Preconception Care

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Taking care of your baby starts before conception. In order to increase your chances of having a trouble-free pregnancy, you need to start thinking about living a healthy lifestyle. Abstaining from smoking and drinking alcohol are just the beginning. Maintaining good nutrition is critical, and you should talk to you doctor about what your healthy weight should be. Hide

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Cigarettes and Pregnancy

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Smoking during pregnancy will harm your fetus's health. Watch this video for details on cigarettes and pregnancy.

Expert: Marsha Silberstein, M.D.

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Drinking Before You Knew

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If you were drinking before you knew you were pregnant, you may be concerned about your fetus's health. Learn more about the effect alcohol can have on your fetus.

Expert: Marsha Silberstein, M.D.

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How STDs Can Affect Your Baby

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STDs can have many of the same consequences for pregnant women as women who are not pregnant.

Expert: CDC

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Improving Preconception Health: Consumer Awareness

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Increase public awareness of the importance of preconception health behaviors and preconception care services by using information and tools appropriate across various ages; li...

Expert: CDC

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Improving Preconception Health: Individual Responsibility

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Each woman, man, and couple should be encouraged to have a reproductive life plan.

Expert: CDC

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Improving Preconception Health: Interconception Care

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Use the interconception period to provide additional intensive interventions to women who have had a previous pregnancy that ended in an adverse outcome.

Expert: CDC

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Improving Preconception Health: Interventions for Identified Risks

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Timely preconception interventions for certain conditions can substantially improve maternal health and birth outcomes.

Expert: CDC

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Improving Preconception Health: Preventive Visits

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As a part of primary care visits, provide risk assessment and educational and health promotion counseling to all women of childbearing age to reduce reproductive risks and impr...

Expert: CDC