Antenatal Booking Visit: The Language of Your First Midwife Appointment for OET Speaking

It's Sophie's first pregnancy, and her first booking visit — and she's just found out the appointment doesn't include a scan at all. Midwife Miguel Santos is about to explain exactly what does happen instead.
Nadia and Tom cover ten essential antenatal booking terms: antenatal (prenatal), booking visit, due date (EDD), last menstrual period (LMP), folic acid, screening test, booking bloods, midwife, ultrasound scan, and birth plan. Each term is defined and demonstrated in a realistic, two-way booking appointment — taking an obstetric history, explaining booking bloods and screening tests, and covering early-pregnancy lifestyle advice — followed by a slower repeat and a short quiz.
Maternity vocabulary is one of the biggest gaps in medical English learning and one of the highest-anxiety OET Speaking role-play scenarios, making this a genuinely high-value episode for OET candidates and for IELTS healthcare communication tasks.
📄 Free transcript PDF (vocabulary table, full script, language notes): medicalvoices.health/en/episodes/16
▶️ Watch on YouTube. (youtu.be/bdGE8oAGTrU) Episode 16 of Medical Voices.
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