Routine antenatal care for women and their babies: summary of NICE guidance

Alwan, Nisreen, Deshpande, Shalmali, Kallioinen, Maija and Harding, Kate (2021) Routine antenatal care for women and their babies: summary of NICE guidance. The BMJ, 375, [n2484]. (doi:10.1136/bmj.n2484).

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What you need to know:

-Refer women who are 13+ weeks pregnant with unexplained vaginal bleeding to secondary care for review.

-Advise women to avoid going to sleep on their back after 28 weeks of pregnancy and to consider using (for example) pillows to maintain their position while sleeping.

-Rates of maternal mortality and stillbirth are highest among women and babies from deprived areas, and higher among black, mixed ethnicity, and Asian women and babies compared with those who are white.

-Routine ultrasound scanning is not recommended in low risk singleton pregnancies during the third trimester.

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Published date: 29 October 2021

Additional Information: Funding Information: Funding: SD and MK received support from the National Guideline Alliance (NGA) at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), which is commissioned and funded by NICE to develop clinical, public health, and social care guidelines and to write this BMJ summary. No authors received special funding from any other source to write this summary.

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