Definitions for prenatal care
pre·na·tal care

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1. Prenatal care

   Prenatal care, also known as antenatal care, is a type of preventive healthcare. It is provided in the form of medical checkups, consisting of recommendations on managing a healthy lifestyle and the provision of medical information such as maternal physiological changes in pregnancy, biological changes, and prenatal nutrition including prenatal vitamins, which prevents potential health problems throughout the course of the pregnancy and promotes the mother and child's health alike.The availability of routine prenatal care, including prenatal screening and diagnosis, has played a part in reducing the frequency of maternal death, miscarriages, birth defects, low birth weight, neonatal infections and other preventable health problems.

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1. Prenatal care

   Prenatal care refers to the regular medical and nursing care recommended for women during pregnancy. Prenatal care is a type of preventative care with the goal of providing regular check-ups that allow doctors or midwives to treat and prevent potential health problems throughout the course of the pregnancy while promoting healthy lifestyles that benefit both mother and child. During check-ups, women will receive medical information over maternal physiological changes in pregnancy, biological changes, and prenatal nutrition including prenatal vitamins. Recommendations on management and healthy lifestyle changes are also made during regular check-ups. The availability of routine prenatal care has played a part in reducing maternal death rates and miscarriages as well as birth defects, low birth weight, and other preventable health problems. Prenatal care generally consists of: ⁕monthly visits to the doctors during the first twotrimesters ⁕fortnightly visits to doctor from 28th week to 36th week of pregnancy ⁕weekly visits to doctor after 36th week till delivery ⁕Assessment of parental needs and family dynamic

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1. Prenatal Care

   Care provided the pregnant woman in order to prevent complications, and decrease the incidence of maternal and prenatal mortality.

How to pronounce prenatal care?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of prenatal care in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of prenatal care in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of prenatal care in a Sentence

1. Tate Reeves:

   I perfectly acknowledge that many of those statistics in terms of health outcomes in our state, we are underperforming relative to other states across the nation, and it's incumbent upon all of us to work to pass policies to change that, when you look at health outcomes in terms of prenatal care or other areas, we have a ways to go, and that hasn't become effective in the last year and a half but it has happened over 200 years of our state's existence, and we are going to do everything we can to improve upon that.

2. Georges Benjamin:

   That was good, to see that percentage of women getting first trimester prenatal care is up, we look at the whole range of maternal-child health care as a great barometer of access to care, because there has been an emphasis over many years of making sure that women and children -- even low-income women and children -- get access to health care.

3. Peter Fried:

   If you look at poor nutrition, very young, no prenatal care, very stressed single moms, those things are going to add together to the potential impact of marijuana during pregnancy.

4. Sheryl Ross:

   In a community where you’re getting good prenatal care and you have healthy moms, these term babies probably aren’t missing out.

5. Betul Hatipoglu:

   If the test in this study proves effective with more research, it is going to help get many individuals, especially young adults, who are not going to see a primary care provider unless they are sick, i can also see this helping men in their 30s who don't see anybody except to get their teeth cleaned, or women who only go to the OB-gyn to get an annual checkup or prenatal care and don't think about anything else.

References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prenatal_Care
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=prenatal care