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Most healthy women from age 35 into their 40s have healthy pregnancies. Good prenatal care and healthy habits can help you reduce certain risks. This page contains tips on what a woman can do to ensur... Details >

March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation  

African American, American Indian, and Puerto Rican infants have higher death rates than white infants. ... Details >

Office of Minority Health (CDC)

This news release looks at a 2004 consumer advisory issued on seafood consumption by the Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency that remains current. The advisory’s recom... Details >

U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Also available in: Spanish 

This fact sheet presents a general overview of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), described as a group of physical and mental birth defects caused by a woman drinking heavily during pregnancy.... Details >

National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities

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

Planned Parenthood affiliated health centers nationwide provide high quality, affordable reproductive health care and sexual health information to nearly five million women, men and teens and operate ... Details >

Planned Parenthood Federation of America  

Search this web site to locate a Lamaze certified childbirth educator and class in your area.... Details >

Lamaze International  

You can search this database of nearly 900 nurse-midwifery practices for a nurse-midwife in your geographic area. You may also link from this site to the ACNM chapter chairperson for your local area ... Details >

American College of Nurse-Midwives  

Also available in: Spanish 

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

Pregnant women who have low blood levels of the vitamin folate are more likely to have early miscarriages than are pregnant women who have adequate folate levels.... Details >

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health