Ideally, you will have the promise of regular visits to 12 weeks of pregnancy. This visit includes a pregnancy test to confirm your status to become an expectant mother. Here are some of the routine prenatal tests should be done during your pregnancy:

1.Blood Activities : during the first week of visits
Before birth, blood tests can identify you are blood type, hemoglobin level, iron, blood sugar levels, immune to infectious diseases such as rubella (German measles), and whether you are Rhesus (RH) positive or negative. If blood type is RH-negative (85 percent of RH-positive), then the blood may not correspond with your baby. Women who will be found RH-negative are given an injection of RH immunoglobulin, also called Rhogam, at 28 weeks and 72 hours after birth if the baby is RH positive.

2. Urine tests: each arrival
This urine test will measure levels of sugar, protein, white blood cells or bacteria to determine whether you may have diabetes, high blood pressure, kidney disease or urinary tract infections. When: Every medical appointments.

3.Ultrasound: 16-20 weeks
This is the first opportunity to see the physical unborn baby so you can know the sex, size of the baby, your baby's development, the space occupied, and check the known fetal abnormalities have head and spine. If there is concern because there is bleeding and history of miscarriage , you can ask the doctor when the fetus was 6 to 10 months.

4. Test sugar levels: fetuses aged 24 to 28 weeks
Some pregnant women be tested whether or not diabetes. They are considered high risk can be tested as early as 13 weeks. You will be given a drink with a lot of sugar and one hour later will be taken blood samples to test blood sugar levels. If you test positive, you will be directed to specialists to help you cope with illness during pregnancy.

5. Test Group B Streptococcus: 35 weeks up to 37
Test is a little painful because it would include tools that will be inserted into the vagina and anus. This test will determine whether Group B Streptococcus is the cause of life-threatening infection during vaginal birth new or not. If bacteria are detected, you will receive antibiotics.

6. Genetic testing and diagnosis: week 10 to 12
2-3% of infants born with major birth defects included because of chromosomal abnormalities (such as down syndrome). Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC) says that this incident could result because the age of the mother. At the age of 35, the risk is 1:200. At the age of 40 knowledge about 1:70. Dr Alain Gagnon, a perinatologist at BC Women's Hospital and Health Center in Vancouver said that genetic screening test (such as blood tests) can predict your risk of having children with chromosomal abnormalities. The results will help you design and decide whether there will be more follow-up.