This 1-page handout describes NICHD's efforts to ensure inclusion of women and pregnant and lactating women in research on how COVID-19 and its vaccines affect women's health, including menstruation, pregnancy, and breastfeeding. 

This fact sheet describes the NICHD's Human Placenta Project, a research effort aimed at understanding the placenta. The Project aims to develop tools and methods to safely study the placenta in real-time to learn more about this link between mother and fetus. Findings from the Human Placenta Project could enable health care providers to fix problems with the placenta before they negatively affect a pregnancy.

This sheet, part of the Pregnancy for Every Body initiative, lists questions pregnant women should be asking and answering before their first pregnancy care appointment to help plan for a healthy pregnancy. The initiative aims to help plus-size pregnant women and their healthcare providers talk about pregnancy and weight. This action plan forms the basis for the personalized pregnancy care plan that healthcare providers and plus-size pregnant women create together to promote healthy pregnancy.

This checklist, part of the Pregnancy for Every Body initiative, outlines things that providers should think about when providing prenatal care to plus-size pregnant women. The initiative aims to help plus-size pregnant women and their healthcare providers talk about pregnancy and weight. Items in this checklist are adapted from materials from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Available in sets of 25 sheets.

This handout, part of the Pregnancy for Every Body initiative, suggests ways that healthcare providers can start respectful and non-judgmental conversations with plus-size pregnant women. The initiative aims to help plus-size pregnant women and their healthcare providers talk about pregnancy and weight. Available in sets of 25 sheets.

This card, part of the Pregnancy for Every Body initiative, provides a starting point for women who have just found out they are pregnant to begin receiving prenatal care. The initiative aims to help plus-size pregnant women and their healthcare providers talk about pregnancy and weight.

This sheet, part of the Pregnancy for Every Body initiative, suggests questions plus-size pregnant women should ask their healthcare providers at their first pregnancy care appointment. The initiative aims to help plus-size pregnant women and their healthcare providers talk about pregnancy and weight.