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About 8
weeks:
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Physician examination and
Pap smear.
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Assign due date.
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Discuss prenatal
vitamins.
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Orientation to the
practice.
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About 12
weeks:
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Discuss prenatal
laboratory testing.
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Listen for fetal heart
tones.
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About 16
weeks:
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Listen for fetal heart
tones and check uterine size.
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Prenatal blood tests drawn
in the outpatient lab.
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(Amniocentesis may be done
for patients over the age of 34).
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About 20
weeks:
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An obstetric ultrasound
may be ordered about this time. The ultrasound will
usually be done at Northside Hospital. Please have
a very full bladder for the ultrasound.
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About 24
weeks:
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Listen for fetal heart
tones and check uterine size.
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Patients who are
interested in taking childbirth education classes
should register for these classes with Northside
Hospital.
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About 28
weeks:
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Listen for fetal heart
tones and check uterine size.
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One hour glucose test and
hematocrit is done. (You will drink a glucose
solution and blood will be drawn one hour after
drinking the glucose. Fasting is not
necessary.)
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A Rhogam shot is given to
patients who have Rh negative blood type.
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Receive information sheet
about warning signs of premature labor and fetal
movement counts.
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About 30
weeks:
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Listen for fetal heart
tones and check uterine size.
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Discuss glucose test
results.
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About 32
weeks:
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Listen for fetal heart
tones and check uterine size.
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Check for the baby's
position.
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Register at Northside
Hospital
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About 34
weeks:
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Listen for fetal heart
tones and check uterine size.
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Check for the baby's
position.
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About 36
weeks:
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Listen for fetal heart
tones and check uterine size.
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Group B strep culture of
the vagina and rectum is done.
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Check for the baby's
position.
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Discuss Labor and
Delivery.
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Receive information sheet
about when to call.
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37 - 39
weeks:
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Listen for fetal heart
tones and check uterine size.
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Check for the baby's
position.
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A cervical examination may
be done.
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40 weeks:
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Listen for fetal heart
tones and check uterine size.
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Check for the baby's
position.
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Cervical
examination.
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Discuss management plan
for delivery on an individual basis.
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