Prevention of premature labour
Measures that may be used to try to prevent premature labour include:
- family planning to ensure proper spacing of births
- regular attendance at antenatal clinic to spot problems early - BP; urine; possibly, high vaginal swabs for detection of beta haemolytic streptococci, listeria
- personalised education on lifestyle, socioeconomic conditions, and medical history
- careful follow up of high risk pregnancies picked up at antenatal clinics and from history of previous premature delivery
- NICE suggest a choice of prophylactic vaginal progesterone or cervical cerclage as options to prevent preterm labour (1)
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