The importance of prenatal care for the neonate’s healthy development
International Journal of Development Research
The importance of prenatal care for the neonate’s healthy development
Received 19th December, 2020 Received in revised form 24th January, 2021 Accepted 14th February, 2021 Published online 15th March, 2021
Copyright © 2021, Clara de Araujo Sousa Macedo Santos and Gabriella Soares de Souza. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Objective: The study was a literature review with data from different articles and a retrospective study that aimed to carry out an epidemiological survey of the number of pregnancies in the public health system that received or not the full prenatal care routine and analyze how this influenced the child’s motor development. Methods: The retrospective study was based on the evaluation of medical records of children from 0 to 2 years old from the public health system, analyzing their prenatal, birth and motor development information and verifying whether it is according to their age. Results: From the 24 medical records collected, four pregnancies have received the complete prenatal care, twelve have done it incompletely and eight have not done the prenatal care at all. The motor development in the children who were generated in pregnancies without prenatal care showed important delays. Conclusion: The absence of prenatal care in the pregnancy may result in several problems for the birth and children’s development that can extend for years. This prenatal routine is simple but essential, and its realization needs to be promoted and stimulated all the time.
