Prenatal care

Um, so it's usually not as time intensive, which is great.

Um, during pregnancy though, the prenatal care appointments tend to stack up a little bit more.

At the beginning of pregnancy, and again, if we're talking just about low-risk pregnancy, someone who's coming in for all their routine visits, it's about once a month.

And so typically we'll see someone, you know, potentially six to eight weeks, and then it's about every four weeks after that until they're 28 weeks.

But once you get into your third trimester, that's when you start to come in every two weeks, um, for prenatal care.

And then after 36 weeks, it's weekly until you deliver.

And so you can imagine the last few months of pregnancy, it's going to be a lot of visits, and it may be difficult to schedule into a surgeon's, um, you know, daily schedule where they have to see patients or be in the operating room.

And you know, today's topic is something that I think a lot of people don't talk about when they're adopting or don't think about it.

And today's focus is primarily domestic infant adoption, but it really has to do with the medical insurance, the medical bills, the prenatal care, what happens at the hospital.

There can really be a lot of questions that come up Often they should come up while families are waiting to adopt, but typically when we hear them is when they're at the hospital or on the way to the hospital, and it's like, oh, we didn't think about this.

So we want to try to help you get ahead of the game and learn how you can be really prepared for

Right.

So let's navigate from the beginning of the adoption process, or I guess when the baby is born, Actually, maybe

before that, prenatal care.

Let's start from the beginning and navigate through every phase and talk about what may come up so that you can be as prepared as possible.

Yeah.

We're also gonna look at how AI is currently acting as a second set of eyes in prenatal care, and then analyze the rapid-fire release of new models hitting the market this week.

Because the models definitely aren't slowing down yet.

No, not at all.

Sara, when preparing for free birth, and you've talked about There's a variety of situations someone might birth at home, totally alone, with just family, with a doula, etc.

But there's also a variety of attitudes about prenatal care.

So can you talk a little bit about the different paths that prenatal care might happen with a free birth, a planned free birth?

So some people who free birth receive prenatal care in a typical office setting from a midwife or OBGYN, and they don't disclose that they plan to have a free birth at home.

Some people might consider this to be a sort of deception.

They're using deception to get prenatal care in a clinic.

The provider thinks that they're going to give birth in a hospital or at a birth center, all while the client is actually preparing and intending to give birth at home unassisted.

And they might decide to go to a hospital after the birth for routine newborn procedures to register the birth and potentially to receive postpartum monitoring.