pregnancy & childbirth

Pregnancy & Childbirth

Active Birth Alcohol & Drugs During Pregnancy Alcohol Amphetamines Benzodiazepines Buprenorphine Cannabis Heroin and other opiates Inhalants Methadone Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Tobacco Amniocentesis Before your first pregnancy appointment at the Women's Blood Clots: Reducing the risk of blood clots in your legs or lungs Chorionic Villus Sampling CVS Coping with common discomforts of pregnancy Cord blood collection Exercising your pelvic floor Female circumcision: Deinfibulation procedure information Going home from hospital Going home when your waters have broken Herbal preparations in pregnancy Induction of Labour Jaundice and your newborn baby Nutrition fact sheets Food safety during pregnancy Healthy eating for pregnancy Iron & pregnancy Vegetarian eating and pregnancy Weight gain in pregnancy Obesity and pregnancy Taking your placenta home for burial Post natal exercises for new mothers Shared Maternity Care at the Royal Women's Hospital Stages of labour Taking care of yourself in early pregnancy Things to bring into Hospital Ultrasound Using water for pain relief during labour

Folate in pregnancy (from the Better Health Channel website)

Infant Hepatitis B (from the Victorian Government Health Information website)

Mercury in fish (from the Better Health Channel website)

Pride and Joy - A resource for prospective lesbian parents in Victoria

Vitamin K (from the Better Health Channel website)

Note: Many of the above factsheets are also available as mutilingual pdfs.

The multilingual fact sheets are available for viewing/download for printing as .pdf files. If you do not have a copy of Acrobat Reader to access these files it is available for free download from www.adobe.com.