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Getting pregnant
- How to get pregnant
- Good Health Before Pregnancy
- Ovulation signs: When is conception most likely?
- Sperm: How long do they live after ejaculation?
- Abortion: Does it affect subsequent pregnancies?
- Female fertility: Why lifestyle choices count
- Baby’s sex: Can parents choose?
- Female infertility
- Birth control pill FAQ: Benefits, risks and choices
- Pregnancy spacing: What’s best?
- Video: Ovulation
Pregnancy week by week
- Pregnancy due date calculator
- Working during pregnancy: Do’s and don’ts
- Nutrition during pregnancy
- Pregnancy nutrition: Healthy-eating basics
- Pregnancy nutrition: Foods to avoid during pregnancy
- Pregnancy diet: Focus on these essential nutrients
- Does eating fish make children smarter?
- Guide to healthy eating of fish for women & children
- Diet & Nutrition: When you are pregnant or breastfeeding, you have special nutritional needs. ChooseMyPlate.gov provides daily food plans for pregnancy & breastfeeding to help you and your baby stay healthy.
- Pregnancy weight gain: What’s healthy?
- Prenatal vitamins: Give your baby the best start
- Prenatal testing: Your guide to common tests
- Prenatal testing: Is it right for you?
- Pregnancy and exercise: Baby, let’s move!
- Exercise during pregnancy: Is heart rate a concern?
- Prenatal yoga: What you need to know
- Sex during pregnancy: What’s OK, what’s not
- Twin pregnancy: What multiples mean for mom (ACOG; Mayo Clinic)
- Childbirth education: Get ready for labor and delivery
- Back pain during pregnancy: 7 tips for relief
- Pregnancy constipation: Are stool softeners safe?
- Vaccines during pregnancy: Are they safe?
- Flu shot in pregnancy: Is it safe?
- Leg cramps during pregnancy: Preventable?
- Breast-feeding while pregnant: Is it safe?
- Traveling during pregnancy
- Air travel during pregnancy: Is it safe?
- Baby brain: Does it exist?
- Pregnancy and hot tubs: What’s the risk?
- Aspirin during pregnancy: Is it safe?
- Headaches during pregnancy: What’s the best treatment?
- Allergy medications and pregnancy: What’s safe?
- X-ray during pregnancy: Is it safe?
- Antibiotics and pregnancy: What’s safe?
- Ankle swelling during pregnancy: Is it a concern?
- Hair dye and pregnancy: A concern?
- Skin changes during pregnancy: What to expect?
- Ultrasound in pregnancy: A cultural phenomenon?
- Pregnancy and flu: Had your flu shot yet?
- Slide show: Fetal ultrasound
- Video: Fetal ultrasound
- Group B Streptococcus and pregnancy
- Early preterm birth
- Morning sickness
- It is time to quit Smoking
- Diabetes and pregnancy
- Early Pregnancy Loss: Miscarriage or molar Pregnancy
- High Blood pressure during pregnancy
- Cord blood banking: What are the options?
Labor and Delivery: Postpartum Care
- How to tell when labor begins
- Signs of labor: Know what to expect
- Water breaking: Understand this sign of labor
- Rupture of membranes: Has your water broken?
- Episiotomy: When it’s needed, when it’s not
- Labor pain: Weigh your options for relief
- Managing labor pain: Trust your body
- Slide Show: Labor Positions
- Labor and delivery: Pain medications
- Video: The epidural block
- Massage: Get in touch with its many health benefits
- Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring During Labor
- Labor induction
- Cesarean birth
- Video: C-Section
- C-sections: Is there a limit?
- Vaginal birth after cesarean delivery: Deciding on a trial of labor after cesarean delivery
- VBAC: Insight from a Mayo Clinic specialist
- To VBAC or not to VBAC?
- Pre-term Labor (AGOC; Mayo Clinic)
- Postpartum depression
- Getting in shape after your baby is born
