Your pregnancy
Experts will provide the best care and advice when you find out you're expecting.
Akron Children’s collaborates with delivery hospitals to give you and your baby the best possible care – even before baby’s arrival. Click through our pregnancy resources for information about understanding the stages of pregnancy and navigating medical care plus insights into high-risk pregnancies and their treatments.
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- A guide for first-time parents
- A week-by-week pregnancy calendar
- Air travel during pregnancy
- Alcohol use during pregnancy
- Are vaccines safe during pregnancy?
- Are you in labor?
- Avoiding lead exposure during pregnancy
- Birth plans
- Bringing your baby home
- Can I have a vaginal birth if I had a previous C-section?
- Cesarean sections (C-sections)
- Coffee and caffeine use during pregnancy
- Cord blood banking
- COVID-19: pregnancy FAQs
- Dealing with pain during childbirth
- Dealing with swollen ankles during pregnancy
- Drinking tap water during pregnancy
- Eating during pregnancy
- Ectopic pregnancy
- Epidurals
- Exercising during pregnancy
- Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
- Folic acid and pregnancy
- Food safety during pregnancy
- Gestational diabetes
- Getting x-rays during pregnancy
- Group B strep and pregnancy
- Healthcare providers: midwives
- High-impact exercising during pregnancy
- How can I deal with heartburn during pregnancy?
- I'm pregnant. How can I avoid having my baby early?
- Inducing labor
- Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR)
- Is it normal to feel sad after having a baby?
- Is it safe to clean a cat's litter box during pregnancy?
- Medical care during pregnancy
- Miscarriages
- Natural childbirth
- Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS)
- Neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS)
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy precautions
- Pregnancy slideshow (baby)
- Pregnancy slideshow (mom & baby)
- Pregnant or breastfeeding? Nutrients you need
- Preparing for multiple births
- Preventing overheating during pregnancy
- Recovering from delivery
- Recreational drugs and pregnancy
- Rh incompatibility during pregnancy
- Severe morning sickness (hyperemesis gravidarum)
- Sex during pregnancy
- Sleeping during pregnancy
- Smoking and pregnancy
- Staying healthy during pregnancy
- Sunless and self-tanning during pregnancy
- Taking care of your mental health during pregnancy
- Treatments to prevent premature birth
- Using artificial sweeteners during pregnancy
- Using bug killers and repellents during pregnancy
- Using hair dyes and color during pregnancy
- Using household chemicals during pregnancy
- Using medicines during pregnancy
- Using teeth whiteners during pregnancy
- What are kegel exercises?
- What can help with leg cramps during pregnancy?
- What can I do to relieve my pregnancy backaches?
- What if my baby isn't born by my due date?
- What is prenatal care before pregnancy?
- What's a "high-risk" pregnancy?
- When do pregnant women need progesterone shots?
- When your baby's born premature
- Where should I have my baby?
- Why are babies born early?
- Why are pregnant women told to avoid feta cheese?
- Why do many pregnant women pull ligaments, muscles, and joints?
- Why do some pregnant women get varicose veins?
- Why do some women feel short of breath during pregnancy?
- Getting an ultrasound
- Prenatal test: amniocentesis
- Prenatal test: chorionic villus sampling (cvs)
- Prenatal test: contraction stress test
- Prenatal test: first trimester screening
- Prenatal test: glucose screening
- Prenatal test: multiple marker test
- Prenatal test: nonstress test
- Prenatal test: percutaneous umbilical blood sampling (pubs)
- Prenatal test: ultrasound
- Prenatal tests: FAQs
- Prenatal tests: first trimester
- Prenatal tests: second trimester
- Prenatal tests: third trimester
- Epidurals
- Cesarean sections (c-sections)
- Inducing labor
- Fetal echocardiogram
- Fetal magnetic resonance imaging (fetal MRI)
- Genetic counseling
- Genetic testing
- What is the apgar score?
- Apnea of prematurity
- Congenital cataracts
- Congenital hypothyroidism
- Fetal abdominal cyst
- Fetal lung mass
- Hernias
- If your baby has a birth defect
- Intraventricular hemorrhage in newborns
- Jaundice in newborns
- Meconium aspiration syndrome (MAS)
- Necrotizing enterocolitis
- Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS)
- Neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS)
- Newborn brachial plexus injuries
- Omphalocele
- Orofacial clefts
- Penile torsion
- Pyloric stenosis
- Respiratory distress syndrome
- Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP)
- Rh incompatibility during pregnancy
- Spina bifida occulta
- Submucous cleft palate
- Torticollis in infants
- Transient tachypnea of the newborn (TTN)
- Umbilical hernias
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