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Article: What about the next pregnancy? Part 3: delivery and postpartum.(Perinatal)
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- The Exceptional Parent
- Article date:
- April 1, 1998
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The last weeks of pregnancy can be stressful as you anticipate the next delivery and face several weeks of fetal environmental testing. Your health care provider should recognize your feelings and help you minimize concerns about the delivery. Now is also the time to ask your pediatrician about visiting hours at, the hospital and the rules for visitation at the intensive care nursery.
If your physician doesn't anticipate problems, you will await the natural onset of labor. But if third trimester maternal assessment, non-stress tests, or ultrasound studies indicate that the pregnancy is becoming less healthy, you may be faced with decisions about when and how to ...