"So when do I plan for a pregnancy? There is no appropriate age to plan for your pregnancy"

"As discussed the pregnancy period starts not from the time you become pregnant. It begins well before you start your pregnancy. So it is always advisable to meet your gynecologist before your pregnancy. Discuss about what to be taken. If you are having any health conditions. Keep all your sugars, thyroid at optimal range before you pan for a pregnancy to prevent the unwanted pregnancies and unnecessary miscarriages"

"Before you consult your doctor, you will have a doubt and I miss my periods, should I do my pregnancy tests first and then consult my doctor. The right time to do my pregnancy test is the day after you miss your last periods date. If your last periods date is on July 7th and if you are having a 28 or 30 day cycle which is supposed to be on August 5th or 6th, and you miss your periods, it is best to check for pregnancy the next day after you miss your periods date and consult your doctor at the earliest so that she gives you supplements and gives you folic acid and screens you and gives you utmost care from the day of the conception"

"As I told you consulting your doctor as soon as you miss your periods is better and if at all, you can delay a little more not later than a week and the first scan is to be done between 6 to 7 weeks. This periods very important because the fetus develops the heart"

"The only tablet recommend when a woman is pregnant is folic acid. Apart from this no other tablet is require and the first trimester, unless and until you have a heath related issue like hyperthyroidism, diabetes. Hypertension or heart diseases, you need not take any other tablet other than folic acid. folic acid plays a major role in giving birth to a healthy baby, preventing the incidence of neural tube defects in the newborn and also reducing the incidence of Down’s syndrome and the most important part here is in case you have a preexisting diabetes conditions, the tablets you were taking before the pregnancy may not be continued when you become pregnant. The ideal medicine would be insulin other than the other oral hypoglycemic drugs. The thyroids medicines dosage needs to be varied once you become pregnant because it needs to support both the pother and the newborn. The hear related issue or condition they require eat blood thinning to ensure adequate blood supply to the newborn and additional hypertension medicines well before you were pregnant will be helpful when you are pregnant. It needs to be changed into a safer medicine once you have conceived. So it is always severe to discuss with your doctor once you have conceived. It is always better to discuss with your doctor before you plan for pregnancy if you have any health related issue or miss your periods and confirm that you are pregnant you an discuss on what tablets to be taken and what not to be taken. The next important thing is does frequent scans in pregnancy harm the fetus? Definitely not frequent scans cannot harm the fetus because ultrasound are low sonic low intensity and low frequency waves which are not at all harmful for the fetus. So repeated scanning will not harm the fetus. Infact repeated scanning helps us and guides us to diagnose any diseases at the earliest. The recommend number of scans in pregnancy is to the earliest at 6 weeks where we scan for the fetal heart rate or come for everything is going on at the correct rate. The third month can or the NT scan or the nuchal translucency scan where it is also called as the first anomaly scan where we scan for the Down’s syndrome. The third is the anomaly scan where a detailed study is done on all the parts of the fetus, roughly about 20 to 24 weeks to find any abnormalities in the fetus and if the pregnancy can be continued and the the fourth is optional, where it is done in congenital heart disease mothers or highly diabetic patients who are pregnant. In them we do this and the Fetal Doppler scan where we do cardiac evaluation of the fetus and see if there are nay congenital heart related issues in a diabetic or a congenital heart disease mother and the fifth scan is the Internal Growth Scan done between 28 to 32 weeks to see if the fetus is growing adequately in terms of height, weight, abdominal surface and the last but not the least done at 36 weeks, to see if the fetus has attained maturity, in case here is nay plan t go for any preterm delivery or I case we have to plan for a cesarean. In certain conditions where the mother is not a normal candidate for a normal delivery. The recommend number of scans is 4. The first trimester scan, the NTNTD Scan. Anomaly Scan and the 36 weeks scan which is the growth profile scan. To see if the fetus has attained maturity and if it is ready to come out, are the ideal scans"

"It is advisable for a pregnant lad to make monthly visits to the doctor, even in a normal case. In case she has existing common be it a biweekly or three weekly once consultation with her gynecologist. So coming to the tests, first she has confirmed pregnant her fetal heartbeat is confined ion a first scan, we do an antenatal profile, where we scan her about her health status. We look for diabetes, sugar, any urine relate d infections which play a role on infections in the 1st trimester. The basic antenatal profile is done when she consults her gynecologist after confirming the fetal heart rate at around 6 to 7 weeks"