Smart Baby Programme
KeyHealth’s Smart Baby Programme offers great maternity benefits, support, and general advice on health and wellness for the expecting mother.
Expecting a baby is one of the most exciting and special times in any family’s life. KeyHealth’s Smart Baby Programme is there to make this experience even more special by offering great maternity benefits, support, general advice on health and wellness, and simply making this journey as enjoyable as possible for the parents-to-be.
Important details
Moms-to-be must register as soon as the pregnancy is confirmed by calling 0860671060.
Programme Benefits
- The New Baby & Childcare Handbook by Marina Petropulos to assist first-time mothers.
- Access to Netcare 911’s 24-hour Health-on-line services on 082 911 for medical advice and information.
- R1 570 that can be used by the expecting mother for medical expenses or to get small items for the baby during her term of pregnancy.
- 12 antenatal visits (GP, gynaecologist and midwife) and dipstick urine tests as well as 2 pregnancy ultrasounds (scans).
- R2 650 for antenatal vitamins per pregnancy.
- R2 650 for antenatal classes for the first pregnancy.
- 2 specialist visits in baby’s 1st year of membership and 1 visit in the 2nd year.
- Additional vaccine: RSV (Pfizer’s Abrysvo) 1 per pregnancy from week 27 of gestation but no later than 30 days before expected date of delivery.
- Information about baby’s first year (e.g. vaccinations).
Additional screening tests
- Haemoglobin (Hb) level at the first antenatal visit then repeated between 28–32 weeks and 36 weeks of gestation.
- Bacteriuria at the first visit or at 12–16 weeks of gestation.
- Gestational diabetes, screened at the first antenatal visit and again at 28 weeks of gestation (if the initial screening was negative), for mothers who do not have pre-gestational diabetes (i.e. already known to be diabetic).
- Rh incompatibility test first pregnancy between 24–28 weeks.
- Syphilis test at the first antenatal visit.
- Chlamydia test at the first antenatal visit.
- Hepatitis B test in the first trimester.