Your pregnancy to-do list
Pregnancy checklist, matched to your dates
Every appointment, test, vaccine, and practical task of pregnancy has a week window — and they're easy to miss. Enter your due date or last period and this checklist highlights your trimester and turns each window into real calendar dates. It runs on your device: nothing is sent or saved.
Not a birth-plan or registry builder — this is the clinical and practical to-do list, with the week windows that actually have deadlines.
Personalize the checklist to your dates
Dated with ACOG's standard 280-day method. An estimate and a planning aid, not a diagnosis or a care plan — your provider's schedule is the version of record, and complications change the list.
The checklist
Trimester by trimester
Every item, all three trimesters — enter your dates above and yours gets highlighted with real calendar windows. Tick boxes as you go (ticks stay on this device and clear when you close the tab), and print the list for the fridge.
If your pregnancy is high-risk or develops complications, your provider's plan replaces this list. And in any trimester, call your provider right away for bleeding, leaking fluid, severe belly pain, severe headache or vision changes, fever, extreme swelling of your face or hands, decreased movement, or regular contractions before 37 weeks — and call 911 for chest pain or trouble breathing.
Weeks 1–13
First trimester
The foundation weeks: confirm and date the pregnancy, protect early development, and get the admin moving.
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Weeks 14–27
Second trimester
The big screening window — two tests with firm week ranges — plus the planning tasks that are easiest to do while you feel good.
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Week 28 to birth
Third trimester
Vaccines with strict windows, the GBS swab, movement awareness, and getting the practical pieces ready for delivery day.
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Why it matters
Pregnancy runs on week windows
Most of a pregnancy to-do list isn't "do this eventually" — it's do this in a specific window. The anatomy scan reads best at 18–22 weeks. The glucose screen is designed for 24–28 weeks. Tdap works by transferring your antibodies to the baby, which is why it's timed to 27–36 weeks. The group B strep swab at 36–37 weeks is deliberately close to delivery so the result still reflects labor day. Miss a window and some tests can't simply be done later — the moment has a biology to it.
That's the point of anchoring the list to your dates. This tool uses ACOG's standard dating math — a due date is 280 days from the last menstrual period, adjusted for your cycle length, and each gestational week follows from that anchor — to convert every window into calendar dates you can put in a phone. If you entered a provider-confirmed due date (ideally set by a first-trimester ultrasound, the most accurate method), your windows here will match the ones your clinic is tracking.
What this deliberately is not: a birth-plan builder, a baby registry, or a hospital-bag packing list. Those live on this list as exactly one line, because they're personal projects, not clinical deadlines — and because the internet already over-serves them while under-serving the windows that actually close.
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Where this comes from
The milestones and week windows follow ACOG's routine prenatal-care guidance (first visit, dating ultrasound, anatomy scan at 18–22 weeks, glucose screening at 24–28 weeks, group B strep at 36–37 weeks), the CDC's maternal-vaccination windows (Tdap at 27–36 weeks; seasonal RSV at 32–36 weeks) and pregnancy checklists, and NHTSA's car-seat guidance. The date math is ACOG's 280-day method. We apply their schedules — we don't invent our own.
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Data & references
- ACOG: Routine Tests During Pregnancy (FAQ)https://www.acog.org/womens-health/faqs/routine-tests-during-pregnancy
- ACOG: Methods for Estimating the Due Date (Committee Opinion 700)https://www.acog.org/clinical/clinical-guidance/committee-opinion/articles/2017/05/methods-for-estimating-the-due-date
- CDC: Vaccines During Pregnancyhttps://www.cdc.gov/vaccines-pregnancy/index.html
- ACOG: Group B Strep and Pregnancy (FAQ)https://www.acog.org/womens-health/faqs/group-b-strep-and-pregnancy
- NHTSA: Car Seats and Booster Seatshttps://www.nhtsa.gov/equipment/car-seats-and-booster-seats
EasySTD is an information and comparison directory, not a healthcare provider. This checklist is general information based on published ACOG, CDC, and NHTSA guidance: it is not medical advice, a diagnosis, or a care plan, and it does not create a doctor-patient relationship. Your provider tailors the schedule to you — especially if your pregnancy is high-risk or develops complications.
Good to Know
Pregnancy checklist: frequently asked questions
When to book the first visit, which vaccines have windows, the tests you shouldn't miss, kick counts, and the symptoms that mean call now.
When should I schedule my first prenatal visit?
Call your provider as soon as you have a positive test. Most practices book the first full prenatal visit for around 8 to 10 weeks of pregnancy, and calendars genuinely fill up — calling at 5 weeks to be seen at 8 is normal, not eager. That first visit is the longest of the pregnancy: medical history, an exam, dating the pregnancy (often with an ultrasound), baseline bloodwork, and a conversation about which screening tests you want. If you have a chronic condition, take daily medication, or had complications in a prior pregnancy, say so when you call — you may be seen earlier.
Which vaccines are recommended during pregnancy, and when?
Four are named here — two with specific week windows. Tdap (whooping cough) is recommended in every pregnancy at 27–36 weeks — earlier in that window is preferred — so your antibodies transfer and protect the newborn before their own shots begin. The maternal RSV vaccine is given at 32–36 weeks, but only during RSV season (roughly September through January in most of the US); if your window falls outside the season, your baby can receive the RSV antibody nirsevimab after birth instead. The flu vaccine is recommended at any point in pregnancy. COVID-19 vaccination shifted in 2025 to a shared decision with your clinician (the CDC no longer lists it as a routine recommendation, while ACOG still recommends it), so it's a conversation to have at a visit. Your provider fits all of these to your dates and health history.
What are the big test milestones I shouldn't miss?
Five have real windows. A first-trimester dating ultrasound sets the due date every other window depends on. NIPT (cell-free DNA screening) can be drawn any time from 10 weeks, and carrier screening whenever you choose. The anatomy scan — the detailed look at organs and growth — runs at 18–22 weeks. The glucose screen for gestational diabetes runs at 24–28 weeks. And the group B strep swab happens at 36–37 weeks. This tool turns each window into your actual calendar dates; your provider's schedule is the version of record, and complications can change both the tests and the timing.
When do I start counting kicks, and what counts as a problem?
From 28 weeks, start paying deliberate attention to your baby's movement every day. There's no single magic number — the useful signal is your baby's own pattern. Many providers suggest a daily kick count: pick a time your baby is usually active, and note how long it takes to feel 10 movements. What matters is change: if movement is noticeably reduced compared to what's normal for your baby, call your provider the same day. Don't wait until tomorrow, don't rely on a home doppler, and don't talk yourself out of it — decreased movement is one of the few signs that always earns a same-day check.
Which symptoms mean I should call my provider right away?
Call immediately — at any hour, in any trimester — for vaginal bleeding, a gush or steady leak of fluid, severe belly pain that doesn't go away, severe headache or vision changes (spots, flashing lights), a fever, extreme swelling of your face or hands, significantly decreased movement after 28 weeks, or regular painful contractions before 37 weeks. Chest pain or trouble breathing means 911, and any thoughts of harming yourself are a call or text to 988 right now. These aren't save-it-for-the-next-visit items, and none of them can be sorted out by a checklist or a search engine. Every OB practice runs an after-hours line precisely for these calls, and calling about something that turns out to be nothing is the system working as designed. If you can't reach anyone and symptoms are severe, go to labor and delivery or call 911.
Is what I enter here private?
Yes. This tool runs entirely in your browser: the dates you enter and the boxes you tick are processed on your own device and are never sent to a server, stored, or shared — close the tab and everything is gone. We treat reproductive health data as sensitive by default, especially post-Dobbs, which is exactly why this checklist has no accounts, no tracking of your answers, and no saved state. It's general educational information based on ACOG, CDC, and NHTSA guidance — not medical advice, and not a substitute for your provider's plan.
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