Premature Delivery

Premature Delivery

1. Antenatal care

   • Visits
     • From booking visit -28th week visits will be every 4 weeks.
     • From 28th week-36th week, every 2 weeks.
     • From 36th week- delivery, every week.
   • Routine tests
   • Examination of the Pregnant Woman

2. preterm baby

   • babies born alive before 37 weeks of pregnancy are completed

3. Calculation of EDD

   • Naegele’s rule
     • +1year -3months +7days
     • +9months +7days

4. Risk factors Of Premature Delivery

   • Non Modifiable
   • Modifiable

5. Management of preterm labor

   • Corticosteroid therapy
     • Decrease risk of respiratory distress syndrome, intraventricular hemorrhage, and necrotizing enterocolitis
   • Magnesium sulfate
     • decrease in occurrence and severity of cerebral palsy in infant
   • Tocolysis
     • to prolong the time to delivery for more intervention
   • Antibiotics
     • In case of Intrauterine bacterial infections

6. Complications of prematurity

7. Stages of labor

   • STAGE 1
     • Dilation of cervix
   • STAGE 2
     • Delivery of baby
   • STAGE 3
     • Delivery of placenta

8. APGAR score

9. Postnatal follow up

10. Lactation

11. Pap smear

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