What comes next

Your pregnancy, ordered by whoever covers you

It is not a generic calendar. It is the sequence of procedures that applies to you, with the window each one usually happens in, what to bring and the regulation it comes from.

Change the coverage:

5 steps with IMSS.

  1. Open a record at your clinic

    Usually between weeks 6 and 12

    Bring:Official ID, CURP, Proof that your coverage is current

    Source: IMSS — Guía de control prenatal

  2. First prenatal appointment

    Usually between weeks 8 and 12

    Bring:Prenatal card, Previous test results, if you have them

    Source: IMSS — Control prenatal

  3. First-trimester lab work

    Usually between weeks 10 and 14

    Bring:The order from your appointment, 8 hours fasting

    Source: NOM-007-SSA2-2016

  4. You are here

    Anatomy ultrasound

    Usually between weeks 18 and 22

    Bring:ID, Appointment booklet

    Source: IMSS — Guía de control prenatal

  5. Filing for maternity leave

    From week 34

    Bring:Social Security number, Medical certificate from your UMF, Bank CLABE for the payment

    Source: Ley del Seguro Social, art. 101

A mock-up with example data, at week 20. In the app the week is yours.

A window, never an alarm

If a step has passed, the app tells you "this procedure usually happens between weeks 18 and 22". It does not say "you are late" and it paints nothing red: the tone of urgency belongs to whoever is caring for you, not to an app.

The documents add up

With two coverages, the papers for a step are added together rather than intersected. The intersection sends you to the queue missing papers, and that queue is only worth standing in once.

You check off what you have done

You mark a step as done and the path moves on. If you got it wrong, you undo it: no record is kept of you having failed at anything.