What are the prenatal examination items?

What pregnant women care about most is whether the baby in their belly is healthy. Every family wants to give birth to a healthy baby, and now they all pay attention to eugenics and good parenting. Normally, the fetal position is settled after 3 months of pregnancy. At this time, you can basically see the baby's condition in the belly when you go to the hospital for a prenatal check-up. Today we will take a look at what the prenatal check-up items are!

The main items of the three-month prenatal check-up include:

1. Measure your weight and blood pressure.

2. Consultation: Doctors usually ask expectant mothers about their weight before pregnancy, which can be used as a reference for their future weight gain during pregnancy. The ideal weight gain during pregnancy is 10-125 kg. And understand the past medical history, whether there is any drug allergy, lifestyle, family medical history, maternal medical history, and discomfort symptoms of the current fetus.

3. Listen to the baby's heartbeat: The doctor uses a Doppler fetal heart monitor to listen to the baby's heartbeat.

4. Urine test: It mainly tests the glucose and proteinuria values ​​of the expectant mother to determine whether the expectant mother has diabetes or poor glucose tolerance, metabolic diseases that secrete insulin, whether the kidney function is sound (protein metabolism problems), preeclampsia, gestational diabetes and other diseases.

5. Examination of various parts of the body: The doctor will examine the expectant mother's thyroid, breasts, and pelvic cavity. Since the pelvic cavity is examined internally, in order to avoid over-stimulating the uterus, the doctor will let the expectant mother lie flat on the diagnosis table and feel the upper part of her abdomen with his hands to see if there is any lump. If you feel a lump, you should suspect whether it is an ovarian tumor or uterine fibroids, but most of them are benign tumors.

6. Blood test: The expectant mother will have her blood drawn for tests, mainly to test her blood type, ABO blood type, RH blood type, hemoglobin (to check the degree of anemia in the expectant mother), screen for thalassemia, liver function, kidney function, syphilis, hepatitis B, AIDS, viral infection, etc., so as to take precautions for the future.

7. Check the size of the uterus: The expectant mother's uterus begins to gradually grow larger from the 6th week of pregnancy; by the 12th week of pregnancy, the fundus of the uterus will be above the pubic symphysis; by the 20th week of pregnancy, it will cross the pelvic cavity to the navel. Therefore, from the 20th to the 35th week of pregnancy, the number of centimeters measured by the doctor from the pubic symphysis to the fundus of the uterus for the expectant mother can be roughly equal to the fetal week. This number of weeks can also be used as a basis for whether the fetus is developing normally. Usually, an inference is made based on ±3 cm. That is, less than 3 cm means the fetus is smaller; greater than 3 cm means the fetus is larger.

8. Screening of “nuchal translucency”: Expectant mothers can do this test at 11-14 weeks of pregnancy to find out early whether the fetus is at high risk of Down syndrome. Ultrasound is mainly used to observe the thickness of the fetal nuchal translucency. If the thickness is greater than 2.5 (or 3), the chance of the fetus suffering from Down syndrome will be higher. At this time, the doctor will recommend the expectant mother to do another amniocentesis to see if there is any chromosomal abnormality.

After completing all the above prenatal examinations, you will know whether the baby in your belly is healthy or not. If the results show that the baby is unhealthy, it is still time to have an abortion. Pregnant women must not be soft-hearted at this time. The birth of an unhealthy child will be a suffering for both the parents and the child themselves. We must pay attention to the quality of newborns now so that our nation can prosper in the future.