34 weeks doctor’s appointment: Your midwife or doctor should give you facts about preparing for labor and birth, including how to recognize active labor, ways of coping with pain in labor and your birth plan. Your midwife or doctor should:
• review, discuss and record the results of any screening tests from the last appointment
• use a tape to measure the size of your uterus
• measure your blood pressure and test your urine for protein
• offer your second anti-D treatment if you are rhesus negative.
36 weeks doctor appointment
Your midwife or doctor should inform you about:
• feeding your baby
• caring for your newborn baby
• Vitamin K and screening tests for your newborn baby
• Your own health after your baby is born
• The ‘baby blues’ and postnatal depression.
Your midwife or doctor should:
• use a tape to measure the size of your uterus
• check the position of your baby
• measure your blood pressure and test your urine for protein.
38 weeks doctor’s appointment
Your midwife or doctor will discuss the options and choices about what happens if your pregnancy lasts longer than 41 weeks. Your midwife or doctor should:
• use a tape to measure the size of your uterus
• measure your blood pressure and test your urine for protein.
40 weeks pregnant doctor appointment
Your midwife or doctor should give you more facts about what happens if your pregnancy lasts longer than 41 weeks. Your midwife or doctor should:
• use a tape to measure the size of your uterus
• measure your blood pressure and test your urine for protein.
41 weeks pregnant doctor appointment
Your midwife or doctor should:
• use a tape to measure the size of your uterus
• measure your blood pressure and test your urine for protein
• offer a membrane sweep
• discuss the options and choices for induction of labor.
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