How many prenatal checkups should you do during pregnancy

The standard prenatal check-up after pregnancy should be as follows: A prenatal check-up guide should be established and the first prenatal check-up should be carried out before 12 to 6 weeks of pregnancy. The second pregnancy check-up was between 14 and 19 weeks. The third prenatal check-up is between the 20th and 24th weeks of pregnancy. This check-up is more important and requires a color Doppler ultrasound examination of the fetal system to determine whether the fetus has any deformities. The fourth pregnancy check-up, between 25 and 28 weeks of pregnancy, requires a grape glucose tolerance test. The 5th to 8th pregnancy tests were at 30 weeks, 32 weeks, 34 weeks, and 36 weeks respectively. After full term, between 37-40 weeks, a pregnancy test should be done once a week. Therefore, standard prenatal checkups should be done 11 times from pregnancy to delivery.

At least eight prenatal checkups should be done during pregnancy. The first checkup should be around 12 weeks. A perinatal health care book should be created to determine the number of weeks of pregnancy, calculate the expected date of delivery, assess high-risk factors during pregnancy, measure blood pressure and weight, and perform a gynecological examination; perform blood routine tests, urine tests, blood types, fasting blood sugar, kidney function, and infectious disease tests; and perform B-ultrasound examinations to determine the size of the gestational sac and the site of embryo implantation to determine the number of weeks of pregnancy.

Down syndrome screening should also be carried out at 14-19 weeks. During the second pregnancy checkup, between 14 and 19 months, if there are high-risk factors in the Down syndrome screening, a minimally invasive DNA test or amniocentesis should be performed as a basic test.

For the third pregnancy check-up, four-dimensional color ultrasound, routine blood tests and urine tests are basically carried out at 20-24 weeks; for the fourth pregnancy check-up, screening for gestational diabetes is carried out at 25-28 weeks, and routine blood tests and urine tests are conducted again. The fifth pregnancy check-up is usually between 29 and 32 weeks, and it is necessary to measure blood pressure, uterine height, and fetal abdominal circumference, conduct an obstetric B-ultrasound examination, understand the development of the fetus, and conduct routine blood and urine tests. The sixth pregnancy check-up, between 33 and 36 weeks, can include a urine test, a group B streptococcus test, and a leucorrhea test. The seventh pregnancy check-up, generally at 37-41 weeks of pregnancy, will again undergo obstetric B-ultrasound to understand the fetal development and detect the fetal heartbeat.