After the woman has realized that she is pregnant, she usually goes to the antenatal clinic with the goal of registering and finding out what tests the pregnant women are doing. And at the same time, she receives a direction in which she must go through a huge number of different examinations. Moreover, some of them during the entire period of gestation will need to be repeated several times. Involuntarily, a woman thinks about whether all these studies are really necessary.
Remember, all existing tests were invented by modern doctors not in vain, because with the course of pregnancy , a woman’s body may experience symptoms of certain diseases of both herself and the fetus, which do not immediately appear. Therefore, all ongoing laboratory tests are the very method by which you can identify all emerging problems and take timely measures to eliminate them. In any medical institution, a woman must explain what tests are done during pregnancy and why they are needed.
The most significant of all studies are blood tests, since it is they that make it possible to determine the state of health of the unborn child and learn all about the work of his small body.
There is a single standardized list, which indicates what tests are given by pregnant women at different periods of gestation. When registering, you must do:
1. blood biochemistry analysis
2. coagulogram
3. determine the blood group and confirm the Rh factor
4. blood for general analysis
5. blood for syphilis
6. blood for AIDS
7. blood for hepatitis B, C
At a gestational age of 11 to 14 weeks, a woman must donate blood for the so-called double test, that is, for prenatal biochemical screening .
At the gestational age of 16 to 20 weeks are carried out:
• "triple test", that is, prenatal biochemical screening
• coagulogram
• blood tests for hepatitis B and C
• general blood analysis
• blood for the AIDS virus and syphilis
• blood for biochemistry
At the age of 30 weeks of pregnancy, a woman donates blood to:
• general analysis
• coagulogram
• biochemistry
• syphilis
• AIDS
• hepatitis B and hepatitis C
All of the above mandatory tests during pregnancy help the doctor understand what the health status of the future mother and fetus is, and therefore you should not neglect the general recommendations and ignore medical research if you want to give birth to a healthy baby.
In addition to the list of mandatory tests, there are a number of additional studies that a woman has the right to carry out at her own request or at the recommendation of her gynecologist, if he suggests possible violations of the correct course of pregnancy. As a rule, such studies are paid and expensive.
What tests do pregnant women give in addition:
• APTT - detection of blood coagulation time
• blood for TORCH infections
• diagnosis of pathologies and genetic diseases of the fetus
• glycemic profile
• blood test for the amount of hormones
• urinalysis according to Zimnitsky or according to Nechiporenko
• blood test for group and anti-Rhesus antibodies
• blood test for infection
• smear analysis for infection
• chorionic biopsy
• cordocentesis
• placentcentesis
• amniocentesis
Each woman in an interesting position should be aware of what tests are being given by pregnant women, and must clearly follow the recommendations of her gynecologist. You should not follow the advice of your grandmothers and aunts, who say that at one time they gave birth to healthy children without any analysis and research, and everything was fine. In the modern world, a completely different ecological and socio-epidemic situation, therefore, all those tests that are recommended and shown to pregnant women, give confidence not only to the doctor, but also to you first of all that the baby will be born strong and healthy.