Provider resources - before pregnancy

Resources and materials for your patients before pregnancy.

Preconception health is the health status of women, men and couples during preconception periods.

Preconception care for women can improve a woman’s health and the health of her future children.

• Guideline for Preconception and Interconception Care.

• Guideline for Contraception.

  • Wall chart | wall chart in Spanish.

Preconception care for men offers an opportunity for disease prevention and health promotion.

A Reproductive Life Plan is a set of personal goals about having (or not having) children, including action steps around how to achieve those goals. Colorado completed an evaluation of a tool developed to help women identify those goals.

• Formative Evaluation of a Reproductive Life Plan Tool.

The data briefs below discuss the health status of women in Colorado prior to pregnancy.

• Health Watch 78 - How Healthy Are Colorado Women of Reproductive Age? An Evaluation of Preconception Risk and Protective Factors, February 2011.

• Health Watch 75 - Smoking Before, During and After Pregnancy: Colorado Trends, May 2010.

• Health Watch 69 - The Association of Prepregnancy Body Mass Index and Adverse Maternal and Perinatal Outcomes, February 2009.

A variety of initiatives to address the health status of women and men before a pregnancy are occurring around the U.S. The reports below summarize information collected on some of those initiatives through interviews conducted with other states in 2011.

• Nationwide Initiatives on Preconception Health.

• Nationwide Initiatives - Individual States Summary.

Preconception Health Training

• Before and Beyond Preconception Training Modules.

• Guideline for Preconception and Interconception Care - Webinar aired January 2011.

• How Healthy Are CO Women of Reproductive Age? - Webinar aired March 2011.