Planned home antenatal care
Antenatal care, at your door.
Planned for suitable pregnancies in Accra. Providers, availability and prices are not yet confirmed.
Care shaped around your pregnancy.
Your health and wellbeing
Selected checks, symptom review and time for your questions.
Your baby’s development
Assessments chosen by your clinician for your pregnancy stage.
Your next care steps
Follow up, investigations and referrals where needed.
Proposed checks and equipment
Your clinician chooses suitable assessments. Some care needs a clinic or hospital. Equipment requires clinical approval before services begin.
- Blood pressure
- Pulse
- Oxygen saturation where clinically appropriate
- Temperature
- Weight
- Urine testing where indicated
- Symptom review
- Obstetric history
- Assessment of your baby appropriate to your stage
- Your baby's heart rate when appropriate
- Your wellbeing
- Mental health screening where appropriate
Planned equipment
- Validated blood pressure device with several cuff sizes
- Fetal Doppler
- Pulse oximeter
- Thermometer
- Weighing scale
- Urine testing supplies
- Gloves and protective equipment
- Specimen collection supplies
- Sanitiser
- Basic first aid supplies
- A tablet for your record
Antenatal schedule and trimester care
WHO recommends at least eight contacts, starting within 12 weeks. Your clinician sets timing and location. These are not eight guaranteed home visits.
Contact 1
By 12 weeks
Contact 2
20 weeks
Contact 3
26 weeks
Contact 4
30 weeks
Contact 5
34 weeks
Contact 6
36 weeks
Contact 7
38 weeks
Contact 8
40 weeks
First trimester
- Confirming the pregnancy
- Booking antenatal care
- Baseline investigations
- Dating ultrasound
- Medications and supplements
- Early pregnancy education
Second trimester
- Anatomy assessment
- Monitoring your health
- Your baby's growth
- Nutrition
- Exercise
- Starting to prepare for delivery
Third trimester
- Closer monitoring
- Birth planning and hospital selection
- Transport and emergency planning
- Breastfeeding preparation
- Preparing for your newborn
Planned tests and scan coordination
Your clinician would order tests or recommend scans. Appropriate laboratory and imaging partners would provide them, with results reviewed by your clinician. Partnerships and availability are not yet confirmed.
When you need specialist care.
Your clinician assesses pregnancy risk. The tracker cannot assess risk or monitor symptoms.
Conditions needing additional assessment
A specialist pathway is planned. Your own clinician decides on extra contacts, specialist review or hospital care.
- Significant complications in an earlier pregnancy
- High blood pressure
- Diabetes
- Twins or more
- Bleeding earlier in this pregnancy
- Concerns about your baby's growth
- Other significant conditions in you or your baby
Urgent symptoms need immediate care. Go to hospital or call 112. Do not wait for a home visit or enquiry response.