Prenatal Care
Summary :
Table of Contents
- The purpose of prenatal care is to ensure, as much as possible, an uncomplicated pregnancy and the delivery of a live healthy infant
- This is the ideal time to stress the dangers of cigarette smoking, alcohol and drug use, and exposure to teratogens.
- Initial office visit
- Present pregnancy
- Previous pregnancy
- Medical history
- Surgical history
- Family history
- General examination
- Pelvic examination
- Blood screening
- Genetics testing
- Urine testing
- Papanicolaou smear
- Final Discussion
Abstract
prenatal care as we know it today is a relatively new development in medicine. It originated in Boston in the first decade of this century. Before that time, the patient who thought she was pregnant may have visited a physician for confirmation but did not visit again until delivery was imminent.
The nurses of the Instructive Nursing Association in Boston, thinking they might contribute to the health of pregnant mothers, began making house calls on all mothers registered for delivery at the Boston Lying-In Hospital.
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