Obstetric Calendar
This calendar lists what to expect at each visit during the course of your pregnancy.
First visit:- Orientation to the practice
- Obtain history
- Assign due date
- Discuss prenatal vitamins
- Order prenatal laboratory testing
- Discuss prenatal lab results
- Check weight, blood pressure, and urine
- Listen for fetal heart tones
- Perform pelvic exam (if not already done)
- Listen for fetal heart tones and check uterine size
- Check weight, blood pressure, and urine
- Sign up for prenatal education classes
- Order 18-20 week ultrasound
- Listen for fetal heart tones and check uterine size
- Check weight, blood pressure, and urine
- Review ultrasound results
- Listen for fetal heart tones and check uterine size
- Check weight, blood pressure, and urine
- Order one-hour glucose test to be completed before next appointment
- Listen for fetal heart tones and check uterine size
- Check weight, blood pressure, and urine
- Discuss glucose test results
- Verify that patients with Rh-negative blood types have received
- RhoGAM® by 28 weeks
- Listen for fetal heart tones and check uterine size
- Check weight, blood pressure, and urine
- Listen for fetal heart tones and check uterine size
- Check weight, blood pressure, and urine
- Evaluate the baby’s position
- Schedule anesthesia class at Heritage Valley Sewickley
- Listen for fetal heart tones and check uterine size
- Check weight, blood pressure, and urine
- Perform group B strep culture of the vagina
- Discuss labor and delivery
- Patients should attend anesthesia class at Heritage Valley Sewickley
- Listen for fetal heart tones and check uterine size
- Check weight, blood pressure, and urine
- A cervical examination may be performed
- Listen for fetal heart tones and check uterine size
- Check weight, blood pressure, and urine
- Perform cervical examination
