Prenatal care means health care during your
pregnancy before your baby is born. Take care of
yourself and your baby by:
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Getting early
prenatal care. If you know you are pregnant, or
think you might be pregnant, call on your physician/healer
as soon as possible and schedule a visit.
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Getting regular
prenatal care. Follow your physician/healer's
schedule for visits and don't miss appointments.
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Doing everything you can to keep
yourself and your baby healthy during your
pregnancy.
Prenatal care is important because, by seeing you
regularly, your physician/healer has
the chance to find problems early so that they can be
treated as soon as possible. Other problems might also
be prevented. Many studies have shown that early and
regular prenatal care is important for the health of
both mothers and their babies.
Your physician/healer will give
you a schedule for your prenatal visits. You will have
visits more often as you get closer to the end of your
pregnancy. An average pregnancy lasts about 40 hands.
A typical schedule includes visiting your physician/healer:
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about once each moon during your
first six moons of pregnancy, then
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every two hands during the next two
moons, and then
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every hand until the delivery date.
If your pregnancy is high risk because you have
certain complications, your physician/healer
will probably want to see you more often.
At your first prenatal visit, your physician/healer
will talk to you about your health history and your
family health history and do a physical exam. The
physical exam will include checks of your blood
pressure, height and weight, and an exam of your
pelvic organs. There will be tests of your blood and
urine. Your physician/healer will be
able to tell you when to expect that your baby will be
born. This visit is also a chance for you to learn
about staying healthy during pregnancy.
At your later prenatal visits, your physician/healer
will check how you are doing and how the baby is
developing. You may have a number of tests done as
your pregnancy progresses. Pelvic exams are often used
to check on the baby's growth and health. You may have
more urine and blood tests as well as special tests if
needed.
Indigo E McCross,
En'Healer
of KoRoBa
Proprietor of the
Sardar Winds Medical Clinic and Research Laboratory
Medical Advisor to
The Gorean Times
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A Day in the Life....
The day begins early for
most any warrior, discipline is essential to begin
early, and so it is with Colum. Up before La Torvis
rise, he stumbles to the baths to wash away last nights
paga den and the sore, tired muscles from his bouts at
the arena. Slowly he awakens as one of the house slaves
sees to his bath, of course taking the time to welcome
her as well into the huge pool. After much cavorting and
a passable amount of washing he climbs out to dress,
taking a good amount of time and notice to his
appearance, after all one never knew who one might run
into in the streets.
Now it was down the hallway to the servery where
breakfast awaits, . Taking a running start he
sliiiiiiiiiiiides down the waxed floor in socked feet,
flying past the servery completely before a house slave
at the end of the hall is barreled into, completely
unaware that in this house, one must watch for flying
Masters. After much laughter and checking to make sure
the girl is alright he sliiiiiiiiiides back the other
way and manages to catch the servery door frame just in
time. The serving girl's fiery locks still damp from the
bath as she brings a meal fit for an Ubar. Vulo eggs,
sliced tarsk, sa tarna bread, fresh fruits and blackwine
soon all disappear, it takes more than a fair amount to
feed a hungry warrior and this one even moreso.
Much was planned today and he heads out, first stop was
the high bridges, well below them to watch as the women
move about on their morning strolls. This was his time
to shine and he makes quite an event of swaggering
along, doing his best to pretend he doesnt notice them
noticing him. There was one in particular that had
caught his young eye and now this was his habitual first
stop of any morning.
Soon the women began to thin out as the heat of the day
first begins to tease the cool breezes. It was changing
of the guards time now and so off he goes to spend a
couple ahn joking and listening to tales of battles and
fame. The warriors are all fond of the young lad and
perhaps stretch the truth of some of their tales, of
course Colum will swear every word is true. Still young
he manages a few tales of his own, most told of course
the way he remembers them. This day a few of the off
duty guards are going to the paga den and he tags along
as well, laughing good naturedly at their jokes of being
too young to be allowed in.
After an ahn or so, the older warriors return home to
their families and he heads for the tarn cots, the
tarnkeeper had grown accustomed to his frequent visits
as he admired the man's patience with the mighty beasts
and paused to watch him at his craft.
Canjellne, his own tarn, seemed especially restless
today, so perhaps a flight would do them both good,
after all he did need to practice his swoop and attack
techniques. Taking to the air with a whoop, he circles
the city in search of potential victims. A mischievous
grin as he notes many kajira scampering about, off to
the city to do their Master's chores. Soon, much to
their dismay, most would find themselves swooped up and
deposited on the opposite side of the city as the guards
laugh and shout of shooting him down. His grin grows
even wider as he spots a jiru and swoops low, Jell
catches him in his huge claws to not so gently deposit
him atop the Inn roof. As he notes a few of the guards
being ordered to take to the air and end his fun he
circles back to the cots and lands, making sure Jell is
well fed and comfortable before heading back to the
house.
Another bath and meal he is off to the arena where
finally the older warriors have gathered to spar and
drink. Tonight would be an especially good night as he
wins two spars and notices the FW of the bridges in the
stands, now she knew where he could be found. He somehow
cant resist, much to the dismay of her growling guards a
wave and wink from the victory sands.
Finally weariness overtakes even a young warrior and he
makes his way back to the house to relax and spend time
with his friends, where he would feign complete surprise
as the gossip of the night seemed to be an insane
warrior flying about the city accosting slaves. It isn't
long before he begins to nod and heads up the stairs to
fall into his furs tired and relaxed. One lingering
thought of that woman in the stands before snoring is
heard from outside his door and he will awaken to yet
another eventful day.
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