So, when to register with a women's consultation? You have a delay, and pregnancy tests show two strips. It is then that you must first come to the doctor, because the sooner you come to the hospital, the more accurately you will be told the date of conception of the baby. This indicator is very important for doctors, because on it they determine how quickly your baby develops. If you late consult a doctor, then there is a risk of missing the moment when the child began to lag behind in the prenatal development. Modern medicine can eliminate the problems of lagging fetal development, if the appropriate treatment is started on time. Therefore, you can, so to speak, cure the baby within yourself and deprive yourself of many difficulties, troubles and worries associated with the birth and nursing of a child born of a sick person through your fault. So, it is decided, you go to the women's consultation no later than 7-8 weeks of pregnancy.
When you come to the reception to the obstetrician-gynecologist, the doctor will direct you to take blood and urine tests. It is also important to establish a blood group, a Rh factor, to make a test for syphilis and to determine the presence of antibodies against HIV in the blood. The exact period of pregnancy, the size of the fetus, the location of the placenta in the uterus - all this you will learn after going through an ultrasound examination (ultrasound). Also the gynecologist will give you directions for examination of the following specialists: therapist, dentist, oculist, otolaryngologist. These surveys will analyze the state and health of a woman, identify existing diseases and possible complications during pregnancy and childbirth. If you have any illnesses, you register with the doctor who prescribes immediate treatment.
In the first 20 weeks, the pregnant woman should visit the women's consultation at least once a month, starting from the 20th week - once in 2 weeks, and from the 32nd week - once in 10 days. In the last 2 months of pregnancy, your doctor will often tell you to take blood and urine tests (after each appointment). These tests are necessary to monitor the condition of the pregnant woman and avoid possible complications, for example, iron deficiency anemia (revealed by blood analysis) or late gestosis (revealed by urine analysis). With every admission, the obstetrician-gynecologist will measure your blood pressure, measure weight, circumference of the abdomen, determine the position of the uterine fundus, the position of the fetus, and the frequency of his heartbeat.
Also obstetrician gynecologist in the women's consultation will determine which group of risk the pregnant woman belongs to. To determine the risk group, the following factors are taken into account: the age of potential parents, the state of health of potential parents, the physical indicators of potential parents (height, weight), the harmfulness of the parents' profession, emotional overload, the number of abortions of the mother, the serial number of births, the presence of premature births and stillbirths, the death of a child in the first days of life, the development of existing children, the state of health of the genital organs of the future childbirth. Risk groups have a 10-point scale, if your risk score is 9 or 10, then the question of whether to maintain a pregnancy will arise.
Also, when you first visit a women's consultation, the obstetrician-gynecologist will get you a personal card of the pregnant woman, where the plan for monitoring you will be described in detail, and the examinations and tests performed will be indicated. With this exchange card the woman goes to the hospital.