Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Need To Know...... Your Prenatal Records


If you are curious about all those medical abbreviations, here is what some of them mean:

BP Blood Pressure

BPD Biparietal Diameter ( the size of your baby's head estimated by USS)

EDD Estimated Date of Delivery

FBC Full Blood Count

FHH Fetal Heart Heard (with either a doppler machine or a fetal stethoscope)

FMF Fetal Movements Felt

GTT Glucose Tolerance Test ( a series of blood tests for diabetes)

MSU Mid Stream Urine (sample)

NAD No Abnormality Detected

NE Not Enagaged (meaning that the widest part of the your baby's head is still above the brim of your pelvis)

USS Ultrasound Scan



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