Maternal Anxiety & Depression
Substance Abuse During Pregnancy
Women's Health Matters!
The health and well being of a woman, especially her weight prior to conception, greatly impacts her pregnancy and ultimately the health of her infant. Experts agree that maternal and infant outcomes improve when women are healthy prior to pregnancy, old enough to be ready to parent, receive high quality
prenatal care and breast feed their children.
What We Know :
Only
13.5%
of new mothers in Oklahoma received any type of counseling or advice to prepare for becoming pregnant.
In Oklahoma women who did not receive any type of preconception counseling were more likely to smoke and less likely to take a multivitamin in the months prior to pregnancy.
In Oklahoma women who did not receive any type of preconception counseling were more likely to smoke and less likely to take a multivitamin in the months prior to pregnancy.
Access to and utilization of prenatal care is not enough when trying to impact maternal and infant outcomes.
Oklahoma continues to rank above the national average in Infant Mortality .
In Oklahoma one in four new mothers reported symptoms of maternal depression postpartum.
In Oklahoma mothers who smoke during pregnancy were twice as likely to have low birth weight babies as mothers who did not smoke.
In Oklahoma women who did not receive any type of preconception counseling were more likely to smoke and less likely to take a multivitamin in the months prior to pregnancy.
In Oklahoma women who did not receive any type of preconception counseling were more likely to smoke and less likely to take a multivitamin in the months prior to pregnancy.
Access to and utilization of prenatal care is not enough when trying to impact maternal and infant outcomes.
Oklahoma continues to rank above the national average in Infant Mortality .
In Oklahoma one in four new mothers reported symptoms of maternal depression postpartum.
In Oklahoma mothers who smoke during pregnancy were twice as likely to have low birth weight babies as mothers who did not smoke.
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