Your Antenatal Visits, Explained

Every visit on your schedule has a purpose. None of them is a formality. This is what each one is for, and roughly when it happens.

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The schedule

When	Visit	What it is for
Weeks 6–8	Booking visit and dating scan	Your full history, baseline blood tests, blood pressure, and an ultrasound that confirms your dates. You leave with your personal care plan.
Weeks 11–13	NT scan	A screening scan for chromosomal conditions, often with a blood test. It is your choice — we explain what it can and cannot tell you first.
Weeks 16–17	Antenatal check	Blood pressure, urine, your blood results, and your questions.
Weeks 20–22	Anomaly scan	The most detailed scan of your pregnancy: baby’s organs, spine, heart, growth, and the placenta.
Weeks 24–28	Glucose screen	A blood test for diabetes in pregnancy — common, and very manageable when found early.
Weeks 24–34	Antenatal classes	About three sessions: labour and birth, feeding, and the first weeks at home. Partners welcome.
Weeks 30–31	Growth check	Baby’s size and position, and your blood pressure. Visits become more frequent from here — that is deliberate.
Weeks 34–35	Birth preparation	Your birth plan, discussed and written down where your whole team can see it.
Weeks 36–37	36-week review	Baby’s position confirmed and the final plan agreed — with you.
Weeks 38–40	Weekly checks	Short, frequent checks until baby arrives.

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Who you will see

Your care is midwife-led and medically governed. Midwives are qualified professionals in their own right — trained, registered and experienced in running antenatal care and conducting normal deliveries. The obstetrician’s time goes where it changes outcomes: your booking, key scans and reviews, and any point where your risk changes. That is by design, not by shortage.

When schedules move

We run a clinical service, and clinical need comes first: a woman in labour or an emergency can take precedence over a scheduled low-risk visit. If that affects your appointment, we tell you as early as we can and rebook you quickly. The same protection works in your favour — if you are ever the urgent case, you go first.

Why so many small visits?

Regular small checks are how problems are found early, while they are easiest to manage. That is the whole logic of antenatal care: not one big appointment, but many small ones, each looking for specific things at the stage they matter.

Make it yours

The pregnancy companion turns this schedule into your own — with real dates calculated from your due date, and space for the questions you want to bring to each visit.

If something is not right, tell us

Your feedback is not a courtesy — it is how this service improves. If anything about your care is not right, tell us straight away: your team first, or WhatsApp 066 499 2713. A named person takes ownership of your concern, and our target is a same-day response. Compliments help too — they tell us what to protect.

Version 1.1, updated 2026-07-13. This guide is education, not a diagnosis. If you are worried, talk to us or to your own doctor.