Arizona is HOT, especially in the summer. I knew this when I moved to Tucson almost a decade ago. Since then, I have had two pregnancies while living in Arizona. I was lucky not to have to spend the last weeks of pregnancy and first weeks with my newborn in the summer heat. Of course, Arizona is not the only place experiencing hot weather. 2023 was the planet’s warmest year on record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Temperature records have already been …
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Baby Blog: Empowering Education and Support for Breastfeeding Women Living in Rural Communities
For breastfeeding people living in rural areas, it is often difficult to find appropriate breastfeeding and lactation resources as they can be few and far between. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), infants in rural areas are less likely to ever breastfeed than infants living in urban areas. Emma, a new mother to a baby boy, lives in a rural area where the nearest town with a healthcare facility is over an hour away. Even by phone, it was difficult to reach her …
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Our Commitment and Approach to Maintaining an Accessible Website At the Organization of Teratology Information Specialists (OTIS), we strive to ensure that our MotherToBaby services and resources are accessible to people with disabilities. We have made changes to our website, MotherToBaby.org, to ensure it is easier to use and more accessible for people with disabilities, with the strong belief that every person has the right to live with dignity, equality, comfort and …
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Answers to Your Most Frequently Asked Questions. MotherToBaby offers unparalleled resources for health professionals, including evidence-based patient education materials, no-cost teratogen information services, and convenient patient referrals into our observational pregnancy studies. Here are some of the questions health providers most frequently ask about us. …
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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 …
