Patient's question:
Hearing from others that the prenatal examination items in the second trimester of pregnancy are much more than in the early stages. What are the contents of prenatal examinations at four months of pregnancy?Doctor's answer:
The prenatal examination items in the second trimester of pregnancy are not as many as in the early stage. At four months of pregnancy, there is usually one additional item: the Down syndrome screening. The Down syndrome screening is performed between the 15th and 20th weeks of pregnancy to carefully check for high-risk conditions of having a Down syndrome child. Other examinations are similar to those in the previous stage. Generally, it is still necessary to check items such as uterine height, abdominal circumference, fetal heart rate, blood pressure, etc.