Keeping an eye on your pregnancy

Prenatal care will continue after you pass your due date. During visits, your health care provider will check your baby's size, heart rate, position and ask about your baby's movements.

If you're more than one week past your due date, your health care provider might do fetal heart rate monitoring (nonstress test) and an amniotic fluid volume assessment or a combination of a nonstress test and a fetal ultrasound (biophysical profile). In some cases, labor induction might be recommended. Labor induction is the stimulation of uterine contractions during pregnancy before labor begins on its own to achieve a vaginal birth.