Here you can find practice guidelines, clinical reports, interactive tools, and other resources designed for health care providers.
2011 NARAL CPC Report from NARAL
ACOG Committee Opinion No. 443: Air Travel During Pregnancy. Obstet Gynecol. 2009 Oct; 114(4):954.
ACOG Issues Guidance for Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring from MedPage Today
ACOG Issues New Guidelines on Managing Stillbirths from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
Acute Maternal HIV Infection During Pregnancy and Breast-feeding: Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission in Resource-Limited Settings from Medscape Today
Adding It Up: The Costs and Benefits of Investing in Family Planning and Maternal and Newborn Health, Guttmacher Institute and the United Nations Population Fund. 2009 Dec 1.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Outcomes of Maternal Weight Gain Report (PDF)
Assessing Risk and Benefit: To Treat or Not to Treat Major Depression During Pregnancy With Antidepressant Medication from the American Journal of Psychiatry
Assisted Reproductive Technology Surveillance --- United States, 2006. CDC, 2009.
Behind International Rankings of Infant Mortality: How the United States Compares with Europe CDC; 2009 Nov
Births—Method of Delivery from the National Center for Health Statistics
Births: Preliminary Data for 2007 (PDF) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Breastfeeding with Postpartum Depression from Advance for Physician Assistants
Breastfeeding Questions Answered: A Guide for Providers from The INFO Project at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Communication Programs
Cesarean Delivery on Maternal Request National Institutes of Health State-of-the-Science Conference Statement (PDF)
Committee opinion no. 453: screening for depression during and after pregnancy. Obstet Gynecol. 2010 Feb; 115(2 Pt 1): 394-5.
Counseling Patients on Preconception Care: Folate and Beyond 
Delayed Childbearing: More Women Are Having Their First Child Later in Life from the CDC National Center for Health Statistics
Diabetes in Pregnancy from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), UK
Do pediatricians recognize mothers with depressive symptoms? From Case Western Reserve University
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders – A Guide for Healthcare Professionals from the British Medical Association
Gene-Environment Interactions: PCB Exposures and Adverse Effects on Pregnancy from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
A Healthy Baby Begins with You: African American Infant Mortality Awareness Campaign from the Office of Minority Health
Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancy: A Trainer’s Reference Guide (PDF) from USAID
HIV and Pregnancy: Medical and Legal Considerations for Women and Their Advocates, Center for HIV Law and Policy from The Center for HIV Law and Policy
Hospitalizations Related to Childbirth, 2006 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, April 2009
Impact of maternal immunization on influenza hospitalizations in infants from American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Interactive Wheel for Dating Pregnancy from Premier Diagnostic Services
Interim Guidelines for the Evaluation of Infants Born to Mothers Infected with West Nile Virus during Pregnancy from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Know What to Do About the Flu – Pregnant Women and New Moms (Webcast) from the US Department of Health and Human Services
The Lancet: ORACLE studies: New data to inform clinical practice around preterm labour
Living Testimony: Obstetric Fistula and Inequities in Maternal Health from the UNFPA
Male Infertility from Advance for LPNs
Medications and Pregnancy from CDC
The Management of Preeclampsia After 36 Weeks' Gestation from Medscape Today
Management of Thyroid Dysfunction during Pregnancy and Postpartum: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline (PDF) from the Endocrine Society
Managing Asthma during Pregnancy: Recommendations for Pharmacologic Treatment from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
Managing Complications in Pregnancy and Childbirth from World Health Organization
MedEdPPD.org Resources about postpartum depression for health care professionals, women, and their loved ones
Maternal Hyperglycemia Linked to Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes from Medscape
Mood Disorder Questionnaire from University of Texas Medical Branch
Pregnancy and childbirth: the effects on pelvic floor muscles from the Nursing Times
Preventing Gaps When Switching Contraceptives from Reproductive Access
Patient Health Questionnaire from the MacArthur Initiative on Depression and Primary Care
Position of the American Dietetic Association and American Society for Nutrition: Obesity, Reproduction, and Pregnancy Outcomes
Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Adolescents Born Weighing <2000 Grams from Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics
Recent Trends in Cesarean Delivery in the United States. CDC; NCHS Data Brief. No. 35; 2010 Mar.
Study: Likelihood That a Woman With Screen-Detected Breast Cancer Has Had Her "Life Saved" by That Screening from Archives of Internal Medicine
From Medscape
Monitoring Emergency Obstetric Care: a handbook from the World Health Organization
Myocardial Infarction In Pregnancy from Advance for Physician Assistants
MyPyramid for Pregnancy and Breastfeeding: Nutritional Information from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
National Children’s Study sponsored by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
New Network to Track Drugs and Vaccines in Pregnancy from Science magazine
No Tally of the Anguish from Human Rights Watch
Oncofertility Consortium addresses health care and quality-of-life issues that concern young cancer patients whose fertility may be threatened by their disease or treatment
Position of the American Dietetic Association and American Society for Nutrition: Obesity, Reproduction, and Pregnancy Outcomes
Postpartum Family Planning for Healthy Pregnancy Outcomes Trainers’ Manual (PDF) from the Extending Service Delivery Project, funded by USAID's Bureau for Global Health
Potentially Avoidable Injuries to Mothers and Newborns During Childbirth, 2006 (PDF) from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Pregnancy and childbirth: the effects on pelvic floor muscles from the Nursing Times
Pregnancy in Gastrointestinal Disorders (PDF) from the American College of Gastroenterology
Pregnancy and Interstitial Cystitis/Painful Bladder Syndrome from Medical News Today
Premature Birth Report Card, 2009 from the March of Dimes
Preterm Birth: Causes, Consequences, and Prevention from the Institute of Medicine
Preventing Infections During Pregnancy from the the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Promoting Sexual and Reproductive Health Advances Maternal Health from the Guttmacher Policy Review
Quick Reference Guide for Clinicians: Postpartum Counseling
Rapid advice: use of antiretroviral drugs for treating pregnant women and preventing HIV Infection in infants from the World Health Organization, 2009
A Real-Time Look at the Impact of the Recession on Women’s Family Planning and Pregnancy Decisions from the Guttmacher Institute
Recommendations to Improve Preconception Health and Health Care from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Science and Sensibility: Choice of Birth Place in the United States from Medscape Today
Screening for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Systematic Review for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
Screening for Hepatitis B Virus Infection in Pregnant Women: Evidence for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Reaffirmation Recommendation Statement
Screening for Syphilis Infection in Pregnancy: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Reaffirmation Recommendation Statement
State Standards for Pregnancy-Related Health Care in Prisons from the American Civil Liberties Union
The State of the World's Children 2009 from UNICEF
The World’s Women and Girls from Population Reference Bureau
Surgical techniques for uterine incision and uterine closure at the time of caesarean section (Review) (PDF) from the Cochrane Library Issue 3, 2008
United States Maternity Care Facts and Figures: December 2009 from Childbirth Connection
Updated Interim Recommendations for Obstetric Health Care Providers Related to Use of Antiviral Medications in the Treatment and Prevention of Influenza for the 2009-2010 Season from the CDC
Vaginal Delivery of Breech Presentation (PDF) Clinical Guidelines from the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
Weight Gain During Pregnancy: Reexamining the Guidelines from the Institute of Medicine
West Nile Virus, Pregnancy and Breast-feeding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Why Are Fewer Hospitals in the Delivery Business? (PDF) from The Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis
Your Six-Week Postpartum Check-up: A Health Care Guide for New Mothers / Su Chequeo Médico Completo de la Semana Sexta después del Parto: Una Guía del Cuidado de la Salud para Madres Nuevas, a one-page tear-off sheet that health care providers can offer to their patients during the postpartum check up to facilitate healthy behaviors
