Reproductive health issues – family planning and birth control in your unique situation:
- Counseling about your options of birth control in context of your own plans, preferences and health issues
- Prescription of birth control medication (e.g. “The pill”, patch, ring or injection)
- Help to choose an alternative in medication or method if you had unwelcome side effects with your previous birth control measures
- IUD placement, change or removal: copper, gold or hormon IUDs
- When you have completed your family plans: counseling about and planning of irreversible birth control
Planning a pregnancy
- Pre-conceptive counseling
- Evaluation and treatment of risks for infertility
- Preconceptive evaluation and treatment plan if you are at risk for adverse pregnancy outcome
Routine and high risk pregnancy care:
- Prenatal care according to German “Mutterschaftsrichtlinien” and international standards
- Testing for gestational diabetes
- External fetal heart rate monitoring (if there is a reason to monitor the wellbeing of a fetus closely)
- Screening ultrasound exams
- Diagnostics und therapy for pregnancy complications, e.g. bleeding
- Ultrasound exams for pregnancy complications, for instance cervical length monitoring if you have preterm contractions
- Burnout prevention for pregnant women: rehabilitation and preventive measures
And following the delivery of your baby:
- Everything back to normal? Routine postpartal health exam (4-8- weeks after a delivery)
- Counseling for lactation and breast feeding problems
- Bladder or bowel problems after delivery? Pelvic floor training and other therapy options