Prenatal Care: Objective

The objective of prenatal care is to monitor the health of the pregnant mother and fetus.

It is important to visit the doctor as soon as you suspect you are pregnant. At each visit the doctor will examine you. This examination includes: monitoring weight gain or loss, blood pressure, circumference of the abdomen, position of the fetus and fetal heartbeat. Such variables are going to be closely followed during the course of your pregnancy.

Other tests your doctor may recommend are: Ultrasound and Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring.

Your doctor may schedule your visits monthly during the first two trimesters (from week one to week 28 of pregnancy), every two weeks from 28 to 36 week of pregnancy and weekly after week 36 (until the day of delivery that could be between week 38 and 40 weeks).