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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I believe most of us are extremely paranoid and anxious on our fist visit to the doctor. We wonder about all the possible good or bad news that may be awaiting us. My friend remembers having a fight with her husband on her way to see the gynaecologist. One always feels for the men in such cases. And a few moments after the fight, she was sitting with her gynaecologist who was looking at the couple that just walked in through her rectangular glasses. She was every bit the professor at a well-known medical college that she expected her to be – spectacles with a chain hanging by, a thin frame, and skepticism written all over her face. (more…)