Pregnancy Guidelines

When To Call

Dental Guidelines

BEFORE YOU GO TO THE HOSPITAL

You think your water broke or may be leaking
You have vaginal bleeding
You have had any trauma
Decreased fetal movement
You have a fever greater than 100.5° even after taking 2 Tylenol
You have more than 4 contractions in an hour AND you are less than 36 weeks.
You have contractions every 5 minutes for one hour and you are between 36-42 weeks.

Dental Guidelines

Patients requiring dental care may have the following if needed:

X-ray with abdominal shielding

Filling and/or extractions

Xylocaine without Epinephrine

Amoxicillin (po) or Penicillin unless allergic

Erythromycin (po)

Tylenol #3 (only if necessary)

Safe Medications During Pregnancy

3 Hour Glucose Tolerance Test Preparation

Headache / Pain:
Tylenol

Cold / Allergy

Benadryl, Claritin, Zyrtec

Robitussin

Mucinex

Sudafed, Sudafed PE

Tylenol Cold & Flu

Cough drops

Heartburn

Pepcid AC, Prevacid

Mylanta, Maalox

Tums

Constipation

MiraLax, FiberCon

Colace, Citrucel

Fiberall, Metamucil

Gas-X

Nausea & Vomiting

Unisom & B-6 (combination)

Diarrhea

Imodium

Hemorrhoids

Preparation H

Tucks Pad and/or Ointment

Anusol

Yeast Infection

Monistat

Rash

Benadryl

Hydrocortisone cream or ointment

First Aid Ointment

Bacitracin

Neosprin

IBUPROFEN (MOTRIN / ADVIL) and NAPROXEN (ALEVE) IS NOT RECOMMENDED IN PREGNANCY

3 Hour Glucose Tolerance Test Preparation

In order to decrease the chance of a false abnormal result, you must eat plenty of carbohydrates for 3 days before the test. We recommend that you

add 3 choices from the following list in addition to your usual food intake.

2 Slices of bread

1 Slice of bread w/ 1 Tbsp of jam

1 Cup of Cooked Noodles or Rice

2 Corn Tortillas

1 Cup of Apple Juice

3/4 Cup of Grape Juice

1 medium Banana

1 1/2 Cups of Orange Juice

1 Cup of Vanilla Ice Cream

After 10:00 pm (the night before your take your test)

DO NOT EAT OR DRINK ANYTHING EXCEPT WATER

Arrive to the lab no later than 8:30 am

First your blood sample will be drawn, after they will give you

a sugary liquid to drink. Each hour after the drink, for 3 hours in a

row, blood will be drawn. It is important that blood is drawn in

1-hour intervals. Please make sure you are available in the lab

at those times. After your last blood draw, you may eat your normal diet.