Being born early can sometimes be the result of insufficient prenatal care, or just bad luck.
Once you become pregnant, your doctor will address gestational diabetes as part of your regular prenatal care.
In addition to the residential services, hundreds of prenatal women receive prenatal care at the Center each day.
The baby was born to a mother who hadn't had prenatal care and didn't know her HIV status.
I'd like to see a lot more spending on prenatal care and less at the end of life.
They lack access to everything from education to prenatal care and are subject to exceptionally high levels of domestic violence.
In the U.S., high compliance with prenatal care and routine HIV testing during pregnancy has all but eliminated HIV-positive newborns.
This week, the Dutch Christian newspaper Trouw published an article about prenatal care in Israel written by Ilse van Heusden.
At local clinics, family doctors 60% of them women supervise these immunisations, prenatal care, cancer screenings and care for people with chronic conditions.
Before leaving their tables, women at the dinner pledged time and money for more prenatal care and maternity clinics in developing nations.
Because of this reform, insurance companies have to cover basic preventative things like contraception, cancer screenings, prenatal care, with no extra cost.
Casey started Kangu, a crowdfunding website that supports prenatal care and childbirth services for high-risk women in developing countries, after becoming a mother herself.
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African-American mothers are 2.5 times as likely as white mothers to begin prenatal care in the 3rd trimester, or not receive it at all.
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These women are the ones who lose access to critical medical services such as cancer-screening, check-ups and even prenatal care also provided at these clinics.
Prenatal care makes a difference too: If your mother smoked or was malnourished while she was pregnant, you're probably slightly shorter than you should be.
The unidentified Mississippi woman in this case had no prenatal care and was not diagnosed as HIV positive until just before she delivered the baby.
Probably she should have had better prenatal care, possibly some supplements.
That's because obstetric fistulas were largely eradicated from the United States by the 20th century, with strides in prenatal care and the use of cesarean section.
In January 2010, when the victim sought to get prenatal care during her own pregnancy, she had difficulty getting a birth certificate from Pettway, prosecutors said.
And because we passed this law, insurance companies now have to cover basic preventative care -- things like mammograms, prenatal care -- at no extra cost.
When violence bars women from HIV testing and prenatal care, the risk that they will pass HIV to their babies during childbirth and breastfeeding becomes much greater.
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As of last fall, every American who buys a new plan can access preventive care like mammograms, immunizations, and prenatal care to get and stay healthy for free.
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Brown, Charleston police, local prosecutors and prenatal care doctors at MUSC formed a task force to figure out how best to protect the fetuses, according to a prior court ruling.
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It must make the policyholder entirely responsible for all medical bills up to the amount of the deductible, with certain exceptions (such as for preventive services like cancer screening and prenatal care).
The U.S. also has the highest teenage birth rate of any industrialized country -- and teenage mothers in the U.S. tend to have less education, prenatal care, and financial resources than their older counterparts.
At the Department of Health and Human Services, Secretary Sebelius is working to provide mothers with better prenatal care, and to give parents and caregivers the information they need to make healthy decisions for their families.
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And because we passed this law -- something that no other President has been able to do -- insurance companies now have to cover basic preventative care, things like mammograms and prenatal care, at no extra cost.
In 2005, the CDC recommended that if a women arrives in labor in the emergency room and has not had prenatal care, a rapid, 20-minute test for HIV should be done so preventive treatment can be started immediately.
MUSC, which began the policy in 1989 and ended it in 1993, began the program at the urging of Shirley Brown, a nurse in the obstetrics department, who sought legal advice after noticing that more and more low-income women seeking prenatal care were testing positive for cocaine.
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Two years ago, we all, together, made history by finally passing health reform -- something no other President was able to do. (Applause.) And because we passed this law, as Betsy said, insurance companies now have to cover basic preventative care like mammograms, prenatal care, and to do it at no extra cost.
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