Pregnancy & Antenatal care

Having a baby is both exciting and demanding, rewarding and frustrating, worrying and yet emotionally satisfying and fulfilling. Family, relatives and friends play an important role in developing the psyche of new mother but an expert opinion help in developing right thinking and dismissing myths related to pregnancy and childbirth. Antenatal appointments makes u aware of likely forthcoming changes, and also gives an opportunity to discuss the modifications required in routine diet, sleep, work which helps to cope up better Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before!

ARTISANAL NARWAHLS

• Identification of pregnancy as high or low risk
• Counselling about diet & exercise
• Necessary Investigation: Blood group, Complete blood count, TSH, HIV, Hep B antigen, Anti HCV, VDRL, Glucose challenge test, Nestroft/ electrophoresis, urine routine, microscopy, urine culture
• First trimester (PAPP-A, ßhCG, Noninvasive prenatal test) and second trimester ( triple & quadruple test) biochemical screening
• Ultrasound
• - Early pregnancy
• - First trimester screening (Nuchal translucency, Nasal bone, Fronto maxillary angle, tricuspid flow)
• - Level II USG to rule out gross congenital anomaly in baby
• - Serial growth scan and color doppler flow study if required
• - Opportunity to discuss day today pregnancy related problems
• - Nonstress testing (NST) facility for high risk cases
• - Stem cell counseling
• - Psychological training relaxation exercise to prepare for labor