Early Pregnancy

Wondering whether or not you are pregnant can create excitement or anxiety depending on your personal situation.  This section of the site will help you to determine if you are pregnant and, if so, what you can expect.

Understanding pregnancy symptoms is important because each symptom may be related to something other than pregnancy. Some women experience pregnancy symptoms within a week of conception. For other women, symptoms may develop over a few weeks or may not be present at all. This site includes a listing of some of the most common pregnancy symptoms.

Staying healthy during pregnancy depends on you, so it is crucial to arm yourself with information about the many ways to keep you and your baby as healthy as possible.

Whether it is your 1st time or your 3rd time, taking a home pregnancy test (HPT) can be an experience filled with nervousness. To help you deal with your concerns, find out how a home pregnancy test works, what can affect the results, and when to visit your health care provider.

Every year nearly one million American women deliver babies without receiving adequate medical attention. While many of these women and their children do fine, we know that babies born to mothers who received no prenatal care are three times more likely to be born at low birth weight, and five times more likely to die, than those whose mothers received prenatal care.

There are both invasive and non-invasive methods of diagnosing a problem before birth. Read this section for some of the key facts on the most common pregnancy procedures and prenatal tests.

A common diagnostic procedure, an ultrasound uses high-frequency sound waves to "echo," or bounce, off the body and create a picture. This site should help you understand more about ultrasound and whether you want to ask your health care provider to use ultrasound during your pregnancy.

Unplanned pregnancy can be scary and leave you feeling confused and, most of all, unprepared. In this section we try to help you find answers to the questions most commonly asked by women who have found themselves with an unplanned pregnancy.