Your health during pregnancy

Choose a healthy diet

• Maintain a healthy weight.

• Eat healthy and stay active.

Make healthy lifestyle choices

• Quit smoking for you and your baby. Avoid secondhand smoke.

• Don't consume alcohol.

• Don't use drugs. Call 1-800-CHILDREN for help quitting.

  • Don’t use marijuana.

Get mentally healthy

• Depression is the most common complication of pregnancy. Get help handling pregnancy-related depression.

Talk to your doctor

• If you have gestational diabetes during pregnancy, you and your child are at a higher risk for getting diabetes later in life. Take action now to prevent diabetes.

• If you are planning to travel while pregnant.

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