Routine pregnancy care
Antenatal visits, nutrition, activity and routine screening in a healthy pregnancy.
Care topics 1
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Antenatal care, also called prenatal care, is the care a pregnant person gets from a health care provider during pregnancy. At regular visits the provider checks the person’s health, follows how the...
Fronts 3
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Pages about how care is organised: visit schedules, guidelines, campaigns, networks and the checks after leaving hospital.
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Pages about steps taken before or during pregnancy to lower the chance of a problem: supplements, food, activity and stopping smoking.
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Pages about the blood, urine, questionnaire and newborn tests that look for a problem before or soon after it shows. Each page says who is tested and what the test looks for.
Interventions 4
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Pregnant people can be asked about tobacco, advised to stop and offered counseling and other behavioral support to quit. US guidance (USPSTF, 2021) recommends this for pregnant people who use tobacco...
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Iron deficiency is the leading cause of anemia during pregnancy. The US Preventive Services Task Force asked two questions about healthy pregnant people: should they be screened for iron deficiency...
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Staying active during pregnancy can help a person stay strong, feel and sleep better, and prepare the body for birth, according to MedlinePlus, which also says to check with a provider about which...
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Early in pregnancy, blood and urine tests look for infections that can harm a mother or her baby. US guidance (USPSTF) advises screening all pregnant women for syphilis early in pregnancy, screening...
Risk factors 2
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Alcohol can harm a baby at any stage of pregnancy, including the earliest weeks before a woman knows she is pregnant. Drinking in pregnancy can cause a group of conditions called fetal alcohol...
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Pregnant people are given a range for healthy weight gain that depends on their weight before pregnancy. A large review of studies found that gaining less than the range went with more preterm births...
Guidelines 4
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A 2021 statement from the US Preventive Services Task Force advising clinicians to offer pregnant people effective counseling that helps them gain weight in a healthy way and avoid excess weight gain.
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A 2021 statement from the US Preventive Services Task Force on helping adults, including pregnant people, to stop using tobacco. It updates the task force’s 2015 recommendation.
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A 2024 statement from the US Preventive Services Task Force on iron in healthy pregnancy. It says the evidence is not enough to judge the benefits and harms of screening for iron deficiency, or of...
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The World Health Organization’s 2016 global guideline on routine antenatal care. It covers nutrition, checks on the mother and the baby, preventive measures, common symptoms of pregnancy, and how...
Organizations 1
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The United Nations agency for international public health.