Your health during pregnancy

Choose a healthy diet

• Maintain a healthy weight. (web page)

Make healthy lifestyle choices

• Learn more about quitting smoking for you and your baby. 
  • Quit smoking for baby and you. (webpage)
    • 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. 
  • Pregnancy-related depression is depression that occurs during pregnancy or after giving birth, including after a pregnancy loss. 
    • Pregnancy-related depression. (webpage)

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.
  • Gestational diabetes. (CDC website)
  • Prevent diabetes. (NIH website)
• If you are planning to travel while pregnant.
  • Travel During Pregnancy. (ACOG website)

Provider Resources

Resources and materials for your patients during pregnancy.

• Provider resources: during pregnancy. (webpage)