Healthy Pregnancy Links
Congratulations! You’re pregnant!
Pregnancy can be a very exciting road. You may have many questions about how to have the healthiest baby possible. Small changes you make before and during pregnancy can have a real benefit to the health of your baby.
There are many places to turn for pregnancy information. The Porcupine Health Unit offers free healthy pregnancy books called “Let’s Grow A Healthy Baby”. You can pick up a copy at your health care provider’s office or call your local office to have one sent to you.
Useful sites
Health Before Pregnancy Information:
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Health Before Pregnancy : Designed by the Best Start Resource Centre, this website is dedicated to help women and men plan a pregnancy.
General Pregnancy Information:
- Best Start: Has resources to enhance the health of expectant and new parents, newborns and young children.
- The Public Health Agency of Canada Healthy Pregnancy Site: One-stop-shop for information on nutrition, tobacco, alcohol, physical activity, oral health, folic acid and mental health by providing women with reliable sources, trustworthy information and easy steps to follow towards a healthy pregnancy.
- Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists: Useful resources on pregnancy, labour and delivery, developed by the medical experts at the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada.
- Women’s Health Matters Pregnancy Health Centre: This centre provides information about what to expect during the months of pregnancy, how to stay healthy during pregnancy and also provides strategies for childbirth and how to care for a newborn.
- Lamaze: Provides information on childbirth and other pregnancy issues.
- March of Dimes Pregnancy and Newborn Health Education Centre: Information for couples on planning a pregnancy and preparing for parenthood, including important information about prenatal nutrition.
- Une nouvelle vie / A New Life: Includes eight learning modules intended for pregnant woman, their partners and families; iis useful for people working and accompanying pregnant women; proposes an original and innovative way to obtain information about physical and emotional transformations that occur during pregnancy, childbirth and the baby’s first few weeks of life; and contains current and highly reliable information.
Smoking and Pregnancy Information:
- Pregnets Website: Provides information to help pregnant and postpartum women quit and stay smoke-free using a woman centred model of care.
Drug and Alcohol Use During Pregnancy:
- Alcohol Free Pregnancy: The Best Start Resource Centre launched this website as part of a provincial campaign to raise awareness of the risks associated with alcohol consumption during pregnancy.
- The Public Health Agency of Canada : Provides general information on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders and answers frequently asked questions about the condition.
- Motherisk (Hospital for Sick Children): Provides information to pregnant or lactating patients regarding the risks associated with drug, chemical, infection, disease and radiation exposure(s) during pregnancy.
Nutrition:
- Canadian Prenatal Nutrition Program: Provides information about the CPNP program as well as provides related publications and a directory of all CPNP sites across the country.
- Motherisk Nausea and Vomiting in Pregnancy Hotline: Provides information about several initiatives by Motherisk regarding nausea and vomiting in pregnancy, including links to an online forum to ask qualified staff questions.
Pregnancy and HIV:
- Women, Pregnancy and HIV: Fact sheet provides information on HIV testing during pregnancy.
Multiple Births:
- Multiple Births / Naissances multiples Canada: Includes statistics, tips and a link to an electronic newsletter for multiple-birth individuals and their families.
Last reviewed: February 25, 2011