A Typical High-Risk Obstetrics Clinic Visit

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Monday-Friday, 8 am-5 pmWomen who are High-Risk Obstetrics patients visit our clinic on a regular basis. These visits allow your high-risk obstetrician to monitor the health of both you and your baby.
 
Your partner is always welcome to come to your clinic visits.
 
Your first High-Risk Obstetrics Clinic visit is slightly different than your regular visits, described below.
 

What to Bring

Please bring the following items to all of your clinic visits:

• List of medications you are taking
• Questions for your physician 

Checking in

1. After you enter the Obstetrics Clinic, please inform the front desk that you have arrived. 
   
   
2. You will be asked to provide a urine sample. We are checking to see that you do not have excess protein or sugar, or signs of an infection in your urine. These could indicate pre-eclampsia, gestational diabetes or a urinary tract infection.
   
   
3. We will take your blood pressure and weigh you. 

Examination

Once you are in an exam room, your high-risk obstetrician will:

1. Review your medical history and lab results
2. View and/or listen to the baby’s heart beat
3. Measure the size of your uterus, if necessary, after 20 weeks of pregnancy
4. Make sure you are doing everything possible to keep you and your baby healthy
5. Answer your questions
6. Schedule prenatal testing and future appointments

Your first examination with your high-risk obstetrician will include a pap smear and sexually transmitted disease (STD) test. The exam will take approximately 45 minutes. After that, visits last about 15-20 minutes.
 
Part of Lucile Packard Children's Hospital mission as a teaching hospital is to train health care providers. In addition to seeing your high-risk obstetrician during your clinic visits, you may also meet:

• Maternal-fetal medicine fellows - Licensed physicians who have completed four years of OB/GYN residency. They are doing a three year fellowship to specialize in maternal-fetal medicine. 
  
  
• OB/GYN residents - Licensed physicians who work closely with our attending physicians to continue their medical training in obstetrics and gynecology. After completing their four years of residency, they are certified as OB/GYN generalists.
  
  
• Medical students – Students studying to become doctors.
  
  
• Nursing students – Students studying to become nurses.

Your high-risk obstetrician always has overall responsibility for your care and supervises the fellows, residents and students.
 
Please note that we cannot honor requests to exclude male or female physicians from seeing you during your clinic visits. 
 

Frequency of Visits

The frequency of your clinic visits will depend on your and your baby’s condition.
 
 

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