Your Pregnancy Timeline:
4 weeks: First missed menstrual period (around 2 weeks from actual conception)
8 weeks: Dating ultrasound in my rooms – you will need a “comfortably full” bladder
Referral for antenatal booking blood tests if not already done by your family doctor
Antenatal visits now every 4 weeks (1st baby) or 5-6 weeks (2nd + baby)
10 1/2 weeks: Earliest time for Non-Invasive Prenatal Test (eg Percept: vcgs.org.au/perceptNIPT)
10-11 weeks: Blood tests for the Nuchal Translucency Scan (if you are having one)
10-14 weeks: Recommended visit with a pregnancy dietitian to discuss healthy eating and weight gain in pregnancy
12-13 weeks: Nuchal Translucency Scan or Early Structural Scan (if you are having one)
Book in for antenatal classes (and maybe Calmbirth,) if booked at RHW
14 weeks: Submit Hospital booking form – paper form for RHW, online booking for POWPH
17-24 weeks: Appointment to see midwife Michele (or Chantelle) for long (1 hour) consultation
18 weeks: Book in for antenatal classes, if booked at POWPH (first baby)
19 weeks: Detailed morphology ultrasound scan (can check baby’s sex if you wish)
20 weeks: Start feeling baby’s movements (sometimes later if the placenta is at the front)
26-28 weeks: Gestational diabetes screen (Must be booked. Needs 12 hour fast. Allow 3 hours)
28-30 weeks: Anti D injection, if your blood group is Rhesus negative
Antenatal visits now every 2 weeks (1st baby) or every 3 weeks (2nd + baby)
30-33 weeks: 3D Ultrasound in Edgecliff rooms – please don’t be late, as your time slot is short
34-36 weeks: Second Anti D injection, if required
36 weeks: Growth and wellbeing ultrasound
Vaginal-perianal swab for Group B Streptococcus (GBS)
Antenatal visits now weekly (all pregnancies)
36-37 weeks: Second, shorter (30 minute) consultation with Michele (or Chantelle), if required
37 weeks: Longer consultation with me to discuss birth plan
39-40 weeks: Usual timing of elective caesarean section if you need one
40 weeks: Full term