Important periodical antenatal check-ups

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Video content is professionally consulted by BSCK I. Tran Thi Thu Ha, Women's Health Center, Vinmec Times City International General Hospital

Each different stage of pregnancy is marked by changes, both psychological, endocrine and physical for the mother as well as the fetus. Periodic prenatal check-ups according to each milestone, ultrasound at the right stage will help doctors assess the mother's health and promptly detect abnormal factors of the baby.
Periodic antenatal check-ups will help pregnant women monitor the health of mother and baby, and promptly handle abnormalities that occur. In addition, pregnant women also have the opportunity to receive proper health care advice for the most comprehensive development of the baby in the womb.
The reason mothers need to follow the schedule of regular antenatal checkups during pregnancy is because:
Can understand the fetal development situation through periodic antenatal checkups. Through regular prenatal visits, the doctor will advise on nutrition or what to avoid during pregnancy to have a healthy pregnancy. Because the accuracy of the test results is only for a certain period of time, please remember the regular prenatal check-ups. Mothers who adhered to the routine antenatal care schedule had a 5-fold lower fetal mortality rate, and a higher standard birth weight of the baby. The important antenatal check-up milestones that pregnant women need to remember are:
The first time: At the time after knowing that you are pregnant. 2nd time: By the 12th week, an important antenatal check-up is for the doctor to measure the thickness of the nape of the neck and identify some early birth defects (umbilical hernia, cleft palate, anencephaly). 3rd time: In the 16th week of pregnancy, this antenatal check-up can check the baby's development comprehensively. Doctors were able to determine the sex of the fetus at this point. The parameters on the ultrasound also help to evaluate the prenatal screening test and can detect additional fetal anomalies that have not appeared in the previous weeks. 4th time: Routine antenatal checkup at 22 weeks is the most important morphological examination, which helps to detect most abnormalities of fetal morphology and urine test. The 5th time: At 26 weeks, with this antenatal check-up, fetal ultrasound helps to detect abnormalities of both mother and child and this is also the time to have tetanus vaccination. The 6th time: At 32 weeks, pregnant women need periodic antenatal check-ups, monitoring, ultrasound to assess fetal weight, urine and blood tests to rule out gestational diabetes, and nasal tetanus vaccination. 7: At 36 weeks, this periodical antenatal check-up will carefully check the fetal status, test the vaginal fluid, predict the weight of the fetus and plan on the method of delivery, the position of the fetus, status of the placenta.... The parameters of this visit are used when the mother is hospitalized, about to give birth. To ensure the comprehensive development of the fetus, please keep these important prenatal check-ups in mind and follow them.

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