gpal stands for recording a woman’s fertility history.
The gpal is not a gynecological examination, but a way of recording a woman’s reproductive history, more commonly used when pregnant women create a maternal health booklet or record their reproductive history. The number of pregnancies is denoted by g, the number of p births by p, the number of abortions or miscarriages by a, and the number of surviving children by l.
Women’s reproductive history is a more important part of women’s medical history records, women in the establishment of maternal health handbook, in addition to recording the reproductive history, but also need to carry out some routine examination, and draw on the results of the routine examination recorded in the maternity handbook, pregnant women during pregnancy should be good at all the pregnancy examination and recorded until the fetus is successfully delivered.