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Every year around this time, I like to take some time to consider maternal health. World Health Day 2025: Healthy beginnings, hopeful futures<\/a> on April 7, begins a year focused on mothers and babies. \u00a0National Women\u2019s Health Week<\/a> is celebrated in May along with other health awareness weeks in April and May focusing on Women\u2019s Health and specifically maternal health.<\/p>\n This year I am highlighting some resources related to healthy pregnancies from MyHealthFinder and MedlinePlus. I would also like to focus on two key resources to support maternal health, the Hear Her Campaign<\/a> and the HRSA National Maternal Mental Health Hotline<\/a>.<\/p>\n From My Health Finder find a selection of resources to support Healthy Pregnancy<\/a><\/p>\n From MedlinePlus:<\/p>\n Learn more about the Hear Her Campaign<\/a> including the Urgent Maternal Warning Signs<\/a> available in multiple languages<\/a>.<\/p>\n Another important support for maternal health is supporting the mental health of new and expecting parents. Perinatal depression<\/a> is a mood disorder that occurs during pregnancy and after childbirth. About\u00a01 in 8 women<\/strong>\u00a0report symptoms of Postpartum Depression<\/a> in the year after giving birth. The Office on Women\u2019s Health has a variety of resources available through their program Talking Postpartum Depression<\/a>. Two key resources for mental health support are 988 Lifeline<\/a> and the National Maternal Mental Health Hotline<\/a>.<\/p>\n In addition to these resources, a number of organizations work to support the health of mothers and babies, such as the Maternal and Child Health Bureau<\/a>, OASH Office on Women\u2019s Health<\/a>, the March of Dimes<\/a>, and HRSA<\/a>. The CDC’s Division of Reproductive Health (DRH)<\/a> has developed programs to improve women’s health, improve pregnancy health and care, and give infants the healthiest start in life. Some of their work is to prevent maternal deaths<\/a>, 80% of which are preventable.<\/p>\n NNLM Reading Club selections on Black Maternal Health <\/a>, Menopause<\/a>, Women in Medicine<\/a>. Coming in April, book selections on Menstruation<\/a>.<\/p>\n Upcoming webinar: Reimagining Reproduction: An Art-Based Study of Reproductive Health Care | NNLM<\/a><\/p>\n The\u00a0N<\/a>NLM Birthing Persons Toolkit<\/a>. It includes messages, hashtags, graphics, and handouts to support library staff with health information for birthing persons.<\/p>\n NLM Collection Tour: Women\u2019s History \u2013 Circulating Now from the NLM Historical Collections<\/a><\/p>\n Articles from NIH MedlinePlus Magazine<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Every year around this time, I like to take some time to consider maternal health. World Health Day 2025: Healthy beginnings, hopeful futures on April 7, begins a year focused on mothers and babies. \u00a0National Women\u2019s Health Week is celebrated in May along with other health awareness weeks in April and May focusing on Women\u2019s… Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2975,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2975"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18512"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18529,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18512\/revisions\/18529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Know](\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/03\/HearHerKnowthe-UrgentSignsshareable-graphics-300x167.jpg\")
<\/p>\nResources to support healthy pregnancy:<\/h3>\n
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Health concerns in pregnancy<\/h3>\n
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Supporting Maternal Health<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nMore tools and resources related to Women\u2019s Health, Women in Medicine, and Maternal Health<\/h2>\n
Resources from the NNLM:<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nResources from NLM:<\/h3>\n
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