Questions for your healthcare provider


9 Questions to Help You Get Your 9 Months

Nine months of a healthy pregnancy is the best gift you can give your future baby. There are things you can do, before you get pregnant, to help give your baby a better chance of a healthy and full-term birth.

Plan your pregnancy and see a doctor or nurse before and during pregnancy to talk about the following topics. Here are 9 questions to ask your healthcare provider before you get pregnant

What do I need to know about:

  1. Diabetes, high blood pressure, infections or other health problems?
  2. Medicines or home remedies?
  3. Taking a multivitamin pill with folic acid in it each day?
  4. Getting to a healthy weight before pregnancy?
  5. Smoking, drinking alcohol and taking illegal drugs?
  6. Unsafe chemicals or other things I should stay away from at home or at work?
  7. Taking care of myself and lowering my stress?
  8. How long to wait between pregnancies? (Ask your health care provider what's best for you.)
  9. My family history, including premature birth? Premature birth is when your baby is born too early, before 37 completed weeks of pregnancy.

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Nine days past her due date, Sara Howe was awakened at 3:00AM when her water broke. Thrilled that the long wait was finally over, Sara and her husband David packed up and headed to PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center. By 5:00AM they were comfortably settled into one of PeaceHealth Southwest’s Labor Delivery Recovery and Postpartum rooms, ready for action. But four hours later, Sara contractions had still not progressed so her midwife started her on Pitocin. Soon the contractions kicked in and Sara was well on her way.

At around eight o’clock the next morning, it was time for Sara to start pushing. So she pushed. And she pushed, and she pushed, and she pushed. "The first few hours of pushing went by without me realizing the time," remarked Sara. "But around the fourth hour I started to wonder if I was still making progress. That is when the encouragement of my midwife, husband and the PeaceHealth Southwest nursing staff kept me going. It was like I had my own cheering section."

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