Last year I was pregnant with my first child. At the same time, I was going through the immigration process to apply for permanent residency in the United States. I wasn’t aware of the many things that you must do to get your health records cleared by immigration and how that process can be a great source of anxiety during pregnancy. If you are an immigrant, you may not have health insurance or cannot understand the language, which can be another challenge. In order to have sound and …
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Baby Blog: Not Too Much, Not Too Little: Finding the Goldilocks of Vitamins and Minerals
Ever wonder if you’re getting the right amount of vitamins and minerals during pregnancy or breastfeeding? Like Goldilocks, you don’t want too little or too much — you want just right. Even though it took Goldilocks multiple tries to find the right size chair and the right bowl of porridge, it doesn’t have to take you that long to find the right amount of vitamins and minerals for you! Everyone has a 3% chance of developing a birth defect during pregnancy. Getting the right amount of vitamins …
Baby Blog: Measles is Back in the News. Here’s What Pregnant Women Should Know.
By MotherToBaby and experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) At 16 weeks pregnant, Maria is busy planning a summer trip for her family. But lately, every time she opens her phone, she sees another headline about measles outbreaks. It makes her pause and wonder: What does this mean for me and my baby? What is measles, and why are people worried about it? Measles is a highly contagious virus that spreads through the air when someone who is sick with measles …
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Helping Your Pregnant and Breastfeeding Clients Make Informed Decisions For many women, doulas play an important role in the pregnancy and postpartum journey. As you support your clients during this time of enormous change in their lives, you’re probably fielding a lot of questions from them. When those questions are about how pregnancy and/or breastfeeding could be impacted by exposures in your client’s …
