Chronic health conditions, prescription medicines and pregnancy
If you’re thinking about starting a family and you take medicine to manage a chronic health condition, you may have questions about it. A chronic heal ...
What you need to know about pain medication and pregnancy
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than 191 million opioid prescriptions were American patients in 2017. Prescrip ...
Pregnancy Exposure Registries Help Moms-To-Be Share Their Experiences with Medicines
Are you pregnant and taking medicines? FDA encourages women like you to participate in pregnancy exposure registry studies that track the outcomes of ...
“Spread Prevention, Not the Infection” during Pregnancy: Syphilis
This year the theme of National Birth Defects Prevention Month is Prevent to Protect. This week we will be posting a series of guest posts from Mothe ...
Why is prenatal care so important?
Getting early and regular prenatal care can help you have a healthy and full-term pregnancy. However, a recent report shows that the preterm birth rat ...