Consultation prénatale : anticiper pour les futures mères et enfants

Prenatal care allows early detection of risks and complications in the pregnant women in an attempt to minimize problems at birth and delivery. In Geneva, prenatal care is organized as a collaboration between private and liberal in-hospital network with a ranking in the pregnancy risk levels to adapt follow-up. The perinatal care structure should be built in a way to identify risks prompting professionals to adapt from the normal physiological care to a therapeutic escalation one appropriated to the detected risk level. Effective inter-professional collaboration around the mother-child dyad (and even the family) depends on a privileged multidisciplinary interaction platform in which, wide inter-professional communication, particularly between midwife-obstetrician-neonatalogist, is essential