Healthy Pregnancy Guide

Your Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy

So the stick turned pink. After screaming with joy (out loud or simply in your mind), running to share the news with your partner, checking your stomach in the mirror to see if anything shows yet and calling your best friend, it hits you. You're pregnant. You're about to experience the most life-changing events a woman can experience. Now what? No worries! This guide contains everything you need to get through the next year.

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  Prenatal Care: Get help choosing your prenatal care team and understanding medical tests
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  First Trimester Issues: How are you feeling? Learn what you can do about nausea and fatigue
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  Eating Healthy and Exercising: Get the skinny on how to stay healthy during your pregnancy
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  Common Physical Changes: What to expect and what you can do about it
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  Medications During Pregnancy: Find out what's safe and what's not for you and your baby
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  Labor and Delivery: From preparation to pain management, get everything you need to know
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  Choosing a Day Care Provider: Are you prepared? Get a list of must-haves and to-dos
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  Taking Care of Your Newborn: Tips for comforting, feeding and bathing your baby
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  Breastfeeding Your Newborn: Learn how to overcome challenges and improve your chances of success
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  Taking Care of You: Advice for getting rest and healing after childbirth

©2018. National Women's Health Resource Center, Inc. All rights reserved. All content provided in this guide is for information purposes only. Any information herein relating to specific medical conditions, preventive care and/or healthy lifestyles does not suggest individual diagnosis or treatment and is not a substitute for medical attention.