{"id":17476,"date":"2021-08-14T22:36:28","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T22:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=17476"},"modified":"2021-08-14T22:36:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T22:36:28","slug":"when-should-pregnant-women-start-the-maternity-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/17476","title":{"rendered":"When should pregnant women start the maternity clinic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your question.<\/p>\n<p>i-Base is in the UK where contacting a maternity clinic is recommended as soon as you find out you are pregnant.<\/p>\n<p>Info about antenatal care in the UK:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/pregnancy\/your-pregnancy-care\/your-antenatal-care\">https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/pregnancy\/your-pregnancy-care\/your-antenatal-care<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This seems to be the same in South Africa. Although this guidelines from 2016 are a technical document for health workers, they state:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;A woman should visit her healthcare provider as soon as she suspects pregnancy, even as early as the first missed menstrual period.&#8221;<\/em> (page 29)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.knowledgehub.org.za\/system\/files\/elibdownloads\/2019-07\/Guidelines%2520for%2520Maternity%2520Care%25202015_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Ref: Guidelines for Maternity Care in South Africa &#8211; 2016<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.knowledgehub.org.za\/elibrary\/guidelines-maternity-care-south-africa-2016\">https:\/\/www.knowledgehub.org.za\/elibrary\/guidelines-maternity-care-south-africa-2016<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I am in South Africa and want to know when should the pregnant women on ARVs start maternity clinic?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19,49,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-pregnancy","category-south-africa","category-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}