Technology today offers many opportunities to live healthier, during pregnancy and at other times. It also provides the chance to share. No matter your salary or education level, it is possible to use technology to enhance your pregnancy — and to share your joy with others. Twitter is one of the tools you can use. Here are 17 fun and useful Twitter apps for your pregnancy:

Health

Make sure that you are taking good care of your baby and yourself. These Twitter apps can help you keep track of your weight, log your exercise and be accountable for your eating habits. Develop a healthy routine during pregnancy, and there will be a better chance for a healthy baby later on.

1. Ugomo: This is a fitness Twitter app. You can track your pregnancy routine, and keep track of your weight throughout. Make sure that you have your fitness routine approved by your health care provider before you get started. But you can stay motivated — and healthy — with help from Ugomo.
2. Weight Loss Charts: Part of a healthy pregnancy is healthy weight gain. It’s true that this Twitter app is called “Weight Loss Charts.” However, you can still use them to help you keep track of weight gain. Tweet your weight, and you can watch your progress. Use Weight Loss Charts to help you gain weight at a healthy rate — and slow down if you turn out to be gaining too quickly.
3. Twittercize: Find simple exercises to do wherever you are. A good way to simply stay in shape. However, be warned that not all the exercises here are designed for pregnancy. Find out what should be a no-no before you do what you find on Twittercize.
4. TweetBe.at: This list application can help you keep track of your appointments. If you have appointments with the health care provider, or if you are looking for a way to organize your Twitter lists and other aspects of your life.
5. Tweet what you Eat: Be accountable for your diet choices during pregnancy. Great app will help you keep track of what you are eating and your calories. Go back through, and see what foods you need to improve on. This might include foods with folic acid to help your baby’s development!
6. Inner Twitter: Take time to meditate. You can enhance your feeling of connection to the baby developing within in the help of mindfulness and meditation. Inner Twitter will help you pause, reflect and improve yourself.

Fun

These fun Twitter applications and resources allow you to create pregnancy tickers, as well as tweet information about your developing baby. Fun apps that can be used to share the joy, and keep your followers updated.

7. Twackit: You can track anything using this cool Twitter app. Create a hashtag for your pregnancy, and then send the information you want. This can be the number of weeks you are along, or the estimated weight of the fetus, or any other interesting information about your pregnancy.
8. Free Pregnancy Tickers: The Bump allows you to create different pregnancy tickers that can then be posted on Twitter. This will help you count down your pregnancy, and even includes your baby’s development. Customize your ticker for your Twitter account, and let your followers see what’s happening.
9. Twitter Pregnancy Badges: Create a fun badge for your Twitter account. These Twitter badges come with code that you can use on your Twitter account. You can use them on your blog to direct people to your Twitter account. Fun badges that show that you are enjoying pregnancy.
10. TwitPic: Share images with your Twitter followers. You can share ultrasound images of your developing baby, or you can show your growing baby bump. A great way to document your pregnancy using Twitter.
11. Twoxit: This useful widget is great for putting on your blog. You can keep your status on your blog — and you can also enter tweets from the widget on your blog. A fun way to make sure that everyone is in the loop with your pregnancy.
12. TwitVid: You can also share videos on Twitter. If you have an ultrasound that includes movement, this can be great for Twitvid. You can also make use of it to document you giving birth. As long as you don’t mind sharing with thousands of people.

Apps to Help You Post to Twitter

You can keep your followers up to date on the latest pregnancy happenings when you use these apps that actually help you post to Twitter. These apps might be for iPhone, Android or Facebook, but they will also get the information to Twitter. Socially integrate your pregnancy.

13. BabyBump: This is for Palm, iPhone and Android. You can use it to find out what you want to know about being pregnant — and being healthy. You can use this application to share information with others around the world, including with the use of Twitter.
14. iPregnancy: This application is for iPhone only. A great resource to help you keep up with appointments and track your progress. You can learn more about the biology of pregnancy. Integrates with Twitter so you can share.
15. Pregnancy Countdown: This app helps you countdown your pregnancy. A fun and visual way to track your pregnancy progress. It comes with Facebook and Twitter integration for easy posting.
16. BabyCenter My Pregnancy Today: Great app with helpful information for parents to be. Includes guided advice, as well as the ability to integrate with Twitter. Help your follows keep up with your pregnancy and share the joy.
17. Pregnancy Companion: This is a helpful app that can keep you posted on what you should be doing to help your baby throughout pregnancy. Includes easy Twitter integration.

Heart

1. Act In Time To Heart Attack Signs: A simple and easy test of 10 questions to help you assess your need for medical treatment, provided by The National Heart, Blood And Lung Institute.
2. Body Mass Index Calculator: An effective quiz gives a numerical value of weight in accordance to height.
3. Cost of Smoking: What does your smoking habit cost financially? Breaks prices down to monthly and yearly totals.
4. Health and Fitness Calculator: This health and fitness calculator includes indicators for blood pressure, heart-rate zones, body fat and risk of chronic disease.
5. Heart Attack Risk Calculator: All you need are your current systolic and HDL and total cholesterol numbers to assess your risk for heart attack.
6. Heart Attack Risk Calculator: This calculator estimates your 10-year risk of a heart attack or coronary death. It includes recent data from the Framington Heart Study.
7. Heart Disease: This interactive tool estimates your risk of coronary heart disease and provides personalized tips for prevention.
8. High Blood Pressure Learning Center: This set of tools helps readers learn more about high blood pressure and its relationship to heart disease and death.
9. MUSC’s HeartAware Online Heart Risk Assessment: This tool evaluates your risk of cardiovascular disease, including congestive heart disease, in 10-minutes.
10. Stroke Risk Calculator: This stroke risk calculator can be used to assess your risk of having a stroke within the next 10 years.

Cancer

11. Breast Care Quiz: Breast Cancer is currently the second leading killer of American women and the leading cause of death among women 44 to 55. Take this quiz to learn more.
12. Cancer Basics Quiz: iVillage offers a way to learn more about cancer, and are completely confidential.
13. Cancer Checklist: From the R.A. Bloch Cancer Foundation. A detailed list of everyday ways of helping to prevent cancer, staying informed of its causes.
14. Cancer Facts Quiz: Get informed about your cancer risks on this true and false test.
15. Colon Cancer Quiz: This quiz was prepared by Dr. Waqar Qureshi, professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.
16. Colorectal Cancer Quiz: A true or false quiz, fast and simple to take to help you make better health choices and take less risks.
17. Nutrition And Activity Quiz: Another informative quiz by The American Cancer Society. Helps to determine if your lifestyle and eating habits are conducive to helping to prevent cancer.
18. Ovarian Cancer Awareness Quiz: Are you aware of the signs of ovarian cancer? Get informed here and learn more about the disease.
19. Signs And Symptoms Of Thyroid Cancer: With nearly 25,000 cases diagnosed this year alone, this quiz may help you to detect a disease that typically shows no early signs.
20. UICC Cancer Quiz: This quiz is part of the World Cancer Campaign, and tests your knowledge on cancer worldwide.

Diabetes

21. Are You at Risk of Diabetic Nerve Pain? Find out if you may already have nerve damage by taking this simple test.
22. Diabetic Eye Disease: Help determine if you are at risk for blindness. Diabetic eye disease is the leading cause of sight-loss.
23. Diabetes Risk Test: Take this quiz to help you asses your risk for type two diabetes. Provided by The American Diabetes Association.
24. Diabetes Quiz: Did you know you may not be aware if you have diabetes? Screening is important to assess your risk and you can do so here.
25. Diabetes Quizzes: This is a goldmine for quizzes about diabetic health. These quizzes were designed to provide facts in a fun way, so don’t sweat the results. You always can take the tests over.
26. Diabetes Symptoms Quiz: What do you know about the onset of diabetes? Do you think you may be experiencing symptoms?
27. Diabetes Symptoms Quiz: Another way to learn about diabetes symptoms.
28. Gestational Diabetes Quiz: If you are pregnant, take this quiz to help determine your risk for gestational diabetes.
29. How Do I Know If I Have Diabetes? The early stages of diabetes have very few symptoms, so you may not know you have the disease. But damage may already be happening to your eyes, your kidneys and your cardiovascular system even before you notice symptoms.
30. How Much Do You Know About Diabetes? This quiz provides basic facts about diabetes and this disease’s symptoms.

Men’s and Women’s Health

31. Aging Eye Quiz: What is considered normal aging? What changes can women expect with their vision? Find out with this quiz!
32. Are You Old Before Your Time? This quiz for men reveals your “true age” by measuring the suppleness and activeness of your mind and body.
33. Do You Know Enough about Men’s Health? Try this free Men’s Health quiz and see how much you really know about important male health issues.
34. Friend to Friend: The Illinois Women’s Health Campaign has designed this health quiz for women to learn more about women’s health issues.
35. Men’s Health Quiz: How to Stay Healthy: Take this quiz now to get basic facts about tests that men need to know.
36. Test Your Knowledge about Women’s Health: This Centers for Disease Control and Prevention test covers a wide variety of issues that pertain to women.
37. Test Your Knowledge of Men’s Health: The Men’s Center at Bumrungrad International provides a quiz to help anyone learn more about male health issues.
38. The Men’s Health Quiz: Answer ten questions to find out how much you know about men’s health.
39. The Prostate Quiz: Learn basic knowledge about prostate health for men.
40. Women’s Health Quiz: Some diseases are more common among women or affect them in a different way from men. Learn more with this 3SmartCubes quiz.

Psychological Health

41. Asperger’s Syndrome Test: The table in this page provides a simplified version of the DSM-IV definition, used by professionals to diagnose disorders.
42. Attention Deficit Disorder (ADHD) Test: Use this test to help determine if you need to see a mental health professional for diagnosis and treatment of ADD or ADHD in an adult.
43. Autism Spectrum Quotient: Read each of the 50 statements very carefully and state how strongly you agree or disagree. When you’ve answered all the questions, press the ‘Get score’ button at the bottom to see your results.
44. Goldberg Bipolar Spectrum Screening Questionnaire: A great screening tool used by mental health professionals for bipolar spectrum disorders.
45. Mental Health Tests: Enjoy this plethora of tests, from addiction to anxiety and from mood disorders to personality disorders.
46. Narcissism Test: Are you narcissistic? Take this free test to learn more about narcissism.
47. Personality Disorder Test: This test may help to determine if your symptoms could be from the result of borderline personality disorder.
48. PMDD Self-Screening Quiz: Do you suffer from severe emotional symptoms associated with menstruation. You may have PMDD. Find out here.
49. Stress Test: This test is offered by Behavioral Health Concepts, Inc.
50. Suicide IQ Test: The point of this exercise is to show how suicidal people look at the world, not to give methods.

Technology has opened the door to a number of tools and applications that can help you enhance your health. Twitter is one of these. While Twitter provides a great way to keep in touch, there are also a number of useful applications — including those for health and fitness. Here are 25 great Twitter apps that can help you with your health and fitness goals:

Fitness

Get in shape with these great fitness Twitter apps. Exercise is an important part of your health, and Twitter can help you increase your fitness.

1. TweetaRun: This fun app is a social exercise Twitter experience. The idea is that you can tweet what you are doing in terms of running, and encourage others. And, of course, you can receive encouragement in return.
2. dailymile: Log your training. This is especially great for those training for a triathlon, or for cyclists and runners. Also works for swimmers. You can tweet your mileage, and your time. A great way to connect with others, and watch how your mileage adds to the total.
3. Ugomo: Share your workouts, and get feedback. This awesome Twitter app will also help you track your progress by providing charts and summaries. Use Twitter to help you exercise more.
4. Twiike: If you have a Nike username and you are using syncing tools, you can automatically share your work out information on Twitter.
5. gtFtr: Use this great Twitter app to increase your fitness, and share information about what you are up to. A great way to track your fitness, and to share your experiences with your social media friends. Stay motivated with help from others.
6. TwunLog: For runners, this log is a great way to keep track of your own runs, and your progress. You can then compare it with other people that you follow on Twitter.
7. TrainingTwits: This training application is a great way to log workouts and track your progress. Watch your fitness improve.
8. TweetMyTime: Stay motivated as you train for a race using this Twitter app. A great way to share your progress and connect with others who are training for races.
9. Twittercize: Blog Salad offers a connection to Twittercize. If you are interested in getting quick, one-minute workouts, Twitter can help.

Nutrition

Keep yourself honest about what you are eating, and get helpful tips, with a little help from these nutrition Twitter apps.

10. FoodFeed: Keep yourself honest by tweeting what you eat. Let others know what you have been eating, and see what others are eating. A great way to get healthy ideas.
11. Twiddish: Post photos and short reviews of dishes when you eat out. A fun way to focus on food. Can get on iPhone.
12. Tweet what you eat: Keep your food diary using this helpful Twitter app. Helps you see just what you are eating, so that you can review your calorie intake, and see where you could make changes.
13. Wheel of Yum!: Awesome Twitter app that helps you decide what to eat. Get randomized suggestions for what to eat. Add your own restaurants and options, including healthy options.
14. nom.ms: This Twitter app is all about looking at pictures of food. Share your food choices, and make the decisions to eat better — and inspire others with your delicious and healthy choices.

Weight Loss

If you have a weight loss goal, these great apps can help you reach it, helping you live a healthier life.

15. Twackit: You can keep track of different metrics over time — including your weight. Stay motivated and document your progress with charts and graphs.
16. w8track: You can use this great Twitter app to help you keep track of your weight, and be inspired by your progress.
17. FatDrop.pr: This is a global weight loss game that allows you to tweet your weight and compare to others.
18. ShouldBet: Create fun challenges and tweet them. A great way to challenge yourself and your friends to better weight loss. Fun way to stay motivated and find support.
19. Weight Loss Charts: A great way to keep track of your weight loss. See charts that show you, simply, what your progress is.
20. TweetPlot: This great tool can be used to keep track of your weight — or any other information you are interested in. You can keep track of calories and exercise as well, figuring out how all these things intersect to help you lose weight.

Mind and Emotion

Your mental health and emotional state are important to your overall health. These Twitter apps can help keep you healthy in this way.

21. ASKch: A great way to get more health information. Find out about prescription costs in your area, and learn more about your own health.  Get fast answers to your pressing health questions.
22. TweetPsych: Find out more about yourself. Be analyzed by TweetPsych and learn about what you might change to improve your outlook on life.
23. Inner Twitter: A fun way to help you meditate and refocuses. The idea is to catch your attention in a gentle way. You stop what you are doing when you hear the chime. Then you focus on breathing, and engage in a mini-meditation. A good way to relieve stress during the day.
24. Meditation Twibe: Find helpful tips on meditation, and get insights into how you can increase your effectiveness in this area. A great way to find your spiritual center, as well as to relieve stress and open your mind.
25. Tweetbe.at: This organization tool can help you boost your productivity and reduce your stress. A great way to create and manage Twitter lists. If you are a power user in need of a little more organization, this Twitter app is for you.

The names on this list are arranged in alphabetical order by surname.

1. Dr. Linda Burke-Galloway, MS, FACOG is a board-certified ob-gyn physician who is a champion of patient safety and is on a mission to keep pregnant women from falling through the cracks of our healthcare system.Dr. Galloway is the author of The Smart Mother’s Guide to a Better Pregnancy.
2. Barbara Flis is a mother of two and founder of Parent Action for Healthy Kids. She recently was elected as president of the Michigan Organization on Adolescent Sexual Health (MOASH). Her mission is to reduce the costs of teen childbearing and to empower young people in Michigan to make informed decisions on sexual health, pregnancy prevention and parenthood.
3. Dr. Mary Herbert is an expert in reproductive biology at the Institute for Ageing and Health at Newcastle University. Her central research focus is concerns the mechanisms that regulate chromosome segregation during oogenesis. This work has led to the identification why some older women produce abnormal eggs.
4. Dr. Helen Kay, MD, an expert in the care of high-risk pregnancy patients, studies preeclampsia, a disease that affects five to eight percent of pregnant women and can result in high blood pressure, seizures, strokes and even death. From 1997 to 2002, Kay worked with GE Medical Systems to design and test an early version of the portable hand-held ultrasound.
5. Amy Tara Koch is a style expert, author, journalist and all-around fashion aficionado. She’s also become a pregnancy fashion expert, helping pregnant moms look their best. Bump It Up: Transforming Your Pregnancy into the Ultimate Style Statement was published this year and immediately touted as a must-read by outlets from the New York Times to Glamour Magazine.
6. Frances Largeman-Roth is a pregnancy and nutrition expert and the author of Feed the Belly: The Pregnant Mom’s Healthy Eating Guide. She is also the Senior Food & Nutrition Editor at Health magazine, where she works on healthy recipes, food trends, weight loss issues, and the latest nutrition research.
7. Dr. Michelle Mottola is the Director of R. Samuel McLaughlin Foundation Exercise and Pregnancy Laboratory at Western, which is the only lab in North America that specializes in the area of exercising pregnant and post-partum women. She is an anatomist and exercise physiologist, who, for the past 20 years, has conducted research on the effects of maternal exercise on both the mother and the developing fetus.
8. Heidi Murkoff is the author of the best-selling series of pregnancy books that began with What to Expect When You’re Expecting. She teamed up with medical writer Arlene Eisenberg and Sandee Hathaway, BSN, to write this “pregnancy bible.” In fact, according to USA Today, 93 percent of all expectant mothers who read a pregnancy guide read this book, now in its fourth edition.
9. Dr. Jack Newman, MD established Canada’s first breastfeeding clinic in 1984 at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. In 2006 he co-founded the Newman Breastfeeding Clinic and Institute (NBCI) with Edith Kernerman.
10. Lisa Olsen has become influential through her book, Pregnancy Miracle, filled with information geared toward women who are in their 40s, women who have a history of miscarriages, or women who suffer from uterine cysts and/or fibroids. Pregnancy Miracle is based upon what she learned from a midwife and practitioner of Chinese and homeopathic Medicine.
11. Dr. Enrique M. Ostrea, Jr., MD, visiting neonatologist and professor of pediatrics at the Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan, specializes in the study of pesticides and pregnant women. His latest findings show that popular insecticides contain toxic compounds, which are harmful to humans, especially to the unborn and children.
12. Gabriela Rosa is a famous naturapathic fertility specialist in Australia. Gabriela dedicates herself to the management of health issues for men and women and natural fertility treatment. In 2001 Gabriela created the accomplished Natural Fertility Solution Program, which she and her team run from her Sydney practice.
13. Todd Rosen, MD is assistant professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive services at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and director of maternal-fetal medicine at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. He specializes in high-risk pregnancies including multiple pregnancies, prenatal diagnosis and pre-term labor.
14. Alyson Schafer is a psychotherapist and one of Canada’s leading parenting experts. You can find her interviewed and quoted extensively in such publications as Cosmopolitan, Readers’ Digest, Canadian Living, Today’s Parents, and Canadian Families and on TV shows like CBC’s The National, TVO’s Agenda, and Montel Williams.
15. Dr. Robert S. Schenken, MD is professor and chairman of obstetrics and gynecology at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. He helps others to achieve certification through his service as a director of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and has served as an examiner for the board’s basic and subspecialty oral examinations.
16. Dr. Miriam Stoppard has been at the forefront of the revolution in health information since she began her writing and broadcasting career in the early 1970s. She has written several books about health, including the famous Children’s Medical Handbook, but she has focused particularly on women’s health.
17. Dr. Hugh S. Taylor is an expert in reproductive endocrinology at Yale School of Medicine in the Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences department. His research and clinical interests include infertility, in vitro fertilization, congenital anomalies, endometriosis, recurrent pregnancy loss and many more interests.
18. Dr. Mark Walker MSc, MD, FRCSC, is an assistant professor at the University of Ottawa and a scientist at the Ottawa Health Research Institute. Since beginning on staff 4 years ago he and his research partner Shi Wu Wen have created a nationally recognized group in perinatal epidemiology, OMNI (Obstetrics and Maternal Newborn Investigations).
19. Dr. Luis Zayas is the founder and director of the Brown School’s new Center for Latino Family Research. His primary interests are in clinical practice with adolescents and families and in training clinical practitioners, with a focus on mental health, including maternal mental health in pregnancy. He is preparing studies on treating perinatal depression in urban health centers.
20. Dr. Jun Zhang is a labor and delivery expert and senior investigator at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. His main research interests include labor and delivery, preeclampsia, fetal growth, and women’s reproductive health.

Development

Learn about how the baby develops during pregnancy, and understand the changes that your body is likely to experience.

1. Pregnancy: Weeks 1-4 (Month #1): A helpful video on getting pregnant, and what happens during the first month of pregnancy. You probably won’t even know you’re pregnant during this time!
2. Pregnancy: Weeks 5-8 (Month #2): A look at the 2nd month of pregnancy. Also includes some of the symptoms associated with pregnancy.
3. Pregnancy Weeks 9-12 (Month #3): Learn about what’s normal for pregnancy during this month. Addresses the size of your baby, and its rapid growth.
4. Pregnancy Weeks 13-16 (Month #4): Find out what to expect when it comes to your 2nd trimester, and how your baby develops.
5. Pregnancy Weeks 17-20 (Month #5): You’re getting toward the halfway point in your pregnancy, and you can see how your baby should develop — and how your body is changing.
6. Fetal Development Week 21: An interesting look at how your baby is starting to develop areas of self-reliance.
7. Fetal Development Week 30: Skip ahead to see how things are going with your baby — and recognize how he or she is beginning to look more human, and even interacting a little bit.
8. Fetal Development Week 35: You’re getting closer, and this video gives you some insight into development and see how most of the development is complete. Get ready for some weight gain for the baby.
9. Why the Last Weeks of Pregnancy Count: An interesting look at the importance of your final month of pregnancy.
10. The Stages of Pregnancy: Learn about pregnancy as it is divided into three stages. A helpful video that breaks it down for you.
11. Stages of Pregnancy: Week One to Week Forty: A slideshow that takes through you the different fetal developments during pregnancy, week by week.

Possible Problems

These videos address the possible problems that can result during pregnancy, and how you can deal with them.

12. Diabetes During Pregnancy: What is Gestational Diabetes?: Learn more about gestational diabetes, and how you you can keep things under control.
13. Gestational Hypertension and Preeclampsia: A look at some of issues related to high blood pressure, and how it can affect your pregnancy.
14. Toxoplasmosis: A look at how the way you interact with animals can affect your pregnancy.
15. High Risk Pregnancy: An overview of some of the high risk issues that can come with pregnancy.
16. Managing High-Risk Pregnancy: A look at some tips of how to manage a high-risk pregnancy.
17. What are frequent problems during pregnancy? Which ones are “normal”?: A look at frequent problems that can arise during problems.
18. The Risk of High Order Multiples: A look at the risks that can come with multiples birth.
19. Problems with Delivery: This helpful video offers some insights about some of the complications during delivery.

Nutrition

Getting proper nutrition during pregnancy is vital for your health — and for the health of your unborn child. Learn more about proper nutrition with these videos.

20. Pregnancy Nutrition: A look at nutrition during pregnancy, and how you can eat better during pregnancy.
21. Eating Seafood While Pregnant: Get an idea of the issues associated with eating seafood during pregnancy.
22. Safe Food for Pregnancy: Here are some safe foods that you can eat during pregnancy, and the best foods to eat for your health — and your baby’s health.
23. Pregnancy: Foods to Be Cautious With: Watch out for these foods that might cause problems when eaten in large quantities.
24. Foods to Avoid in Pregnancy: Here are some foods you really should not eat while you are pregnant.
25. Eating for a Health Pregnancy: Some great tips on healthy eating during pregnancy, for your sake and the baby’s.
26. Prenatal Vitamins: A helpful look at when to take prenatal vitamins, and what to look for in a good prenatal vitamin.
27. Healthy Pregnancy, Healthy Baby: Health Food Choices: A great video on how health food choices in pregnancy can lead to a healthier baby.

Exercise

You can ensure that you remain healthy and strong throughout pregnancy by exercising appropriately. (Some women can’t exercise due to complications.) Here are some videos that can help you enjoy physical activity during pregnancy.

28. How to exercise while pregnant: This is a helpful video about how to exercise during pregnancy.
29. Pregnancy Tips: How to Exercise During Pregnancy: A look at how to safely exercise during pregnancy.
30. Back Pain during Pregnancy: A brief video that can help you do an exercise that can help ease back pain.
31. Pregnancy Exercise – Warm Up: A great warm up that you can use to warm up before exercising during pregnancy.
32. Workouts To Avoid When Pregnant: Don’t do these things while pregnancy. Make sure you are exercising safely.
33. Prenatal Yoga Exercise with Debra Geymayr: Great video with some prenatal yoga moves that you can do.
34. Exercise and Pregnancy: Learn more about the things you should consider when exercising while pregnant.
35. Prenatal Exercise: A look at some of the exercises you can do while pregnant, without neglecting different areas of the body.

Mind/Spirit

Relieving stress, dealing with emotions, and finding spiritual renewal are often necessary during pregnancy. Here are some things that can help you deal with some of the emotions and stresses that come with pregnancy.

36. Emotions and Pregnancy: Addresses some of the emotions you are likely to feel during pregnancy.
37. Pregnancy Meditation: Learn how to meditate during pregnancy with a little help from this soothing sound.
38. Balance Your Emotions: A helpful look at how you can balance your emotions.
39. Pregnancy Massage Primer with Carole Osborne: Safety concerns associated with massaging a pregnant woman.
40. Prenatal Massage: A helpful look at the benefits of prenatal massage — the importance of having it done properly.
41. Flying During Pregnancy: Things to know about flying during pregnancy, and how you can minimize discomfort.
42. Prenatal Yoga: Meditation & Breathing: Helps you with relaxation and spiritual renewal during pregnancy.

Postpartum

Just because you have given birth, and the pregnancy is over, it doesn’t mean that you don’t need help and good information. Here are a few videos that can help you with what happens post-pregnancy.

43. Postpartum Emotions: Looks at emotions after pregnancy is over.
44. Postpartum Depression: What You Need to Know: A look at what you should understand about postpartum depression.
45. How to Detect the Sympoms of Postpartum Depression: A look at what indicates postpartum depression.
46. Postpartum Depression Prevention: An interesting look at a naturopathic way of preventing postpartum depression. Some parts (eating part of your placenta) are not for the faint of heart, though, and some may not agree with the concepts.
47. Postpartum Depression in Men: Interestingly, men can feel postpartum depression as well. Learn about how it works.
48. Postpartum Exercises: Learn some exercises you can do after pregnancy.
49. Postpartum Recovery Exercises: Simple exercises to help you prepare for more exercise later.
50. Postpartum Yoga with Shiva Rea: Gentle yoga exercises meant to help you recover from giving birth.

Studies (including INTERPHONE)

1. Brain tumor risk in relation to mobile telephone use: results of the INTERPHONE international case — control study: Full text available free from International Journal of Epidemiology.
2. Cell phones and brain tumors: a review including the long-term epidemiological data [PDF]: Is there epidemiological evidence for an association between long-term cell phone usage and a risk of developing brain tumors?
3. Cell Phones and Cancer Risk: The National Cancer Institute offers their take on cell phone hazards.
4. Electromagnetic fields and public health: mobile phones: According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the INTERPHONE data warrants further research.
5. Further aspects on cellular and cordless telephones and brain tumors: This 2003 study covered histopathology verified brain tumors.
6. Heavy mobile users risk cancer: People who use their mobile phones for at least 30 minutes a day for 10 years have a greater risk of developing brain cancer.
7. Industry study shows brain tumor link to heavy mobile phone usage: Another take on the INTERPHONE study.
8. Int’l study cautions cellphone users: “One cannot summarize them in a sentence; it is very complicated.”
9. Mobile Phone Radiation and Health: This Wikipedia entry stays up-to-date and provides links to many health studies.
10. Static in Cellphone Study: “They found that ever having used a cellphone appeared to be protective [against] brain cancer.”
11. Study fails to end debate on cancer, cell phone link: Design flaws of the INTERPHONE study, which is partly industry funded, are covered.
12. Study Reveals How Much Cellphone Radiation You’re Getting: You can look up your phone’s radiation level using the form embedded in this story.

Journalist Perspectives

13. Cell-ing Out Our Health? Investigation of the health effects of ER goes back decades.
14. Could your cell phone be dangerous? Some scientists and public officials are beginning to worry about the long-term effects of cell phone microwave radiation.
15. Focal Point: “Fatal Distraction”: This report states that cell phone use impairs cognitive functions.
16. Long-term use of mobile phones ‘may be linked to cancer’: An Israeli study found heavy users were about 50 per cent more likely to suffer tumors of the parotid salivary gland.
17. Stanford neurologist: Little evidence to link cell phones with cancer: There are a number of reasons to avoid being on a cell phone for hours and hours, Fisher said, “but none that are linked to brain tumors.”
18. Think Twice Before You Place That Call: This article, published by an award-winning Canadian journalist in 2004, discusses cell phone dangers.
19. Wake Up Call: 60 Minutes’ coverage of the cell phone debate with full transcript.
20. Warning: Your Cell Phone May Be Hazardous to Your Health: This 2010 article created a stir.
21. Will This Phone Kill You? This Newsweek article reveals that cell phone science is in chaos, and that test results are murkier than ever.

Electromagnetic Studies and News

22. 4S RANCH: Del Norte High parents to rally against cell towers planned for campus: Parents say the project poses potential health risks for students.
23. Cell Phone Towers Not Tied to Early Childhood Cancers: Results from testing pregnant women.
24. Cold war weapons expert warns Wi-Fi could cause generational birth defects: Warns if left unchecked, generations could face genetic disorders.
25. Electric & Magnetic Fields: This article, with extensive links, covers topics from EMF in the workplace to the International EMF Project.
26. Electromagnetic Filds and Summary of Health Effects: This topic covered by WHO (World Health Organization).
27. Electromagnetic Health: This site contains audio, video and leading media stories about this topic.
28. EM Radiation Research Trust: This site tries to uncover and communicate facts concerning electromagnetic radiation and health.
29. EMF (Electric and Magnetic Fields): Information about these topics provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
30. Epidemiological Evidence for a Health Risk from Mobile Phone Base Stations [PDF]: By searching PubMed, researchers identified a total of only 10 epidemiological studies on mobile phone base stations.
31. Possible effects of Electromagnetic Fields (EMF) on Human Health [PDF]: This 2005 study provides information on this topic, with an extensive bibliography.
32. Radiation Talk: This site covers all forms of radiation exposure, from cell phones to Wi-Fi and mroe.

Other Safety Issues

33. Caller Beware: Smartphones Present Tons of New Security Threats: That new iPhone or Google-powered phone in your pocket could be more valuable to thieves than your wallet.
34. Cell phone pictures could be stalker bait: Some cell phones can share an individuals exact location.
35. Cellphones: This consumer Affairs article lists a few cell phone hazards and reviews dozens of cell phones for readers.
36. Fuelish Pleausures: Snopes debunks stories about fire hazards while fueling the car and talking on a mobile phone.
37. Hacker makes mobile phone snooping affordable: Hacker can build a call-catching system for about 1,500 dollars (US).
38. Outdoor Gadgets Put Visitors, Rangers and Others in Danger: Park Rangers can relay a number of ways cell phones can become dangerous.
39. POINT/COUNTERPOINT [PDF]: The possible association between cell phones and brain tumours is debated.
40. Stop Smart Meters! This site focuses on the PG&E’s Smart Meter in California, a device that emits microwave radiation.
41. Teachers learn about cyberbullying, ‘sexting’: More than 43 percent of children have been victims of cyberbullying, by Internet, cell phone or other digital device.
42. Texting & Driving: A Deadly Duo: Texting accounts for 1.6 million accidents per year.

Recent News

43. Another cell phone crackdown today: California Highway Patrol has a zero-tolerance campaign against motorists talking or texting on cell phones.
44. Canadian Parents Say Wi-Fi in Schools is Making Kids Sick: Parents complain that kids are experiencing health problems.
45. Cell Phones and Brain Tumors: A No-Brainer: Another look at the INTERPHONE data.
46. Health Impacts of Cell Phone Use to Be Explored in Huge New Study: This article touches on a new international study will run for 20-30 years and will follow the health of at least 250,000 participants aged 18-69 in five European countries.
47. Maine lawmaker renews cell phone warning campaign: A Maine lawmaker is redialing her campaign to put warning labels on cell phones.
48. Ontario Teachers Reject Proposed Ban Of Cell Phones, Laptops In Schools: Teachers refuse to be “hypocrites” by banning mobile phones and laptops among their students when they carry and use the same gadgets.
49. Protect your children from cell phone and Wi-Fi radiation before it’s too late: This Canadian perspective offers results of various studies for validity.
50. San Francisco cellphone radiation law raises health issue: San Francisco recently passed the nation’s first local ordinance that requires retailers to post radiation-emission data.

These apps are available at the iPad APP store, or can be downloaded through iTunes.

Pregnancy Tools

1. Baby Pregnancy Tracker (Lite) is a free app that enables you to follow the development of your baby in the first phase of your pregnancy. In this free version you’ll find detailed pictures of the first 10 weeks of your baby’s development. You can also read about what happens to your body, and get advice on the best and safest nutrition for you and your baby.
2. Pregnancy & Baby Development features insightful, inspirational commentary from world-renowned doctor and best-selling author Deepak Chopra, MD, and an array of high-quality videos detailing the biology of pregnancy and infant development. You also have access to helpful tools like a Conception Calendar, Due Date Calculator, and a database of popular baby names.
3. Pregnancy Companion is an inexpensive and comprehensive pregnancy app made for busy moms-to-be who want a doctor’s advice and pregnancy tracking tools at their fingertips. It provides personalized, user-friendly and unique tracking tools, as well as reliable and pertinent medical information and answers to questions that pregnant women most often have.
4. Pregnancy Countdown with Facebook Connect is an impressive set of free pregnancy tools integrated with Facebook. It contains a countdown to the due date, social updates, baby alert, diaper calculator, weekly baby stats, fetus images, pregnancy journal, 55 free baby samples and a special section for pregnancy contacts.
5. Pregnancy Tracker from WhatToExpect.com allows users to track a pregnancy week-by-week and more with this free and easy-to-use app companion to What to Expect When You’re Expecting and WhatToExpect.com.

Pregnancy Health

6. Food Additives is a great app to learn about potentially dangerous or unsafe food additives. This application is perfect for those at risk, the health conscious, soon-to-be parents and pregnant women, vegetarians, vegans and/or people on religious based diets.
7. Food & Nutrition provides information about the energy and nutrients you need to be healthy. Nutrients include proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, minerals and water. Learning to eat nutritiously is not hard. The key is to eat a variety of foods, including vegetables, fruits and whole-grain products.
8. HeartWise Blood Pressure Tracker is the easiest-to-use application for quickly recording and keeping track of your blood pressure, resting heart rate, and weight. Built in visualization quickly shows you trends over time, and detailed analysis and statistics show you how your blood pressure fluctuates on a daily basis.
9. My Health Records is a complete health information tracker to take good care of all your near and dear ones, especially for chronic ailments and short-term health issues such as pregnancy that require monitoring. The Health n Family version linked here lets you store a great variety of medical information conveniently and securely.
10. Pregnancy & Medication Safety Lite is a free app that allows users to check a medication’s Pregnancy Category as determined by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration. Protect your baby by being informed. If you are considering taking any medication during your pregnancy, you should be aware of the risk category assigned to your medication.
11. Pregnancy Health Guide is a free application that discusses the most important topics in pregnancy health. This application is ideal for all medical professionals, medical residents and interns, nurses, medical students, and of course curious lay people who just want to learn more about pregnancy health.
12. Relax Peace is a free app that wants you to leave your stress and worry behind. Close your eyes, put on a headphone, touch this application, put the device to sleep and let your relaxation be at ease.
13. Track Your Weight is an inexpensive app that enables anyone to keep track of weight and to meet health goals. View statistics like Body Mass Index (BMI), average weight change per day and required future weight change per day. This app also is designed for multiple users.

Other Tools

14. Am I Pregnant Quiz SALE is a free app that allows you to take a quick and easy pregnancy quiz and get a personalized answer in no time. Answer just ten short questions and this quiz will evaluate your chances for pregnancy. The pregnancy quiz and FAQ sections were created by Dr. Amy Tuteur, an obstetrician-gynecologist who received her undergraduate degree from Harvard College and her medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine.
15. Baby Center Free is the app to help new mothers track and discover your baby’s development patterns. The Baby Center is designed to help parents track your baby’s feedings, diaper changes, bathing times, sleeping, milestones, growth, vaccines and other important information all in one free app.
16. Baby Names Plus is a fun and inexpensive app that contains over 25,000 names for both genders, and includes detailed information about each name, including pronunciation, meaning, gender, origin and popularity. You can share your choices via email or Twitter and add your own names, too.
17. iMensies allows users to safely store their backed-up data on a desktop computer and restore it later on if there is a need to do so. iMensies also has an updated ‘Help’ page with detailed instructions on how to most efficiently use its great many functions. This app is a “must have” for everything related to periods, woman health, doctor’s appointments, and event planning.
18. In Case of Emergency is a limited and free version that enables you to use your iPad for emergency situations as it supplies ICE 123 capability. It is a simple and useful tool for any pregnant woman or mother to have handy.
19. iPeriod Free is a free app specifically for iPad that contains a visual calendar, which makes it easy for you to view your menstrual cycles at a glance. It comes complete with emoticons, icons symbolizing cramps, love connections, notes, spotting, period days and flow, expected periods, fertile days, ovulation and your personalized symptoms.
20. Woman Calendar is a powerful Fertility Awareness tool for those who try to conceive, avoid pregnancy, schedule special occasions, or make plans around fertility cycles. It can also be used to track menstrual periods to monitor a woman’s physical conditions and schedule activities accordingly.

Proper Nutrition Blogs

These blog can help you learn more about proper nutrition, providing foundational principles for eating healthy, and learning how to make better food choices.

1. Nutrition.gov: The U.S. government offers a helpful site with news headlines and tips on healthy eating.
2. Nutrition Data: This is one of the best blogs out there for information about healthy eating and learning about good nutrition choices.
3. Nutrition Blog: About.com offers a helpful blog on eating and food choices.
4. Nutrition and health eating: The Mayo Clinic offers information on nutritional eating and healthy food.
5. Dina Khader Nutrition: Learn about how you can transform your body and health by making better food choices.
6. The Health Blog: Get a good idea of healthy habits, and how proper eating is tied to health.
7. Balanced Health and Nutrition: RD Rebecca Scritchfield offers a look into a balanced and healthy diet.
8. Healthy Food & Healthy Living: Dr. Ayala takes you on a journey into the world of food, and encourages you to make better choices.
9. Eat This, Not That: A great blog about what not to eat — and what choices are healthier.
10. Dietriffic: Hints on healthy eating, and plenty of ideas that can help you improve your nutrition.
11. Healthy Eating & Nutrition News: Get the latest headlines in eating, food and good nutrition habits.
12. Eat Stop Eat: An interesting blog about the nutritional value of fasting.
13. ASN Blog: The American Society for Nutrition has its own blog, which tackles nutrition issues and offers insight into healthy eating.
14. Cassandra Forsythe: This female fitness and nutrition scientist has good information on eating habits, and includes special information on pregnancy.
15. Integrative Nutrition Blog: Learn more about food, nutrition and how it is related to other areas of life.
16. I Ate a Pie: This is a great blog that reviews truly healthy diet foods to help you get on the right track.
17. Laurel on Health Food: Learn more about healthy eating, healthy foods, and good nutrition.

Healthy Cooking Blogs

Learn more about healthy cooking, and different ways that you can incorporate more healthful foods into your daily diet.

18. Healthy Girl Cooking: Includes the adventures of a healthy girl, addresses some interesting issues in terms of health, and shares some recipes.
19. Stephanie Cooks: Includes helpful product reviews for different cooking tools and ingredients, as well as healthy recipes.
20. Cooking Light: Great information on cooking basics, tips, how-tos, eating smart and healthy living.
21. Tips for Delicious and Healthy Cooking: This blog is full of good tips for healthy cooking, product reviews, and more.
22. George Foreman Healthy Cooking Blog: Yes, it includes the George Foreman Grill type stuff. But it also shares great tips for eating healthy and making nutritious food.
23. The Healthy Cooking Coach: Learn more about cooking healthy, and learn tips from a healthy chef.
24. Cooking with Amy: Thoughts on food, cooking and life. And some recipes, too.
25. What’s Cooking Blog: Interesting insight into cooking, cooking with your kids, and teaching proper nutrition.
26. Healthy Cooking Magazine Editor’s Blog: A great blog from a magazine editor who shares thoughts on cooking and on life.
27. Healthy Cooking Tips’s Blog: Tips on healthy cooking, on where our food comes from, and good recipes.
28. Eating Well: Information on healthy eating, healthy cooking tips and more.
29. Anton Health and Nutrition: Learn about making healthier choices, cooking healthy foods, and find good recipes to try on your own.
30. The Pioneer Woman Cooks: An interesting blog about cooking in the country.
31. Not Another Healthy Recipe Blog: Cooking tips, as well as healthy shopping and eating tips.

Fresh Foods and Natural Cooking Blogs

Learn how to use fresh, natural ingredients in your meals. These blogs and the recipes on them will show you how you can live and eat healthier by getting back to what nature provides for us.

32. Pinch My Salt: Blog that focuses on fresh foods, and cooking with fresh ingredients. Includes amazing food photography.
33. The Ethicurean: A blog about ethical eating, and choosing to eat foods that aren’t as harmful to the environment and animals.
34. We Like It Raw: A look at living a raw foods lifestyle.
35. Goddess of the Garden: This raw food blog looks at what you can do with what comes out of your garden and discusses raw foods.
36. Raw Food, Right Now!: Learn more about raw foods, how to cook them, and how to change your lifestyle.
37. All Foods Natural: Get a handle on natural foods, and using them to cook healthier meals.
38. MyRawFoodBlog: This blog is about the raw food lifestyle, and offers insights into raw food, mindful eating and cooking.
39. Andrea’s easy vegan cooking: Learn vegan cooking skills, and more about the vegan lifestyle.
40. FatFree Vegan Kitchen: Great vegan cooking tips and recipes.
41. I Married an Omnivore!: This vegetarian shares cooking tips — and her adventures as the wife of an omnivore.
42. The Post Punk Kitchen: Interesting posts on cooking for vegetarians and baking for vegans.

Healthy Recipe Blogs

Looking for good recipes for healthy foods? These recipe blogs focus on providing you with meals you can make yourself.

43. Cheap Healthy Good: These are frugal recipes that you can use to make inexpensive and healthy food for your family.
44. Healthy Cooking: A wide range of recipes for different healthy foods, including those for diabetics, gluten free and even healthy foods for those with cancer.
45. unsweetened cocoa: Get a wide variety of healthy recipes.
46. Hell Yeah It’s Vegan!: A blog devoted to vegan recipes for delicious meal.
47. SkinnyTaste.com: Gina offers some great Weight Watcher recipes that are healthy and delicious.
48. Healthy and Easy Recipes: Who knew eating healthy could be so easy? Great recipes that are easy for almost anyone.
49. Just Hungry: Great Japanese recipes for (mostly) healthy eating.
50. Super Healthy Kids: Fun and healthy recipes that will get your kids eating healthy.

Ingesting Foreign Bodies

1. Chicken Bone Syndrome: A soft-tissue neck X-ray revealed the ‘foreign body’ stuck in this man’s trachea, as shown in the Internet Journal of Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine. The patient underwent rigid endoscopy to remove this chicken bone.
2. Eyetec: According to this company, x-rays are good at imaging highly opaque objects such as the metallic foreign body shown in this article by Eyetec.
3. Life in the Fast Lane: Scroll down through various x-rays on this page to view this image of a few bits of cutlery and what seems to be a Swiss Army knife in this person’s body.
4. An Entire Canteen of Cutlery: This MailOnline article goes into the story in depth about this image that shows 78 different spoons and forks in a woman’s body. Surgeons removed the pieces one by one.
5. Oman Medical Journal: In the second case on this page, an eighteen-year-old “morbidly obese” lady was admitted to hospital after swallowing three A4 batteries.
6. A Call in the Night: This New York anesthesiology resident shares an image of a child who swallowed a penny, along with commentary about how a coin looks in various positions within the airways.
7. The Internet Journal of Surgery: This patient was on antidepressant treatment with poor compliance, and — although admitted for a self-inflicted wound — was found to have swallowed fourteen sharp metallic foreign bodies (meaning, nails and washers or nuts).
8. Toothbrush Love: This is one of many radiographic images uploaded by Surfactant at Flickr. In this image, which needs an arrow to point to the toothbrush, the X-ray shows its limitations. The toothbrush probably did not contain metal, and it seems to blend in with the soft tissue in this image.
9. Swallowed Needle Migrates to Liver: A teenage girl was admitted to emergency with complaints of abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting. This X-ray revealed a needle on right hepatic lobe localization, and doctors could not remove it during the first surgery. The needle was removed after it had migrated to the liver, however.

Stabbed with Foreign Bodies

10. Boy Stabbed with 10-Inch Knife: The UK Mirror reported a story about a teenager who was stabbed through the head with a 10-inch knife during a fight over a computer game. The boy walked to the hospital and doctors managed to remove the knife.
11. Boy Stabbed with Butter Knife: Four inches of the blade was lodged between Tyler’s scalp and skull, above his right ear, as seen in this cat scan, when another boy hurled the knife at this eleven-year-old boy. The knife was removed by doctors and Tyler walked away with five stitches.
12. Drill Bit Troubles: Snopes tackled this incident as a topic of urban legend, as it seemed impossible that this man could survive. But, after falling on an 18-inch-long chip auger drill bit, the doctor had a stroke of genius. Instead of cutting the drill bit out, the doctor unscrewed it.
13. Don’t Run with Pencils: Penetrating wounds to the eye constitute up to 50 percent of all traumatic eye injuries. In this case, a four-year-old girl fell on a pencil she held and suffered a left orbitocranial penetrating injury through the superior fornix.
14. Man Survives Nail Gun Incident: Nail guns are dangerous, and have been used as weapons. In this incident, however, the construction worker who fell and received shots to the head from a nail gun recovered from the accident.
15. Toddler with Car Keys in Eye: Don’t leave your keys lying around…your toddler might fall on them and pierce something, just as Nicholas Holderman did at 20 months. One key penetrated his eyelid and deep into his brain. Doctors were able to remove the key during surgery with no brain damage and the tot has recovered with perfect vision.
16. Man with Nail in Head Talks: This news posted at a Denver station reveals a construction worker who used a nail gun that recoiled. He didn’t realize that he shot a nail into his head until he visited his dentist for a toothache and the X-ray revealed a four-inch nail lodged in his skull. His wife is a nurse, and she convinced him to get the X-ray.
17. Luckiest Man Alive: The Australian Herald Sun reported that Shafique el-Fahkri, age 19, was admitted to Royal Melbourne Hospital with the metal chair leg embedded through his head to his neck, where it had partially severed an artery. Nineteen days after admission, he walked away with no brain damage or sight loss.
18. The Michael Hill Incident: While at a friend’s residence in Jacksonville, Florida, Hill answered the door and an unknown person stabbed him in the skull. He then walked down the street to another friend’s house before he had the knife surgically removed. This now-famous X-ray of the knife in Hill’s skull was on display during the grand opening celebration of Ripley’s Believe It Or Not Odditorium in New York.
19. The Case of the Ricochet Watch: A watchmaker sustained an injury to his face at his workplace. He claimed that the base of the wristwatch he was working on with a pick bounced off the table at high speed toward his cheek. Paranasal sinus X-Ray revealed an oval radio opaque foreign body in the left maxillary sinus.
20. Stabbed in Line of Duty: An X-ray reveals that a knife entered just below Army Sgt. Dan Powers’ helmet, above his cheekbone. It also penetrated his cavernous sinus, where a bundle of veins supplied blood to his brain’s right side. But, he survived, thanks to “extraordinary hustle from a string of ground medics, air medics, C-17 pilots, jet refuel technicians and more.”
21. Self-Embedding Syndrome: Known also as self-embedding disorder, this is a practice that includes self-injury and self-inflicted foreign body insertion in adolescents, usually without suicidal intent. Radiologists are in the position to first detect this disorder. Embedded objects include metal needles, metal staples, metal paperclips, glass, wood, plastic, graphite (pencil lead), crayon and stone.

Surgically-Introduced Foreign Bodies

22. Catheter Wire: Fortunately, this case had a sharp crew and a way to immediately address the situation of a broken catheter that had migrated to the right atrium in this 25-day-old infant. This is one of two cases on this site that talk about broken catheters…both which were ‘snared’ and removed without incident from the infants’ bodies.
23. Scissors left in Woman after Surgery: This MSNBC story tells all, and the X-ray tells even more. The woman had part of her colon removed in May 2001, but she continued to suffer intense abdominal pain. The 6.7-inch-long scissors were discovered a year later.
24. Retained Surgical Sponges: Surgical sponges and lap pads are the most frequently retained objects within the patient after a surgical procedure. These objects can result in serious conditions including sepsis, intestinal obstruction, fistula or abscess formation and adhesion.
25. Lance Armstrong’s Screws: These metal objects were purposely inserted into Lance Armstrong’s shoulder to enable a shoulder bone to stabilize after Armstrong fell during a race. The reparation included an almost five-inch steel plate embedded by a dozen one-inch screws.

You want you and your baby to have the best chance possible. This means that it is a good idea to look for quality information about pregnancy. The good news is that there is plenty of free, reliable information online. It is important to realize, though, that no information online can substitute the first-hand knowledge of a competent health professional during pregnancy. You should make sure to consult regularly with your health care professional throughout. But to help you figure out the basics, and come up with the right questions to ask, here are 25 places you can turn for pregnancy answers:

General Information on Pregnancy

These web sites are great places to start when you are looking for comprehensive information about pregnancy. They have plenty of information on pregnancy, and they make good references if you are looking for general answers to most pregnancy questions:

1. Pregnancy Center: This site from WebMD offers information about pregnancy from beginning to end. Read the latest news, find due date calculators and get tips for healthy living while pregnant.
2. Pregnancy: MedlinePlus: The National Institutes of Health offer this resource for pregnancy. Searchable information provides tips on nutrition, fetal development, and news. Learn about the most important things to do during pregnancy.
3. Pregnancy & Childbirth: Learn about development, your body, and how you can stay healthy throughout pregnancy with this site. Includes helpful signs of pregnancy, and tips on a number of other pregnancy related subjects.
4. Pregnancy: This portal from BabyCenter offers a week by week calendar to track development, as well as interesting information on your body’s changes during pregnancy, how to be healthy and even baby names.
5. Pregnancy.org: Read interesting articles, see checklists and get helpful information on what to do about different issues that can arise during pregnancy.
6. What to Expect: Web site for the famous book What to Expect When You’re Expecting. A great resource for a number of articles on pregnancy, as well as issues that are likely to affect you.
7. American Pregnancy Association: Learn about wellness — body, mind and spirit — from this site. Due date calculators, paternity testing, development and information on finding a health professional are all provided on this site.
8. Pregnancy Information: This portal from Parents.com offers guides, news and helpful information on pregnancy, what to expect and other issues that might be of concern.

Pregnancy FAQs

Do you have questions about pregnancy? These frequently asked questions can provide answers so that you can have a little more peace of mind, as well as help you learn more about fetal development at various points during the pregnancy.

9. Pregnancy Stages: MedicineNet.com offers helpful information, answering questions about what happens at each stage of pregnancy.
10. Pregnancy FAQs: This handy FAQ sheet from Discovery Health can provide you with answers to some of the health questions you might have about being pregnant.
11. Pregnancy Precautions: FAQs: KidsHealth provides this helpful look at pregnancy, what happens, and answers common concerns about the condition.
12. FAQ’s About Pregnancy: Dr. Daniel Pesavento, and OB-GYN, offers a look at common questions about pregnancy, including whether or not you can drink caffeine, what to do if you have allergies, and common questions about weight gain.
13. Pregnancy FAQ’s: This list from BabyFit.com offers helpful information related to diet and exercise, helping answer questions about what is safe for you to do while pregnant.
14. High-risk pregnancy: This is provided by faqs.org, and provides insights into what it’s like to have a high-risk pregnancy, and what you can do about it.
15. Natural Remedies during Pregnancy FAQ: Childbirth.org offers this helpful FAQ that provides natural remedies for common pregnancy complaints.
16. FAQ’s: Homebirth: Read up on homebirth if you are interested in the process. This is written by a midwife who specializes in homebirth.

Pregnancy Tips and How-Tos

Learn how to take better care of yourself so that you have a healthy pregnancy with some help from these sites, which offer how-tos and tips on a variety of subjects related to pregnancy.

17. ABC’s…Pregnancy Tips (A-Z): You can get some great tips on having a better, healthier pregnancy from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. These tips show you how to take good care of yourself and your developing baby.
18. Pregnancy Tips: Mama’s Health offers some great tips on pregnancy, as well as information on what questions to ask your health care provider, and tips on how to cope with the changes that come during pregnancy.
19. Parenting tips on pregnancy, newborns, and infants: This site from ParentTime offers some good tips on pregnancy, from shopping for maternity clothes to remedies for common pregnancy related ailments.
20. Pregnancy Dos and Don’ts – The Do’s: These helpful pregnancy tips come from GreatDad.com. The pregnancy tips on this site are designed to provide men with the information they need to help their partners have a healthy pregnancy.
21. Eating Right During Pregnancy: The American Dietetic Association offers this helpful guide on how to eat right during pregnancy. Includes the different nutrients you need, and how to get them, as well as suggestions for the best foods to eat during this time.
22. How to Exercise During Pregnancy: This is a helpful how-to provided by HowStuffWorks. Offers great insight into what you can do to make sure that your physical activity remains safe for your developing fetus.
23. Practicing Yoga During Pregnancy: Learn how to adapt your yoga practice for your condition. Helpful information on prenatal poses, and what to avoid.
24. Pregnancy weight gain: What’s healthy?: The Mayo Clinic offers helpful information on healthy weight gain during pregnancy. Learn how you can promote healthy weight gain while you are pregnant.
25. Preparing for a Natural Birth: This resource provides helpful information that you can use during pregnancy to help you prepare for natural childbirth, if that is the path that you choose.