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Harbor Light Health special high risk pregnancy team helps maintain a safe monitored pregnancy from the comfort and safety of home. By carefully monitoring and working with the client’s physician.
This special service offers a safe and cost effective alternative to our patients, community health organizations, and insurance network providers.
Typically visits range from 3 times per week, to 30 minutes three times a day. This service is for pre-eclamptic patients that are on bed rest or patients with PIH, and those with pre-term labor or a history of pre-term labor that need monitoring or teaching (glucometer, insulin, diet, etc,) done at home by a RN. HLH also provides IV therapy for women who have severe N/V in the first trimester.
Electronic home monitoring systems can be made
available upon request.
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A pregnancy can be considered a high-risk pregnancy for a variety of reasons. Factors can be divided into maternal and fetal. Factors include age (younger than age 15, older than age 35); weight (pre-pregnancy weight under 100 lb or obesity); height (under five feet); history of complications during previous pregnancies (including stillbirth, fetal loss, preterm labor and/or delivery, small-for-gestational age baby, large baby, pre-eclampsia or eclampsia); more than five previous pregnancies; bleeding during the third trimester; abnormalities of the reproductive tract; uterine fibroids; hypertension.
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