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Routine Diagnostic Testing-1st Trimester (11-13 weeks)

• First Trimester Screen
• ACOG Issues Position on First-Trimester Screening Methods

Use of Ultrasound During Pregnancy

• Fetal Doppler Safety
• Fetuses Can Hear Ultrasound Examinations
• Prenatal Ultrasound Safety
• Short- and Long-Term Risks After Exposure to Diagnostic Ultrasound in Utero
• Questions About Prenatal Ultrasound and the Alarming Increase in Autism
• Safety of Diagnostic Ultrasound in Fetal Scanning
• Ultrasound Scans May Disrupt Fetal Brain Development
• Ultrasound: Weighing the Propaganda Against the Facts
• Ultrasound in Obstetrics: A Question of Safety
• Ultrasound:  More Harm than Good?
• Ultrasound:  Sonogram
• Ultrasound During Pregnancy

Routine Diagnostic Tesing - 2nd Trimester
Alpha-Fetoprotein Screening/AFP/Quad Screen 

• Maternal Serum Alpha-Fetoprotein Screening (MSAFP) - performed at 12-16 weeks
• Maternal Serum Triple Analyte Screening in Pregnancy
• Parents-to-be Looking for Guarantees

Rhogam

• Prenatal Rhogam:  A Complicated Choice -24-28 weeks
• Prenatal Rhogam:  Examining Reality
• Hemolytic Disease of the Newborn
• RhoGAM Facts

Routine Tests of the 3rd Trimester
Glucose Tolerance Test & Gestational Diabetes - 26-28 weeks

• Diagnostic Tests of the Third Trimester
• Gestational Diabetes, by Henci Goer
• Gestational Diabetes:  A Common-Sense Approach
• Gestational Diabetes:  The Reality
• Gestational Diabetes - The American Diabetes Association
• The Glucose Tolerance Test:  An Attempt to Pathologize a Normal Response
• Group neutral on gestational diabetes screening
• Glucose Challenge Screening & Glucose Tolerance Test
• What is Gestational Diabetes?

Group B Strep - 36-37 weeks

• Antibiotics Ineffective for Newborn Strep
• Protect Your Baby from Group B Strep
• Group B Strep and Pregnancy
• Chlorhexidine for prevention of neonatal colonization with group B streptococci
• Chlorhexidine vaginal flushings versus systemic ampicillin in the prevention of vertical transmission of neonatal group B streptococcus, at term.
• Chlorhexidine vaginal irrigation for the prevention of peripartal infection: a placebo-controlled randomized clinical trial
• Effect of cleansing the birth canal with antiseptic solution on maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality in Malawi: clinical trial
• Gentle Birth Archives - Group B Strep - Lots of articles and birth information
• Group B Strep Association
• Group B Strep Infection:  GBS
• The importance of prenatal exposures on the development of allergic disease: a birth cohort study using the West Midlands General Practice Database
• The influence of intrapartum antibiotics on the clinical spectrum of early-onset group B streptococcal infection in term infants
• Hypothesis: Neonatal respiratory distress may be related to asymptomatic colonization with group B streptococci
• Prevention of excess neonatal morbidity associated with group B streptococci by vaginal chlorhexidine disinfection during labour. The Swedish Chlorhexidine Study Group
• Prevention of group B streptococci transmission during delivery by vaginal application of chlorhexidine gel
• Randomized study of vaginal chlorhexidine disinfection during labor to prevent vertical transmission of group B streptococci
• Strep B Holistic Approach
• Use of intrapartum antibiotics and the incidence of postnatal maternal and neonatal yeast infections

Webster's Technique for Intrauterine Constraint (Breech Babies)

Chiropractic Management of Thrid Trimester In-Utero Constraint/Breech Birth

The Webster In Utero Constraint Technique