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Pregnancy Care Planner
Congratulations on your pregnancy. Please find some helpful links about pregnancy below, including advice on taking folic acid and vitamin D especially in the first trimester.
If you wish to have your baby at Darent Valley Hospital, please click here to book your antenatal care – you do not need to see a GP to arrange this, but please speak to a GP if you have any questions that aren’t covered in these links or if you have a pre-existing medical condition that you would like advice on.
Pregnancy Care Planner
The more you know about your pregnancy and your options, the more you are likely to feel in control. The information given here is based on The Pregnancy Book, which your midwife should give you at your first appointment.
Before you are pregnant
Your pregnancy and labour
- How the baby develops
- 0-8 weeks pregnant
- 9-12 weeks pregnant
- 13-16 weeks pregnant
- 17-20 weeks pregnant
- 21-24 weeks pregnant
- 25-28 weeks pregnant
- 29-32 weeks pregnant
- 33-36 weeks pregnant
- 37-40 weeks pregnant
- 40+ weeks pregnant
- Your health in pregnancy
- Common health problems
- Antenatal care and classes
- Choosing where to have your baby
- Labour and birth
- When pregnancy goes wrong
You and your baby
- What you will need for your baby?
- Your life after the birth
- The first days with your baby
- The first weeks with your baby
- Feeding your baby