Title: IDHS: Inter-conceptional Care -Prenatal care
Headings: Inter-conceptional Care -Prenatal care
Inter-conceptional Care -Prenatal care
Inter-conceptional Care -Prenatal care
Definition of Prenatal Care
Rationale for Prenatal Care:
Goals of Prenatal Care:
Objectives of Prenatal Care
Major Recommendations for quality Prenatal Care- All pregnant women:
Components of Prenatal Care.
Early and Continuing Risk Assessment

Content: IDHS: Inter-conceptional Care -Prenatal care
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Inter-conceptional Care -Prenatal care
Definition of Prenatal Care
Regularly scheduled obstetric care beginning in early pregnancy and continuing through post-partum. Prenatal care involves the management of medical, nutritional. Psycho-social, and educational needs of the patient and her family. This is reevaluated at regular intervals, and revised in accordance with the progress of the pregnancy. Rationale for Prenatal Care: Access to prenatal care has long been associated with reduction in infant and maternal mortality and morbidity. Encounters between pregnant women and health care providers, afford opportunities for teaching when a foundation can be laid for learning good health habits which will benefit both mother and infant Women who receive prenatal care during the first trimester have better pregnancy outcomes than women who have little or no prenatal care. Goals of Prenatal Care: To maintain and improve maternal/ infant health and well-being through education including nutrition, Periodic surveillance, laboratory testing, and risk assessment including risks of genetic disease and birth defects.