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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