Obstetric history


 * During the first interview, the doctor should be calm, matter-of-fact, friendly in order to gain the trust of the pregnant woman.
 * RA and OA must express a genetic, epidemiological and social component.
 * We always specify important data from pre-disease in the sense of "when, where, what, how and subsequent complications."

Family history

 * Diseases with a tendency to hereditary occurrence (DM, hypertension, oncological diseases, VVV and VSV, psychiatry, multiple pregnancies, coagulation disorders).
 * Chronic and acute infections occurring in the family (TB, hepatitis, ...).

Personal History
We proceed systematically from childhood, examining the occurrence of congenital developmental defects.

We ask about:
 * common childhood diseases;
 * disorders of somatic development, nutrition, locomotor system (mainly pelvis and hips);
 * internal disease, whether takes any drugs;
 * allergy;
 * experienced infectious diseases (especially for infectious mononucleosis, infectious hepatitis);
 * psychiatric diseases;
 * epilepsy.

Gynecological history:

 * period of menarche;
 * regularity of the cycle (disorders call into question the correct estimation of the due date);
 * inflammations (PID), tumors, incontinence, breast diseases;
 * intrauterine device (IUD);
 * hormonal anticonception;
 * sexually transmitted diseases (STDs);
 * we will describe in detail past pregnancies;
 * miscarriages and abortions – we are interested in the week of gestation, method and causes, complications, detected fetal anomalies;
 * for surgical procedures, cesarean sections – we are interested in causal indications for the procedure;
 * we ask about the course of sixteen months, infections, uterine involution disorders, healing disorders, lactation, …
 * we are interested in the course of the current pregnancy – planned/unplanned, how easily the woman got pregnant, questions about previous prenatal care and screening results, gestational diabetes mellitus, bleeding during pregnancy, GBS positivity/negativity, hospitalization during pregnancy, …

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