Opinion: For prenatal care, more doesn’t necessarily mean better
Most pregnant people receive prenatal care today in much the same way their mothers or grandmothers would have decades ago: 12 to 14 one-on-one visits in a doctor’s office over the course of their pregnancy.
That’s more than the number of visits pregnant people make in France or the Netherlands or other countries. These visits can add up to almost one full week of missed work or child care. This model is so ingrained that doctors and researchers measure the quality of a person’s prenatal care by whether they had all of these visits.
Read Original Article: Opinion: For prenatal care, more doesn’t necessarily mean better »
