Planning your pregnancy

Planning before you get pregnant is very important. Simply put, the healthier you are as you are pregnancy planning, the more likely you are to have a healthy baby. We hope you'll start planning for pregnancy as soon as you begin to have thoughts about having a baby.

Pregnancy Planning may help you to:

• conceive more easily
• have a healthier pregnancy
• avoid or minimize pregnancy complications
• give birth to a healthier baby
• recover more quickly and easily after giving birth
• have a more pleasant postpartum (post birthing) experience
• minimize your child's risk of future adult health problems.

By planning your pregnancy, you will know that during this important early stage you were taking the best possible care of yourself and your baby.