What are the check-up items for 12 weeks of pregnancy?

After becoming pregnant, women must pay attention to actively go for prenatal checkups. Generally, after 12 weeks of pregnancy, doctors will recommend pregnant women to go to the hospital to open a medical record, and then go to the hospital regularly for prenatal checkups according to the doctor's advice. However, many women do not understand what items will be included in the prenatal checkup after 12 weeks of pregnancy? So below I will give you a detailed introduction to what items are checked during prenatal examinations.

The first formal prenatal check-up? Receive the "Pregnant Women's Health Handbook"? Do various basic examinations. Every expectant mother will officially start her first prenatal check-up in the 12th week of pregnancy. Since the situation has entered a relatively stable stage at this time, most hospitals will issue a "Pregnant Women's Health Handbook" to mothers. In the future, when the doctor performs prenatal examinations for each expectant mother, he or she will also conduct and record the examination items recorded in the manual.

Inspection items mainly 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 to 12.5 kg.

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 (metabolism protein 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, hemoglobin (to check the degree of anemia), liver function, kidney function, and syphilis, hepatitis B, AIDS, etc., so as to take precautions for the future.

After the introduction and analysis above, everyone will pay more attention to these issues and various common sense, especially pregnant female friends. If you want to give birth to a healthy and smart baby, prenatal check-ups must not be ignored. As long as we actively do prenatal check-ups, we can discover some adverse problems in time and solve them quickly.