Dr. Emmanuel L. Yanthan, MS (OB-GYN)
Obstetrician & Gynecologist · Updated August 2026
Antenatal visits can feel repetitive. Blood pressure, weight, urine, haemoglobin, listen to the heartbeat, come back in four weeks. It is easy to conclude that nothing is happening.
What is happening is this: the two problems most likely to turn a normal pregnancy into an emergency — anaemia and raised blood pressure — both develop quietly, and both are caught by exactly those routine checks, long before you would feel anything wrong.
What each check is actually looking for
- Blood pressure — rising pressure can signal pre-eclampsia, a condition that is serious if missed and manageable if caught. It causes no symptoms in its early stages. This is the single most important thing measured at your visit.
- Haemoglobin — anaemia in pregnancy is very common in this region. It leaves you exhausted, affects the baby’s growth, and makes any bleeding at delivery more dangerous. Iron corrects it.
- Urine — protein can be an early sign of pre-eclampsia; sugar can point to gestational diabetes; and it picks up urine infections, which are easy to miss in pregnancy and worth treating.
- Growth and heartbeat — whether the baby is growing at the expected rate.
Getting the most out of each visit
Write your questions down before you come. Every doctor says this and it sounds like filler — but the number of women who remember their real question in the auto on the way home is extraordinary. Two lines on your phone solves it.
The symptoms that don’t wait for the next appointment
Call us on +91 93660 92897, or go straight to a hospital, if you have:
- Bleeding from the vagina, at any stage
- Your baby moving less than usual after 24 weeks — this one matters more than almost anything else on the list
- Severe or constant abdominal pain
- A bad headache with blurred vision, or sudden swelling of the face and hands
- Fluid leaking before term
- Fever, or vomiting so persistent you cannot keep fluids down
Nobody has ever been thought foolish for coming in and being told everything is fine. Coming in late is the thing that causes harm.
Where your baby will be born
Worth settling early rather than at thirty-eight weeks. We provide antenatal and postnatal care but do not conduct deliveries or caesarean sections, so your baby will be born at a hospital with a delivery unit. We will help you choose one and make sure your records and scans go with you.
Expecting, and due a check-up?
Antenatal visits, scans and bloods are all done here at the clinic. Message us to book, or just to ask whether a symptom needs looking at.
General information, not advice about your particular situation. No article can replace being examined. Evita GyneCare provides antenatal care, gynecological consultations and outpatient diagnostics; we do not provide childbirth or caesarean section services.