Your health during pregnancy
Your health during pregnancy is important for both you and your baby.
Maintain a healthy weight. (web page)
Depression is the most common complication of pregnancy. Pregnancy-related depression is depression that occurs during pregnancy or after giving birth, including after a pregnancy loss.
- Pregnancy-related depression. (webpage)
Smoking
- Quit smoking for baby and you. (webpage)
- Avoid secondhand smoke.
Alcohol and drug use
- Tough as a Mother provides substance use support.
- Tough as a Mother. (Tough as a Mother website)
- Don't use drugs.
- Call 1-800-CHILDREN for help quitting.
- Don’t use marijuana. (PDF)
- Don't consume alcohol.
Travel safety
The risks of travel may change depending on how far along you are in pregnancy.
- Travel During Pregnancy. (ACOG website)
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.
- Gestational diabetes. (webpage)