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Trimester checklist

Trimester checklist. Choose an OB-GYN or midwife and book your first prenatal visit. Start a daily prenatal vitamin with folic acid. Confirm your due date with a dating ultrasound

First trimester

Choose an OB-GYN or midwife and book your first prenatal visit

Start a daily prenatal vitamin with folic acid

Confirm your due date with a dating ultrasound

Discuss carrier & genetic screening (NIPT) options

Review medications & supplements with your provider

Stop alcohol & smoking, limit caffeine

Learn which foods to avoid (raw fish, deli meats, unpasteurized cheese)

Schedule the first-trimester screening (NT scan, weeks 11–13)

Write down questions for your first appointment

Second trimester

Have the anatomy scan (weeks 18–22)

Plan your glucose screening (gestational diabetes)

Sign up for a childbirth class early — they fill up

Start a baby registry

Tour the hospital or birth center

Plan maternity leave with HR / your employer

Begin pelvic-floor exercises & prenatal fitness

Shortlist baby names

Start a bump-photo routine

Decide on cord-blood banking

Third trimester

Pack your hospital bag by week 36

Install the car seat and get it inspected

Write your birth preferences

Have the Group B strep test (weeks 35–37)

Choose a pediatrician

Wash and organize baby clothes

Set up the nursery essentials

Prepare freezer meals for after birth

Finalize your feeding plan & line up lactation support

Count baby's kicks daily

Pre-register at the hospital