It's Your Choice. Take Control. Your Health Matters!
For more information about your health before and during pregnancy visit the following websites:
Before & During Pregnancy
Many women in Oklahoma are not yet connecting their own health with of their families. Only 13.5% of women in Oklahoma received any type of counseling or advice to prepare for becoming pregnant (PRAMS Gram Winter 2008).
Pregnancy should not be considered only a 9 month journey but as a year long journey.
There are things that women and their doctors can do before and during pregnancy to help prevent birth defects and other problems.
The lifestyle and health practices you are making today can directly impact the success or failure you experience when trying to conceive tomorrow.
Every woman should be thinking about her health whether or not she is planning pregnancy. One reason is that about half of all pregnancies are not planned. Unplanned pregnancies are at greater risk of
preterm birth
and
low-birth-weight
babies.
Oklahoma Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies
The Voice of Oklahoma Mothers, Babies and their Families