Are you using your iPad to the best advantage during your pregnancy? This list of the top 20 iPad apps (mostly free or reasonably priced for your budget) focuses specifically on pregnancy and pregnancy health, along with tools that are helpful for pre-pregnancy and for new parents. You can track your pregnancy, pick out baby names, monitor your blood pressure and learn how to relax — all with the help of these apps and your iPad.

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.

There is no substitute for eating healthy, and putting good stuff into your body. Whether you are pregnant or not, healthy eating is an important of good health outcomes. You don’t have to be a health professional to know that it is important to eat a good diet. When you eat healthy, you are more likely to feel better, and to avoid a number of sicknesses and diseases. If you are interested in learning more about eating and cooking healthier meals, here are 50 great blogs — some of them are even written by people in health fields.

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.

Do you ever run with pencils, work with 15-inch drill bits or tend to not duck when people hurl butter knives at you? Some of the images listed below may convince you to change your ways. Or, perhaps — as hospital technician — you’ve seen a few images in this list of 25 unbelievable X-ray images that show objects lodged inside the human body. In all cases listed below, the patients recovered nicely, despite some initial doubt.

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.

Pregnancy is an exciting time. But, no matter your education, profession or salary, it can also be a time of uncertainty. Your body is going through a great many changes, and, of course you have a life growing inside of you. As a result, it is perfectly natural to look for whatever information you can find on the subject of pregnancy — especially having a healthy pregnancy.

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.

If you own an iPhone or iPod Touch, you probably have enough spare change for the pregnancy apps floating around on the Internet. But why get nickled-and-dimed beyond your budget for something that you can get for free? We found twenty-five essential iPhone apps for pregnancy that do the same — if not more — than the apps that cost money.

The following apps are listed in alphabetical order within four categories that track your pregnancy progress before, during and after pregnancy. We included calculators, “essentials” for any woman, journals and more that can make your pregnancy (or avoidance of the same) a great experience. Most of the links lead to the Apple stores for downloads. A few links lead to the developer’s page, where you might learn more information than you would at the Apple stores.

Before Pregnancy

1. Baby Gender: Enter the date of birth for both parents and this app computes the range of dates when they should get pregnant to obtain a desired gender for baby.
2. Early Signs of Pregnancy: Gain access to early signs of pregnancy, including tips on how to conceive, pregnancy tests and choices of how to deal with planned and unplanned pregnancy. All information is free, easy to access and private, designed for mobile viewing 24/7.
3. Evernote: Turn your iPhone and/or iPod Touch into a journal that tracks everything that happens in your life. Store phone numbers, photographs and calendars and synch the app to your Mac or Windows desktop. This is a perfect app for expectant mothers and new moms to journal a pregnancy and to store important information.
4. Free Menstrual Calendar: Simply enter your last period and your cycle length to get started. The calendar will then display your predicted period start days as well as your expected ovulation and most fertile days in color.
5. Google Mobile App: Why is this app not an part and parcel of the iPhone? You can search by voice, use tap suggested Web search queries and more with Google Maps, images, news and shopping. This is an essential app for any woman, pregnant or not, and it’s free.
6. MonthlyInfo: MonthlyInfo is a simple tool to help you keep track of your menstrual cycles. Basically, you record each time your period starts, and MonthlyInfo uses your history to generate predictions and statistics about your cycles. You then create and customize reminders which can be sent to your email address or text messaged to your phone.
7. Ovulation Calendar: Calculate the fertile days of the month so you can avoid or achieve pregnancy.

During Pregnancy

8. Baby Namer: Generate baby names for girls or for boys — this app shows popular names for 2010.
9. Maternity – Pregnant? This app provides a resource for expectant mothers to find maternity clothes, baby things and ob/gyns and midwives in your area.
10. Baby’s Coming: Keep track of the progress of your labor with this app. It’s easy to use with a high-contrast background and large buttons. Support for multiple languages now available. This app is free, but any donation goes to help people who fight cruelty against children.
11. Pregnancy Countdown with Social Integration: This hot little app contains an impressive set of pregnancy tools that are integrated with Facebook. Use the due date function, Facebook Connect, social updates, baby alert, diaper calculator and journal — plus so much more — for a total social pregnancy experience. All this for free!

Nutrition

12. 40•30•30: This iPhone app allows you to quickly calculate the percentage of calories in a food from the three macronutrient groups: carbohydrates, protein, and fat.
13. Diet & Food Tracker: Satisfy your doctor, your ob/gyn, your baby, husband and yourself with this app. SparkPeople.com came up with this free app for iPhone users that syncs with an online (free) SparkPeople.com account. Begin working with this app before pregnancy to learn more about food content, nutrition and fitness for life.
14. Fish4Health: Pregnant and nursing women or women who expect to become pregnant can benefit from this app. This app can help women to track mercury intake and optimize healthy fat intake.

Calculators and Counters

15. OBWheel: Simply enter the LMP using a date picker and you’ll receive an estimated delivery date. This pregnancy calculator is fast to load, easy to use and “forever free.”
16. Pregnancy Calculator: This calculator estimates your baby’s due date, ovulation dates, end of your first and second trimesters and more.
17. Pregnancy Kick Counter: This application is designed for woman who are 25 weeks or later in pregnancy. If you detect a change, either a decrease in movement, or an unusual increase in your baby’s level of activity, it may mean your baby is in distress.
18. Pregnancy Tracker: This app, supplied by WhatToExpect.com, keeps track of your baby’s development in the womb. This app goes week-by-week and is a companion to the site.
19. The Wheel: This app is a gestational age calculator for use by physicians and pregnant women to determine when a baby is due and the baby’s gestational age anytime during pregnancy.

Essentials After Baby

20. Baby Health Journal 1.0.2: Track all things “baby” with this app. Record your feelings, baby’s sleep patterns (and yours!) and more, with organization in one place.
21. Lose It! Ok, so you went a bit nuts overeating during your pregnancy. Now, you can lose it with this app, which allows you to set goals and establish a daily calorie budget.
22. Mom Maps: Mom Maps finds kid-friendly spots in San Francisco Bay Area, Philadelphia, New York City, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Portland, Boise, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Albuquerque, as well as newly enhanced support for Seattle and beyond. New areas added constantly.
23. NikeWomen Training Club: You can lose it by watching calories, but working out is a good thing, too. Customize your workout around baby and invite all your friends to join you.
24. WebMD Mobile: Look up symptoms, find drug or treatment information, and learn about basic first aid from this trusted resource.
25. White Noise Lite: Can’t sleep? Try this app, which provides a variety of sounds that can help you nod off. Over 4 million downloads and counting.

Early childhood…ah, the dreams, the play and the toys — and that’s just from the parents’ perspectives. But, if you are concerned about a child who is sick with a chronic disease, who is overweight or who has questionable emotional or mental development, what can you do? This list of the top fifty early childhood blogs deal with those health, wellness and fitness issues, and you may find some answers here.

The following blogs are categorized and each link is listed in alphabetical order by blog title. The sites listed here have been recently and/or frequently updated and are offered from experienced viewpoints.

Research and Psychology

1. BabyShrink: What’s going on inside that cute little head? Ask Dr. Heather, and she may have an answer for you.
2. Center on Media and Child Health: This blog is all about research and news about the effects of media on the health of children and adolescents.
3. Early Childhood: This blog focuses on policy issues and practices in early childhood studies.
4. Early Childhood Brain Insights: This blog focuses on the importance of brain development in the early years, and is of interest to teachers, researchers and parents.
5. Early Childhood Community: These blog posts and discussions center on early childhood professional development.

For Parents

6. Babies Online: This blog is by a parent for parents and features entries on issues from pregnancy to parenting.
7. Babylicious: Babylicious is a blog about a mother’s study of the art and science of parenting and her endeavour to raise a happy, confident and successful person.
8. Babysteps: Nicki provides a positive and informative outlook on parenting issues, including health, wellness and safety.
9. Child Care: Robin is currently the author of six parenting books, with others in the works.
10. Early Years Childcare: This newer blog features all aspects of childcare and early years.
11. News Anchor Mom: Reporting for parents by a parent, this blog provides news articles geared specifically toward children’s health, education and welfare.
12. ParentDish: This link leads to the “Kids” section of this site, where the focus is on kid safety and health.
13. Parenting Squad: Parenting Squad is a community of parents, experts, and authors from all walks of life who offer opinions and views on issues that affect children’s health and happiness.
14. Proud Parenting: This site is a superb resource for anyone who interacts with kids. The link leads to the blogs.
15. Scrub-a-Dub-Tub: The Reading Tub is a nonprofit for children’s literacy, where parents (and teachers) can find news, book reviews and reading ideas.

Health, Fitness and Safety Issues

16. Asthma Mom: Billed as a “survival guide for parenting the breathless,” this blog may provide support and information about young children with asthma.
17. Autism Blog: This blog, written by a parent of a child with autism, approaches this disorder with clarity and sense.
18. Children’s Health Blog: A wide variety of bloggers submit information to this blog about children’s health issues.
19. Children’s Hospital and Health System Blog: This blog approaches a wide variety of health and safety issues.
20. Early Childhood Family Support: This blog is about Special Education law and young children with disabilities.
21. EBD Blog: This UK blog is about emotional and behavioral disorders found in children and youth populations.
22. Family Fitness: A former Marine and his wife and kids show readers how to stay fit and have fun at the same time.
23. Healthy Kids Challenge: This is the blog for the Web site, which is sponsored by Walt Disney World and Cigna, and that focuses on nutrition and exercise.
24. HIKOOL Childcare: This site provides updated medical and health news just for childcare workers and caregivers (including parents and teachers).
25. Kids & Health: Robert Nohle, MD, is chief of pediatrics at Group Health Cooperative, one of the nation’s largest consumer-governed health care systems.
26. My Overweight Child: A super blog filled with tips and stories about how to deal with overweight kids.
27. Safe Mama: Although this blog is focused on parents, the information may prove interesting to anyone interested in child safety, recalls and eco-conscious resources for early childhood rearing.
28. Say Ahhh! The Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families offers a blog about children’s health policy.
29. Thrive: This is the widely-acclaimed blog produced and maintained by Children’s Hospital Boston.

Pediatrician Blogs

30. Blog from a Pediatrician: Dr. Maud answers questions about early childhood physical ailments.
31. Dr. David’s Blog: This blog is a popular one, especially for parents who have children with cancer.
32. Dr. Greene’s Blogs: A variety of pediatric specialists lend their expertise on this blog.
33. Dr. Gwen Is In: This is one pediatrician mom’s two cents on child health, parenting, pop culture and more.
34. Dr. Nabong’s Pediatric Blog: This pediatrician, wife, mother of four active boys, friend, cook, teacher and student for life blogs about early childhood issues.
35. Dr. Sears’ Blog: This pediatrician offers news about kids and about events for kids and their specific diseases on his blog.
36. Pediatrics Blog: Dr. Iannelli provides a frequently updated blog on children’s health and wellness.

Children’s Rights

37. Children: Foreign Policy Blogs offers a site especially for children’s rights.
38. Children’s Human Rights Network Blog: This particular blog, hosted (but not necessarily sharing perspectives) by Amnesty International.
39. Dreamcatchers for Abused Children: The mission behind this site is to educate the public on child abuse signs/symptoms, statistics, intervention, reporting and more.
40. Rainbow Families: The Family Equality Council offer a blog that focuses on the successes and issues in diverse family structures, including families with GLBT kids.
41. Thalamus Center: Dr. Kurylowicz addresses the knowledge and education of human sexuality, gender and sexual orientation in this blog.
42. The Children’s Rights Institute: This site and its accompanying blog and information provides insight into children’s rights on a global scale.

Education

43. Dr. Paticia Vardin: Dr. Vardin is Chair of the Early Childhood Education Department and an Associate Professor at Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in child development and early childhood education.
44. Early Childhood Education: The Keele ECE program is a consecutive education program within the Faculty of Education at York University, focused on early childhood teacher candidates.
45. Excellence in Early Childhood Education: Deborah Stewart, with experience as a teacher, director, curriculum writer and leader in staff professional development, offers this educational blog.
46. HATCH Blog: This blog supports educators for young children and focuses on all phases of early childhood development.
47. Kaplan Early Learning Company Blog: This blog provides teacher and parent resources.
48. Mr. Chuck Chuck: Daniel J. Gulchak, Ph.D. (Mr. Chuck Chuck) is a former classroom teacher for students with emotional and behavioral disorders. He shares classroom tips in this blog.
49. Special Education Law Blog: A fresh look at special education law-mostly in understandable English.
50. Topics in Early Childhood Education: As an early childhood, reading, and literacy consultant for the last decade, John Funk has written on early childhood subjects and products for McGraw Hill and Leap Frog.

Medical technology offers us fascinating insights into the body, and into what is happening inside of us. The use of x-rays is rather commonplace these days, as they are used to see what is inside a person, and help medical professionals work out the best way to solve the problem. You’d be surprised, though, at the bizarre situations that many find themselves in. Here are 25 of the most bizarre — but real — x-rays available:

1. Keys reach infant’s brain: Nicholas Holderman fell on top of some keys as a 17 month old. The keys went through his eyelid, and even penetrated his brain. However, the boy made a complete recovery; his eyeball wasn’t even ruptured as specialists originally thought.
2. Steel balls and magnets in girl’s stomach: Haley Lents, an eight year old girl, swallowed 30 magnets and steel balls from a Magentix set. The x-ray shows the steel balls in her intestines. The magnets reconnected to each other, ripping holes in her intestine. She is lucky to have survived the ordeal.
3. Python swallows electric blanket: A 12 foot Burmese python in Ketchum, Idaho swallowed an entire queen sized electric blanket. The x-rays showed the electrical wires and control box, and surgeons were able to use the x-ray to sort out a strategy to surgically remove the blanket. It is possible to see the cords throughout eight feet of the digestive tract.
4. Dog swallows rubber duck: When a dog swallowed a rubber duck, the x-ray shows the bath toy clearly. Ozzie, a Staffordshire terrier, was fighting with another dog over the toy and inadvertently swallowed it.
5. Soda bottle up the anus: Apparently, thieves in Pakistan are seriously hard core. This x-ray was taken at a hospital in Multan, Pakistan. An elderly man came in an complained that thieves had rammed a soda bottle into his anus and then stolen two buffalo.
6. Toothache caused by nail: Ouch! Patrick Lawler when to his dentist in Littleton, Colorado, complaining of a toothache. He felt the pain was coming from the roof of his mouth — and no wonder: When an x-ray was taken, it showed that there was a four inch nail embedded in his skull, the result of a backfiring nail gun in an accident six days previously.
7. Massive kidney stone: The world’s largest kidney stone was shone in an x-ray previous to its being removed in Hungary. The stone was 17 centimeters in diameter, and weighed two and a half pounds.
8. Bath tap in the eye: Yi Zhou slipped in the bath and impaled himself in the eye. The tap got stuck in there — along with 16 inches of pipework. The x-ray shows the tap embedded fairly solidly in the eye. Worst of all, the patient ended up pulling it out himself, since surgeons were taking too long to send for the plumber.
9. Nail lodged in man’s head: In another case of a nail being lodged unwittingly in a man’s head, doctors in Seoul, South Korea used an x-ray to determine the source of a severe headache. Apparently, the man had had the five centimeter long nail stuck in his head for four years.
10. Five inch knife stuck in teen’s head: This x-ray shows a five inch knife that stuck in a 15 year old’s head as he tried to thwart a robbery. The kitchen knife was plunged into his head. Rather than trying to remove the knife on the scene, he was rushed to the hospital in his current state — which probably accounts for the fact that he survived.
11. Shot in the head with an arrow: Boys will be boys, shooting each other with 16 inch arrows. While playing around with his friend, an 11 year old boy was shot through the eye socket with an arrow. The x-ray shows the arrow going all the way to the back of the skull. Amazingly, he avoided sustaining a brain injury.
12. Cell phone in lower intestine: One of the oldest tricks for smuggling is by inserting it a body cavity. An x-ray shows a cell phone lodged in one man’s lower intestine. Apparently, the man is a member of the Mara Salvatrucha street gang in El Salvador. He is one of four prisoners caught trying to smuggle a number of items this way, including spare chips and a charger.
13. Saint Bernard swallows serrated knife: A six month old Saint Bernard puppy swallowed a 13 inch knife in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She had to endure having the blade stuck between her stomach and esophagus for four days before it was surgically removed.
14. Cobblestones in stomach: An angry Chinese woman swallowed 20 cobblestones during a fight with her boyfriend. The x-ray shows the stones, solidly in place in the stomach. The woman complained that they hadn’t passed as she expected them to, and were instead knocking around in her stomach.
15. Python swallows kitten: This x-ray shows a kitten inside the body of a six foot carpet python. The kitten’s skull was larger than the python, but that didn’t stop the snake. It simply unhinged its jaw in order to swallow the hapless kitty.
16. Python swallows golf balls: It appears that snakes will eat just about anything. Vets assume that a python mistook golf balls for eggs and swallowed them. The four balls can be seen in an x-ray, neatly lined up inside the pythons digestive tract.
17. Swallowing scissors: Kong Lin was using his scissors in place of a toothpick when his friend made him laugh at a funny joke. As a result, he swallowed the scissors, resulting in an amazing x-ray that shows the cutting tool stuck in his throat.
18. Bullet in the head: After headaches dating back from Japanese invasion of China during World War II, Jin Guangying finally went in to see the doctor, tiring of the fact that herbal medicines didn’t seem to help. And no wonder! The x-ray showed that she had a bullet in her brain.
19. Engagement ring in milkshake: As a creative way to propose, Reed Harris hid an engagement ring in a milkshake. However, his girlfriend, Kaitlin Whipple, enjoyed the entire treat without finding the ring — it ended up in her stomach! Whipple didn’t believe she had eaten the ring until she saw the x-ray evidence.
20. 34 nails in the head: This story, unfortunately, has a tragic ending. Chen Liu was found dead in Sydney, Australia. The x-ray showed that he had been shot in the head 34 times with a nail gun.
21. Pencil in the brain: When she was four years old, Margaret Wegner fell on a pencil and it went up her nose. For years, the technology did not exist to remove the pencil, but after an x-ray showed its position, and medical capabilities improved, she has since had most of the pencil removed. Only a small portion remains, which was too grown over with nerves to be taken out.
22. Needles throughout the body: An x-ray revealed that Luo Cuifen had 26 needles embedded throughout her body after she came in complaining that there was urine in her blood. Needles were found in places that affected her brain, lungs, kidneys and other organs. It is assumed her grandparents inserted the needles into her body while she was a baby in an effort to kill her so that a baby boy could be born in accordance with China’s one child policy.
23. Bed spring in stomach: One prisoner ate a bed spring so that he could take a trip to the hospital and get out of jail for a few hours. His perfidy was discovered when an x-ray was taken in response to his complaints of a stomach ache.
24. PVC body part replacements: X-rays taken of a dead body show that some of the parts had been replaced with PVC pipe as part of an illegal harvesting ring.
25. Man smuggling snakes: A man was caught trying to smuggle snakes out of Australia when his bag was screened. The x-ray of the suitcase shows 44 snakes and lizards writhing around, awaiting transport to Thailand.

Early childhood topics often broach some fearful aspects that can affect a child during his or her most vulnerable time in life and throughout that child’s life, such as domestic violence and autism. But, early childhood also can represent a joyful time in life that for a child and his or her parents, teachers and caregivers. Learning about the issues that can alter a child’s life forever is vital, as both harmful and joyful aspects within a child’s early years can affect how that child sees the world as an adult.

While there are no blueprints to becoming a parent, early childhood education is available to anyone who can afford to take the classes. As an alternative, inquisitive parents and caregivers can comb the Web to find reputable, reliable and free information that provides instruction on early childhood issues. The following list, which was gathered from as many diverse sources as possible, represents a sampling of those offerings. The list is divided into categories, and each link is listed alphabetically within those categories by course name. This method shows our readers that we do not favor one open course over another.

Learning and Cognition

1. Early Childhood Development: Early Learning, the Brain and Society: This video lecture focuses on a child’s capacity to learn with a focus on the nature vs. nurture debate [Provost Distinguished Lectures].
2. Early Development: This unit provides a look at the human being in the context of an indvidual life cycle. It also examines some of the processes that contribute to the formation of a new person [The Open University].
3. Early Learning and the Brain: Cognitive development and social understanding in infants and children is the focus of this video [University of Washington].
4. Human Growth and Development: This course follows the development of motor, language or cognitive capacities and skills from the beginning of life to its end [Tufts University].
5. Human Memory and Learning: This course surveys the literature on cognitive and neural organization of human memory and learning [MIT].
6. Individualized Reading Instruction in the Elementary Grades: Explore techniques for assessment of reading and writing skills and learn how to develop strategies for meeting the needs of young students [Open.Michigan].
7. Infant and Early Childhood Cognition: This course provides lecture slides and a complete bibliography that focuses on an introduction to cognitive development [MIT].
8. Knowledge in Everyday Life: This unit focuses on knowledge, learning and thinking of children between ages three and eight [The Open University].
9. Play, Learning and the Brain: This learning module examines the subject of brain-based learning, with a focus on young children [The Open University].

Psychology and Emotional Health

10. Adult Perspectives on Childhood Experience with Domestic Violence: This course focuses on how violence can affect a child through adulthood, with a focus on uxoricide, or the homicide of one parent by the other parent [University of Virginia].
11. Autism Theory and Technology: the Centers for Disease Control identified an estimated one in 150 school-age children as having autism in 2005. This course, developed for 2007, provides a foundation in autism theory and technology that paves the way to develop new technologies [MIT].
12. Childhood Psychological and Emotional Health: Connexions offers a learning module that examines physical and psychological abuse issues [Rice University].
13. Developmental Psychology: This course is a series of lecture podcasts offered by the University of California at Berkeley [Webcast Berkeley].
14. Power of Positive Parenting: This course can provide parents with the skills necessary to raise children well [Utah State University].
15. Psychiatric Epidemiology: Learn more about major mental disorders that occur in childhood and beyond through this course that also examines issues of classification [Johns Hopkins].
16. Psychology of Gender: This course examines the biological as well as social differences that contribute to current understandings of gender differences [MIT].
17. Substance Abuse and the Family: This course examines families that live with substance abusers, and how this abuse affects everyone, even young children. The course also supplies methods and resources for helping such families [UMass Boston].

Physical Health

18. Childhood Obesity: Healthy eating and physical activity are important in childhood development. These choices are influenced by physical environment, including advertising, food industry public relations, parental involvement and more. Learn how to reshape that environment for a healthier child [University at Albany School of Public Health].
19. Don’t Panic! The ABCs of Pediatric Emergencies: Dr. Christine Cho explains how to handle pediatric emergencies and when to go to the hospital [University of California].
20. Health Across the Life Span: Frameworks, Contexts, and Measurements: This course provides an alternative to the disease-based approach to population health, from children to the elderly [Johns Hopkins].
21. Immunization Hesitancy: A Rising Tide that Challenges the Public Health: Learn why societal support for traditional childhood immunization is changing from renowned experts who speak about these changes and their ehtical implications in the advancement of biology and medicine. [ICUIrvine].
22. Pregnancy and Young Children: Learn more about how pregnancy affects young children, including topics on parental smoking, food supplements, breastfeeding issues and much more [Bandolier].
23. Preventing Infant Mortality and Promoting the Health of Women, Infants, and Children: This course discusses the scientific basis for infant mortality and analyzes cuases and consequences [Johns Hopkins].
24. The Impact of Physical Activity and Obesity on Academic Achievement Among Elementary Students: This Connexions study compares the effect of physical activity and obesity on academic achievement. The focus is on children in the third grade [Rice university].
25. WHO Reproductive Health Library: Learn more about studies on newborns through this series of papers and lectures. This list includes the “Kangaroo Mother Care” method to reduce mortality in low-birth-weight infants [World Health Organization].

What does it take to have a healthy pregnancy? If you’re ready for advice, online community support, first-hand experiences and more, then this list of the top fifty blogs for a healthy pregnancy is for you. You can find advice about health, fitness, labor, breastfeeding and advocacy, all designed to help you to stay healthy both physically and mentally through conception and beyond.

The following list is comprised of blogs that have been updated within the past four to six weeks, and they are divided into categories. Each link is listed in alphabetical order within those categories to show that we do not favor one blog over another.

From Conception to Mamahood

1. BabyCenter: This site can take you and your child from conception to high school, so plan to stick around for a few years if you join this community.
2. Fit Pregnancy: Enjoy community and articles on topics such as pregnancy, your baby and your new life.
3. Healthy Moms: This site focuses on providing helpful information, tips and personal experiences about fitness, safety, pregnancy, parenting and a wider variety of women’s issues.
4. Pregnancy & Baby: Learn about news updates and products from the blog, but use the rest of the site for pertinent information on everything from fertility to breastfeeding.
5. The Pregnancy Zone: This community blog tackles the usual pregnancy issues, but also talks about mental and physical health topics.
6. What to Expect: This community blog spot provides first-hand experiences as well as expert advice from preconception to toddlers, all supported by The What to Expect Foundation.

Fertility and Infertility Blogs

7. A Little Pregnant: Read experiences offered by a woman who conceived her son after four rounds of IVF. Along the way, she and her husband experienced an ectopic pregnancy and a miscarriage.
8. FertilityBlogs: Although this is more of a community site, it belongs in this category for its direct focus on fertility and infertility issues.
9. Green Fertility: Just say “no” to the “pharma-medico-industrial-baby complex and discovering the possibilities afforded by focusing on wellness of self and earth” with this blog.
10. Infertility Blog: Dr. Licciardi offers his perspective on this topic from his expertise in this field.
11. Infertility Warrior Blog: Visit this blog for personal experiences, news, celebrities and products related to infertility.
12. Stirrup Queens: If you want a sense of history and personal insight into one woman’s quest for fertility, then make a point to visit this blog.

Pregnancy and Parenting Advice

13. 40 Weeks: This blog is written for women who want a happier and healthier pregnancy.
14. Baby News: This blog delivers “everything but the baby” in an effort to inform new parents about new products from a commercial perspective.
15. Baby Toolkit: Use this blog as a source of parenting tips, tactics and advice on gear from a geek’s perspective.
16. Gagazine: This site began as a tribute from a mom to her son and has grown into a monthly newsletter filled with parenting tips for new parents.
17. More4Kids: This pregnancy section at More4Kids offers health, safety and weight control advice among many other topics that cover the gamut from conception and beyond.
18. Pregnancy Advice: This blog is provided by families.com, a site that focuses on healthy and energized families.
19. Pregnancy Glee: This blog offers information about preconception, pregnancy and parenthood.
20. Safe Mama: SafeMama should serve mothers, fathers and all parents as a resource to find information to help them protect their kids.
21. The Green Baby Guide: Learn the secrets behind a greener pregnancy and parenthood, including insider secrets about cloth diapering, home-blended baby food, and hunting for secondhand gear.

Pregnancy News and Issues

22. Babyfruit: The Miscarriage Blog and Motherhood Diaries: This blog formerly focused on miscarriage, but now has expanded to pregnancy, pumping breast milk, postpartum depression and more.
23. Genetic Testing: Carrie A. Zabel, M.S., C.G.C., offers advice on genetic testing from the Mayo Clinic site. Follow tabs at the top to learn more about genetic testing basics and other resources.
24. National Advocates for Pregnant Women: National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW) seeks to protect the rights and human dignity of all women, particularly pregnant and parenting women and those who are most vulnerable including low income women, women of color, and drug-using women.
25. Postpartum Progress: This blog is aimed at women who suffer from postpartum depression and to the professionals who care for them.
26. Pregnancy Weekly Blog: This blog is an extension of the Pregnancy Weekly journal tool. This blog offers news and insights into pregnancy issues such as smoking, antibiotic usage and more.
27. So, I’m Going to Be a Mom: Learn about one “older” mom’s journey into pregnancy and beyond.
28. The Baby Bump Project: Dr. Meredith Nash’s current research focuses on pregnant body image, celebrity pregnancy and motherhood.
29. The Postpartum Stress Center: This blog focuses on prenatal and postpartum depression/anxiety for women and their families – and for the clinicians who treat them.

Pregnancy Fitness

30. Baby Bump Fitness: Join this fitness trainer as she shares her fitness program – one that she built during her pregnancy and recovery from a difficult delivery.
31. Prenancy Fitness: Learn safe exercises and healthy eating ideas through this pregnancy fitness blog.
32. Prenatal Yoga: Follow this blog, totally devoted to prenatal fitness, if you want to use yoga to stay in shape and to prepare for labor and delivery.
33. Shape up your Bump: Use Vicky Warr’s top prenatal exercise tips for a toned pregnant body.
34. The Nine Month Club: Are you tired of using your brain? Then, switch to using your body as you relieve stress by maintaining a healthy and fit pregnancy.

Labor and Delivery Blogs

35. 10 Centimeters and Beyond: A wife, mother and nurse writes about her journeys through miscarriage, pregnancy and her experiences as a night shift labor and delivery nurse.
36. Hypnobirthing Blog: Katharine Graves is a mother and the teacher at The HypnoBirthing Centre, and holds classes in London and Southern England helping women achieve a more natural and comfortable child birth.
37. PushedBirth: A pushed birth is one that is induced, sped up, and/or heavily medicated, and all too often concludes with surgery, invasive instruments, an episiotomy, or a bad vaginal tear. Learn more about this birthing issue at this blog.
38. Sarahthedoula: Sarah is a birth doula who presents stories about birthing and healthy birth.
39. Stand and Deliver: Although this blog is about pregnancy, birth and mothering, the emphasis is on both planned unassisted births and midwife-attended home births.
40. The Birth Book Blog: Tina Cassidy is a journalist and author of Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born. Her blog reflects that book and her personal life as a mother.
41. The LaborPayne Epistles: A wife, mom, nurse, writer, poet, lactivist and birth activist (all rolled into one package) writers about her healthy delivery advocacy.

Breastfeeding Blogs

42. Best for Babies: BFB is doing for breastfeeding what the 1991 Demi Moore/Vanity Fair cover did for maternity; creating a cultural shift in the way we view and support breastfeeding.
43. Breastfeeding 1-2-3: Blisstree devotes an entire column to breastfeeding, providing tips, news and information about the who, what, when, where, how and why on this topic.
44. Breastfeeding Blog: Although a commercial site for Motherwear’s apparel, this blog has lots of great advice for breastfeeding moms.
45. The Soft Landing: If you would prefer to keep your baby and growing children away from toxins, then this blog can introduce you how to BPA, PVC and Phthtalae-free products for safer eating.

Personal Pregnancy Blogs

46. BellyItch: Visit this blog for updates on colorful babies, pregnancies, tips, celebrities and more.
47. From Dates to Diapers: In addition to being a mom, wife, laundry-hater, dish-washer, and boogie-wiper, Christine loves to connect with other moms, and she offers one venue here on a blog that goes from…well, from dates to diapers.
48. His Boys Can Swim! Jane and Tarzan chronicle their lives before and after the introduction of their new little “monkey.”
49. Mama’s Secret Pregnant Blog: Learn more about this blogger’s three separate pregnancies as she shares her experiences.
50. My Lovely Lady Bump: Visit this blog to learn more about this couple’s healthy pregnancy and new baby.

Being mother is a great feeling, however, the stages during pregnancy requires an utmost care and look after of mother as well as baby. Below is the list of some open course ware with knowledge and learning on taking prenatal care.

Atenatal Care: This open course ware is provided with objective to provide best information on baseline clinical care of pregnancy and antenatal care of a healthy woman with an uncomplicated singleton pregnancy. It gives evidence based information for clinicians and pregnant women to make decisions.

Human Reproductive Biology: This particular open course ware is offered by MIT University to study understanding of the pathophysiology of the menstrual cycle, fertilization, implantation, ovum growth development, differentiation and associated abnormalities. Disorders of fetal development including the principles of teratology and the mechanism of normal and abnormal parturition will be covered as well as the pathophysiology of the breast and disorders of lactation under this course ware.

Assessmenti of Prenatal Risk: This courseware by Edith Cheng, from University of Washington from the department of obstetrics and gynecology, briefs the history and evolution of prenatal diagnosis to its current state with a range of options available to pregnant women.

Avoid Chickenpox in Pregnancy: This particular open course ware highlights the risk and possible cure for chickenpox in pregnant women or in women going through the reproductive age.

Dental Care during Pregnancy: This e-learning tutorial is based upon various aspects of dental care during pregnancy.

Issues related to Prenatal Health: This courseware about prenatal health looks around various important issues of Prenatal Health like diet and nutrition so baby can get all the vitamins, minerals and calories required for a healthy pregnancy.

Ideas for Safer Pregnancy: This courseware provide mother with all the necessary ideas and tips to take care of them before the arrival of the baby.

Taking care of Labor: Under this courseware, through 100 components within seven major topics ideas are given for managing labor.

Perinatal Epidemiology: This courseware emphasize over current research, controversial issues and methodological issues in the epidemiology of reproductive and perinatal health.

Free Pregnancy Book: With advisory from the UK health organizations to take care of various issues during pregnancy this book is provided with a good number of ideas.