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The Windows, the Tape Measure and the Tracing

Prenatal care turns adaptation into surveillance, and almost every screen has a window — miss it and the test either cannot be done or no longer means what it should. Slide a pregnancy week by week and watch the windows open and close, measure a fundal height against dates, then decide whether a non-stress test is reactive and what a biophysical profile score obliges you to do.

Run the pregnancy

24 weeks
Taken at essentially every return visit
•Blood pressure
•Weight
•Urine dipstick for protein and glucose
•Fetal heart rate — count the maternal pulse at the same time
The prenatal calendarSlide the weeks and watch the windows
Waiting
Choose a mode on the left.