News and Information on Pregnancy

Websites containing quality and reliable health information can provide women seeking pregnancy, pregnant women and mothers with valuable support and resources. You can follow the updates and news of these sites easily with RSS. This video describes how you can use RSS:



If you don't want to learn how to use RSS, PeRSSonalized Medicine, a free Webicina service, is created for you. Follow your favourite medical news, blogs, journals and social media sites in one click.



You can also insert the term "pregnancy" into the custom Pubmed feed box, and you will receive the latest peer-reviewed articles focusing on pregnancy automatically.

We collected the best sites focusing on pregnancy-related support and information below. Please let us know if you have suggestions.

About.com

• Description: "Sometimes seeing leads to a better understanding. Here are collections of various videos and blogs to help you better understand pregnancy, labor and breastfeeding."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

Click here to access a listing of all the photo galleries About.com has available on pregnancy. There is a section for different types of pictures from pregnancy pictures to ultrasound photos.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• Description: "If you're pregnant or planning to get pregnant, you probably have a lot of questions. This website will help you learn how to be healthy (before, during, and after pregnancy) and give your baby a healthy start to life."
• Quality: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (or CDC) is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

Healthline

• Description: "Your body is changing and your moods are volatile. You are pregnant. Are you ready? Learn about what's happening to you and your baby at the Pregnancy Learning Center. From preparing to get pregnant and preventing pregnancy, to knowing what to expect during pregnancy through delivery, the Learning Center offers a wealth of multimedia information to help guide you through this special time."
• Quality: Here is the medical board of the site.

Mayo Clinic

• Description: "Whatever your questions, understanding your pregnancy week by week can help you make good decisions throughout your pregnancy. Learn nutrition do's and don'ts, and get the basics on other healthy pregnancy issues — from exercise to back pain and sex. The more you know about your pregnancy week by week, the more manageable your pregnancy may seem."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

Medical News Today

• Description: "The latest Pregnancy News & Obstetrics News articles published daily. Includes news on preterm births, prenatal exposure to drugs, foods and toxins, fetal monitoring and complications during pregnancy, labor and child birth."
• Quality: The most comprehensive medical news site.

MedLine Plus

• Description: "MedlinePlus will direct you to information to help answer health questions. MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MedlinePlus and give easy access to medical journal articles. MedlinePlus also has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news."
• Quality: Courtesy of U.S. National Library of Medicine.

Patient UK

• Description: "Patient UK was first launched in 1997 by PiP (Patient Information Publications). It started as a directory of UK websites which provided information of health, disease and related issues."
• Quality: Content is created by medical professionals. See the editorial board here.

Perinatology.com

• Description: Excellent medication resources and other references about drugs in pregnancy and breastfeeding.
• Quality: Clear disclaimer

Pregnancy Today

• Description: "Disney Family was created to help parents with the most important job of their lives: raising their family in the best environment possible. We are committed to creating a nurturing, safe, and well-informed environment for guests and members to expand their parenting knowledge in a fun, entertaining way -- just what you'd expect from one of the most trusted names in family entertainment."
• Quality: Part of Disney Family.

Science Daily

• Description: "ScienceDaily is one of the Internet’s most popular science news web sites. Since starting in 1995, the award-winning site has earned the loyalty of students, researchers, healthcare professionals, government agencies, educators and the general public around the world. Now with more than 3 million monthly visitors, ScienceDaily generates nearly 15 million page views a month and is steadily growing in its global audience."
• Quality: Click here to see the editorial board and the awards

Topix

• Description: News on Pregnancy continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
• Quality: "A Top 10 online newspaper destination (comScore, March 2008), the site links news from 50,000 sources to 360,000 lively user-generated forums." Click here for more information.

WebMD

• Description:
• Description: "The WebMD content staff blends award-winning expertise in medicine, journalism, health communication and content creation to bring you the best health information possible. Our esteemed colleagues at MedicineNet.com are frequent contributors to WebMD and comprise our Medical Editorial Board. Our Independent Medical Review Board continuously reviews the site for accuracy and timeliness."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

Womenshealth.gov

• Description: "Becoming a mother is one of the most exciting times in a woman's life. Whether you're dreaming of motherhood, trying to conceive, or already pregnant, you've come to the right place. This section of womenshealth.gov will help you learn what you can do before, during, and after pregnancy to give your baby a healthy start to life."
• Quality: his site is owned and maintained by the Office on Women's Health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Pregnancy Library lists other resources as well.