Pregnancy planning
Pregnancy planning addresses issues like nutrition, vitamins, body weight, exercise, potentially harmful medications and illnesses, immunizations, and genetic counseling that may impact a woman’s ability to carry a child to term. A woman who plans to become pregnant should make lifestyle choices for optimal health in advance of the planned conception. See also birth control, family planning.
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Prenatal radiation exposure.
- Pregnancy symptoms
A symptom or sign of pregnancy. These symptoms and signs depend upon the time in pregnancy. In the first trimester of pregnancy, the first sign of pregnancy is most often a missed menstrual period. If a sexually active woman’s periods are generally regular, missing a period for a week or more is presumptive evidence of […]
- Pregnancy ultrasound
252-260, 1999.) Thus, there is no convincing evidence for any danger from diagnostic ultrasound during pregnancy. Pregnancy ultrasound is also referred to as prenatal ultrasound.
- Pregnancy, acute fatty liver
Liver failure in late pregnancy, usually from unknown cause. Acute fatty liver of pregnancy (AFLP) typically occurs in first-time pregnancies in the last trimester. AFLP causes nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain especially in the upper abdomen (epigastrium), jaundice (yellowing), frequent thirst (polydipsia) and increased urination (polyuria), fatigue, headache, and altered mental state. Laboratory features of […]
- Pregnancy, alcohol in
The consumption of alcohol during pregnancy carries the danger of damaging the fetus and causing fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) or fetal alcohol effects.