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Becoming an educated consumer is a parent's number one tool when dealing with a high-risk pregnancy. An informed patient is more confident and better able to advocate on behalf of her baby and her pregnancy. We hope that these articles will be encouraging to you and stimulate you to discuss your situation with your loved ones and health care providers.

As you already know, the information on this website is not a substitute for personal, medical, psychiatric, or psychological advice, and readers are urged to consult their health care providers with specific questions or problems.

If you have an interesting article, story, poem or tidbit to share, please send them to us! Nurses, midwives, physicians and case managers are also encouraged to submit your high-risk pregnancy articles for consideration. Send to sidelines@sidelines.org.

About Sidelines

• With One Voice
• Cooped up Moms Get Help

Preterm Labor

• Warning Signs For Potential Complications During Pregnancy
• Treatments, Tests and Technologies to Delay or Prevent Preterm Birth
• Does Home Uterine Activity Monitoring Have Any Value to Women At Risk for Preterm Delivery?
• Staying In Touch With Your Body
• Braxton Hicks or Preterm Labor?
• Communicating With Your Healthcare Team

Coping and Surviving

• Bringing Your Baby Home from the Hospital
• Newborn Screening Saves Babies
• Newborn Hearing Screening
• My Journey through Gestational Hell:
  Surviving Nine Months of Extreme Morning Sickness
• Some Things To Do For A Mom On Bedrest
• Bed Rest's Silver Lining: Fifteen Benefits of Taking Pregnancy Lying Down
• The Indestructible Pedicure
• Mary Ann's Top Ten List
• Living Through Hospital Bedrest
• The Science of Relaxation

Family Issues

• That's What Friends Are For - this requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.  To download the reader, click here.
• Entertaining Children From Bed Central
• A Guy's Perspective

Clinical Issues and Statistics

• The Company You Keep
• The Clinical Issues Surrounding the Use of Terbutaline Sulfate for Preterm Labor
• Depression During Pregnancy More Common Than Postpartum
• New Gestational Diabetes Guidelines
• Stress Tied to Prematurity

Infertility Issues

• Getting Pregnant and Staying Pregnant:
  Infertility and the High-Risk Pregnancy
• Infertility to Pregnancy: Resolve to Hope
  

• The Most Important Things You Need To Know About A Pre-Term Delivery
• Are You Ready to Start Trying Again?

Pregnancy Loss

• None Yet...An Article About Hope

Funnies To Make You Smile

• High Risk Unit
• Life On Bed Rest