What department is the prenatal care clinic?

Prenatal care clinic is a specialized nursing clinic under the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (or Maternal and Child Health Department). Its core is to provide non-diagnosis and treatment maternity care guidance for pregnant people and is not a regular clinical diagnosis and treatment department.

Many mothers who are pregnant for the first time can't tell the difference between it and ordinary obstetrics. I met a little girl who was 14 weeks pregnant at the hospital's guidance desk last week. She waited in line for the obstetrics all morning. When I entered, I said that I wanted to ask whether I could skip low-intensity exercises during pregnancy and whether there was a gentle solution to constipation. , the doctor recommended that she be transferred to the prenatal care clinic. The number there was very empty, and someone would greet her as soon as she walked in. The nurse who contacted her talked to her for more than 20 minutes, and also made a tailor-made diet and exercise list, which was much more service time than a busy obstetrician could spare.

Different hospitals actually classify it differently. Most tertiary general hospitals classify it in the subcategory of obstetrics, which is on the same level as the delivery room and obstetric clinical clinic. The nurses who attend the clinic are all nurses with more than 5 years of obstetric nursing experience and special qualifications in maternity care. Many of them are senior midwives who have been working for more than ten years.； Many grassroots maternal and child health care hospitals will package it with schools for pregnant women and postpartum rehabilitation clinics under the maternal and child health department. The service content will be more basic public health services such as pregnancy science popularization and prenatal check-up reminders.

There are also many people who are worried about whether it will be unprofessional if it is not a doctor. After all, everyone is extremely cautious when it comes to pregnancy. But in fact, the positioning of prenatal care clinics is not to deal with diagnosis and treatment issues - if you have abnormalities such as bleeding, abdominal pain, and high risk of Tang Si In this situation, you must see an obstetrician as soon as possible, but if you are just unsure about how to choose skin care products during pregnancy, counting the number of fetal movements incorrectly, or want to learn the skills of opening and latching breasts in advance, it is more suitable to go to them. They are exposed to this kind of detailed problems every day, and they can explain it in much more detail than an obstetrician who doesn't even have time to drink water.

Not long ago, I met a mother who was 32 weeks pregnant. She always felt that something was wrong with the fetal movement but there was no other abnormality. She went to the prenatal care clinic first. The nurse accompanied her to measure the fetal movement for 20 minutes. In the end, she found that her counting method was wrong. She also taught her a few tips for home monitoring. If she went to the popular obstetrics department, she might have to wait for a long time, which would make her more and more anxious.