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Prenatal care is a process not an event.
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Excellent prenatal care represents a partnership between the provider, the patient, and her family.
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Key domains of intake information in prenatal care include pregnancy dating, baseline maternal health status, family health history, medical conditions impacted by pregnancy, medical conditions impacting pregnancy, and infection.
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Key domains of information during follow-up visits include normal growth and development, medical and/or obstetrical complications of pregnancy, and onset of labor.
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Lyons, P. (2015). Prenatal Care. In: Obstetrics in Family Medicine. Current Clinical Practice. Humana Press, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20077-4_3
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