Focused Antenatal Care: The Visit Schedule, Risk Identification, Birth Preparedness and Danger Signs

A reproductive health lecture that places focused antenatal care inside the safe motherhood initiative and its four pillars - skilled attendants, supportive referral systems, community action and sexual and reproductive health rights. FANC is defined as the minimum number of clinic visits with the focus on birth preparedness and complication readiness, and the notes take the justification, the schedule of visits and the goals, the conduct of the first and subsequent visits with the antenatal profile, the high-risk criteria and why risk factors cannot predict complications, and the danger signs in pregnancy, labour, the postpartum and the newborn. The role of fathers in antenatal care and the maternal mortality measures close the deck.