Find out why it is so important to attend your prenatal care without fail.

The prenatal control is the set of actions and activities that are performed in pregnant women with the goal of achieving good health, normal development of the fetus and a newborn in optimal physical, mental and emotional conditions.

The prenatal control should be:

• Precocious: hopefully with preconception care or from the first trimester.
• Periodic: according to risk factors, available resources and established standards.
• Good quality: aiming at the proper determination of risk factors.
• Universal: for all women in pregnancy.
• Of free choice: guaranteeing the accessibility of the user to the nearest institution.

The prenatal control intends:

• Detect subclinical maternal diseases.
• Prevent, diagnose early and treat complications of pregnancy.
• Perform a complete physical examination and laboratory tests required.
• Reduce discomfort and minor symptoms associated with pregnancy.
• Psychophysically prepare the mother for childbirth.
• Educate in dentistry, nutrition, immunizations and mental health.
• Monitor the normal growth and development of the fetus.
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Prenatal monitoring should be performed by a physician, ideally gynecologist obstetrician. Each prenatal check is subject to decisions of this professional or their findings. It is the follow-up of a natural biological process that is almost always physiological, but not without risks, and requires a real programming of the consultations. In general, they are performed every 4 weeks until the 28th week, then every 2 weeks and the last month, every week.

A low-risk pregnancy is the usual, which tends to be normal, in a woman who has no risk factors that endanger her health, or that of her baby.

A high-risk pregnancy is one in which the risk of illness or death, before or after delivery, is greater than usual for both the mother and the child.