice, recognise deviations from the norm, raises awareness of public health issues, prepare parents for birth and beyond?
These are the social risk factors to pregnancy
What are BMI, Smoking, safeguarding, age, and drinking examples of?
Poor birth outcomes from smoking
Low birth weight and preterm birth, increased risk of still birth, increased risk of miscarriage,
Supplement needed to close the anterior and posterior neuropore
Folate?
The first antenatal appointment done at 10 weeks
What is the booking appointment?
The risk factors found from antenatal care observations
What are BP, proteinuria,and SFH?
Can ask for help and advice to stop smoking and drinking
Midwife, obstetrician, GP, counselling services
The week in which the neural tube closes
Week 4?
The weeks in which the extra antenatal appointments happen if this is the patient's first child
What happens at week 25 and 31?
Apart form social risk factors and antennal care findings, these are the other risks factors to pregnancy
What are acute and chronic diseases, bleeding and infections?
A serious condition developed by babies as a result of drinking. This causes problems with learning and behaviour, hyperactivity and impulse control, speech and communication, joints and bones
Foetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD)?
The layer of the blastocyst that is involved in implantation.
Trophoblast, syncytiotrophoblast and cytotrophoblast
When screening for thalassaemia and and sickle cell disease is offered
What happens before Week 10?
Adolescents are more at risk for having these 3 complications during pregnancy
Preeclampsia, preterm labour and Anaemia?
Babies whose mothers smoke are about three times more likely to die from this
SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome)
The immunoglobulin that is transferred from the maternal placental to the foetus
IgG?
The first ultrasound offered to estimate when the baby is due and the second ultrasound offered to check for physical development and 11 rare conditions
What happens at 8-14 weeks and at 18-20 weeks?
Preexisting insulin-dependent diabetes causes an increase risks for these complications
Pyelonephritis, ketoacidosis, preeclampsia, foetal macrosomia?
A birth defect resulting from smoking. Can result in having trouble eating and may need surgery to rectify
Cleft lip/cleft palate?
Defect in one of these: the pleuroperitoneal membranes, the mesentery of the developing esophagus, muscular ingrowth from the lateral body wall, and the septum transversum will result in this condition
Congenital diaphragmatic hernia?