WHY IS PRENATAL CARE IMPORTANT?
Mom, by taking care of your health, you are taking care of mine as well. Thus, you will feel well, and I will be born very strong!
You are more enlightened because you carry a new life in your womb!
Prenatal care is a proper service for you, a pregnant woman. In it, you receive guidance and care to keep your health and the baby's.
Less than eight prenatal appointments are necessary for a non-risky pregnancy. A risk pregnancy is one in which some problem or disease can complicate the pregnancy.
Appointment dates will depend on the month of pregnancy when you start prenatal care.
In prenatal care appointments, you will:
- Get to know how your health is;
- Know how the baby is growing;
- know an estimate of when the baby will be born;
- Learn how to eat better and what care you need to take with yourself;
- Be examined and have bloodwork, a urine test, and others to check on your health and the baby’s;
- Receive guidance on taking an iron supplement to prevent anemia. In many countries, it is given for free at the health service;
- Receive guidance on breastfeeding;
- Be advised to take the necessary vaccines during pregnancy.
In many places, the pregnant woman receives a card or a notebook where everything that happens during her pregnancy will be recorded. If you receive it, take it with you whenever you go to the health service.
According to the World Health Organization, prenatal care appointments should be more frequent in the last months of pregnancy. Ask your leader how prenatal care works in the location where you live.
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