In this respect, the entire prenatal course is punctuated by a doctor's care plan that he or she has developed over the years and then which is fine-tuned to your own unique presentation of your pregnancy. The perfect pregnancy won't exist until cloning and mail-order take over the act. But there are the normal and the high-risk. These two groups are the most generalized divisions of surveillance for an obstetrician watching a pregnancy, and ironically, these two groups tend to fall into the humorous designations above in that if there's any problem at all, a doctor will consider the patient and pregnancy high-risk. Perhaps, but there's just too much at stake otherwise.
Every pregnancy is of ultimate importance.
What to Expect in the First Trimester in Normal Pregnancy Until the completion of the first twelve weeks of pregnancy, known as the first trimester , there are the general medical considerations. On your initial visit, you can expect that a careful history will be obtained or updated, depending on whether you are a new patient or not. The initial physical exam will be used to assess your general maternal health, and you should expect routine blood work, vaginal cultures, and a check of the size of your uterus . If it's too early to hear your baby's heartbeat, then you should also expect the exam to give some indication as to whether there is someone growing inside your uterus making it the size expected for the gestational age. Routine cultures will be for chlamydia , gonorrhea , and perhaps group B strep , although the strep culture is usually done later around 28 weeks.