About MotherToBaby MotherToBaby, a service of the non-profit Organization of Teratology Information Specialists (OTIS), is the nation’s leading authority and most trusted source of evidence-based information on the benefit or risk of medications and other exposures during pregnancy and while breastfeeding. We specialize in answering questions about the benefit/risk of exposures, such as medications, vaccines, chemicals, herbal products, substances of abuse, maternal health conditions and much …
Search Results for: medications during pregnancy and breastfeeding
Page: Refer a Patient
Helping You Educate Your Pregnant and Breastfeeding Patients MotherToBaby welcomes the opportunity to partner with you on educating your patients about exposures during pregnancy and breastfeeding. We’d also love to partner with you on improving the quality of medication safety information by enrolling your patients in our observational research studies. Please consider referring your patients to our exposure information service and/or our pregnancy studies research program. We Provide …
Page: Fact Sheets
Answers to Your Frequently Asked Questions about Pregnancy & Breastfeeding Exposures Our Fact Sheets answer frequently asked questions about many common exposures during pregnancy and breastfeeding, including medications, recreational substances, cosmetic treatments, health conditions, infections, vaccines, and more. Available in English and Spanish, our content summarizes available scientific information on whether people and their developing babies are at risk because of an exposure in …
Baby Blog: For Women With MS: Making Decisions About Pregnancy, Breastfeeding & More
By Elizabeth Salas, MPH, Teratology Information Specialist, MotherToBaby California If you have Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and are currently pregnant, breastfeeding, or planning a pregnancy, where do you go when you have questions about MS or MS treatments? In this day and age, the first place you might go is the Internet. With no shortage of information at our fingertips, it may seem the answers to all of our questions are just a web search away. But when it comes to chronic conditions and …
Page: MotherToBaby Pregnancy Studies
Ongoing Studies: Providing Better Information on Medication Safety in Pregnancy MotherToBaby Pregnancy Studies provide much-needed information on medication and vaccine safety in pregnancy. Our studies are observational; people who are pregnant are not asked to take any medications or change their current treatments. We simply follow people who are pregnant who have – and who have not – taken a medication of interest until they deliver their baby, and then follow their babies for a period of …