Use this page as a guide to care and potential problems that might occur

1. Keeping yourself and your baby healthy
2. Pregnancy related symptoms
3. Pregnancy complications
4. Other conditions and pregnancy
5. After the birth
6. Miscellaneous information

Keeping yourself and your baby healthy

• 10 ways you can help yourself to have a healthy baby.
• Prevention of neural tube defects
• The pregnancy test
• Maternity care at the Devonshire Lodge Surgery: schedule of visits
• What to bring to the ante-natal clinic
• Smoking and pregnancy
• Alcohol and pregnancy
• Medication and pregnancy
• Simple pain relief in pregnancy
• Parentcraft classes
• Ante-natal screeing for Down's syndrome and neural tube defects
• What is Down's syndrome?
• Nuchal translucency scans for the detection of Down's syndrome
• Fitness and exercise
• Maternity certificates, benefits, free prescriptions and dental care
• Peanut Allergy

Pregnancy related symptoms

• Early pregnancy symptoms
• Headaches, palpitations and fainting
• Abdominal pains
• Breathlessness
• Constipation and piles
• Varicose veins
• Backache
• Pins and needles
• Ankle swelling and leg cramps
• Nausea and vomiting

Pregnancy complications

• Pre-eclampsia
• Bleeding during early pregnancy
• Bleeding during later pregnancy
• Bile obstruction and jaundice
• Premature rupture of membranes ("waters breaking")
• Foetal movements

Other conditions and pregnancy

• Rubella (German Measles) and pregnancy
• Listeria
• Toxoplasmosis
• Chicken pox in pregnancy
• Cystitis and pregnancy
• Heartburn and pregnancy
• Genital herpes simplex
• HIV and pregnancy

After the birth

• After your baby is born
• Registering the birth
• Mother's post natal check
• The health visitor
• Child health surveillance checks and immunisations
• Baby clinic
• Child health record book (the Red Book)
• Breast or bottle feeding?
• Passive smoking-the risk to your child's health

Miscellaneous information

• Benefits timetable
• Booklist

• Useful telephone numbers