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This web page highlights CDC's partnership with state health departments and universities for the purpose of identifying FAS cases and developing prevention programs.... Details >
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities
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This booklet provides ideas and tips for pregnant women to help them improve eating plan and become more physically active before, during, and after their pregnancy.... Details >
Weight-Control Information Network, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
This page presents questions about folic acid before and during pregnancy. It is a synthetic vitamin from the family of the B vitamin that can be found in fortified foods and in supplemental vitamins ... Details >
foodborne illness is a serious health risk for pregnant women and their unborn babies. You'll find accurate, easy-to-understand information about foodborne illness for mom's to be.... Details >
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Although many pregnant women with high blood pressure have healthy babies without serious problems, high blood pressure can be dangerous for both the mother and the fetus. Preeclampsia is also a facto... Details >
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
This fact sheet from the Food Safety and Inspection Service answers questions pregnant women may have about listeriosis and what causes it, and its symptoms, prevention, and treatment.... Details >
Food Safety and Inspection Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
When you are pregnant or breastfeeding, you have special nutritional needs. This section of MyPyramid.gov is designed just for you. It has advice you need to help you and your baby stay healthy.... Details >
Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Use this tool to calculate the days when you are most likely to get pregnant.... Details >
Office on Women's Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Service
The Pregnancy & Newborn Health Education Center is an online guide to a healthy pregnancy developed by the March of Dimes, features information on planning a pregnancy and on prenatal and postnatal ca... Details >