the9months

Visiting your medical caregiver

You may have already had your first obstetric appointment to confirm your pregnancy. If you arrived full of questions about your pregnancy and then thought of more on your way home, don’t worry. Your caregiver will be seeing you again soon enough. You’ll need to be seen:
•    about once a month now through the fifth month of pregnancy
•    every three weeks in the sixth and seventh months
•    every two weeks in the eighth month
•    weekly in the ninth month until your baby is born
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• Research shows that 1 out of every 5 pregnancies (i.e. 20% of all pregnancies) ends in a miscarriage during the first 12 weeks. That is why it is wise to not to raise your expectations during the initial few weeks.
• Do not tell your family. In case something goes wrong with the pregnancy, you would have to hear a lot of unwanted things from your family along with coping the loss yourself. Miscarriages can happen even if you took and followed all the advice that your mother and aunts can give. (more…)