Your health during pregnancy is important for both you and your baby.
Choose a healthy diet
- Maintain a healthy weight. (web page)
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. (PDF)
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.