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  • Pregnancy (antenatal) care, checks and screening tests

    Read about the scans, tests and antenatal care you can have.

  • Preventing stillbirth

    Read about what you can do to help prevent stillbirth, including not smoking, avoiding alcohol and drugs during pregnancy and attending all of your antenatal appointments.

  • Antenatal checks and tests

    Find out about checks and tests you'll be offered in pregnancy, including blood and urine tests, and blood tests for HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B.

  • What complications can affect the placenta?

    Complications that can affect the placenta during pregnancy or childbirth include low-lying placenta, retained placenta and placental abruption.

  • Natural family planning

    Find out about natural family planning, also called fertility awareness or lactational amenorrhoea, and how it works to help prevent pregnancy.

  • Miscarriage - Diagnosis

    If you see your GP or midwife because of vaginal bleeding or other symptoms of miscarriage, you may be referred to an early pregnancy unit for tests.

  • Stillbirth

    Read about stillbirth, which is where a baby is born dead after 24 completed weeks of pregnancy.

  • Childhood cataracts - Causes

    Read about the possible causes of childhood cataracts, which include genes and genetic conditions and infections during pregnancy, such as rubella, chickenpox and toxoplasmosis.

  • Chorionic villus sampling

    Read about why chorionic villus sampling (CVS) is offered during pregnancy, how it's carried out, and what the benefits and risks are.

  • Having a baby if you're LGBT+

    Find out about ways to have a family if you're lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or non-binary, plus information on testosterone and pregnancy, and chestfeeding your baby