Antenatal Care and Foetal Medicine

At the end of this course, students should be able to: 1. define antenatal care and its concept, list the components of antenatal care and describe various forms of ANC; 2. discuss why various investigations are carried out on pregnant women during antenatal care; 3. explain how quality antenatal care leads to good pregnancy outcomes; and 4. demonstrate how to conduct proper antenatal care.

Protocol for antenatal care, nutrition in pregnancy, lie, presentation, position, attitude, engagement of the foetal presentations, the maternal pelvis, imaging in obstetrics, screening for congenital anomalies, prenatal diagnosis, drug use in pregnancy. Foetal growth and development. Antenatal assessment of the foetus. Intrapartum foetal assessment. Intrauterine foetal death (IUFD). Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR). Foetal macrosomia. Pregnancy and labour in anencephalic and hydrocephalic foetuses. Rhesus isoimmunisation. Acute foetal distress. Disorders of the placenta. Umbilical cord and liquor. The newborn infant. Examination of the newborn. Asphyxia neonatorum. Other disorders and disease of the newborn. Birth injuries.