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Your guide to a healthy pregnancy

Nov 09, 2001

Free materials

Pregnant? Planning a pregnancy? The March of Dimes has free information for you.

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Are you ready? A guide to planning a healthy, happy pregnancy
mama magazine: Your guide to a healthy pregnancy
Spanish version: mama magazine

Are you ready? A guide to planning a healthy, happy pregnancy
If you're planning a pregnancy, Are You Ready? is for you. It contains, in handy booklet form, much of the information presented in the Are You Ready? section of this Web site.

Helps parents-to-be ask and answer tough questions: Are you ready physically to have a baby? Are you ready emotionally? Are you ready financially?


Includes advice on getting pregnant, choosing a health care provider, and breaking unhealthy habits.


Features a worksheet for keeping track of important information, such as dates and phone numbers.
To request a free copy of Are You Ready?, please click here to go to the order form.

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mama magazine: Your guide to a healthy pregnancy
The award-winning magazine for pregnant women from the March of Dimes. Full of practical and fun information for parents-to-be. Many of the articles on this Web site originally appeared in mama magazine.

The current issue features:

How to choose a car seat that will protect your baby
A step-by-step picture guide to breastfeeding
An interview about parenthood with TV personalities Al Roker and Deborah Roberts
Postpartum depression: What it is and what to do
Preparing for parenthood
To request a free copy of mama magazine, please click here to go to the order form.

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Spanish version: mama magazine
Our first issue of mam?¡ in Spanish contains articles on topics of special concern to Hispanic women such as:

The importance of folic acid
Breastfeeding
Communicating with your health care provider
Exercise and pregnancy
Nutrition for a healthy baby
It also includes an 8-page fold out of the best-selling March of Dimes pamphlet Teresa presencia el milagro de la vida (How Your Baby Grows).

mam?¡ is not a direct translation of mama. It was created in Spanish to meet the specific needs of Hispanic women.

To request a free copy of mam?¡ magazine, please click here to go to the order form.

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