Pregnancy
A guide to your care in pregnancy and after your baby is born (A5 leaflet)
This booklet contains information on hepatitis B infection, screening and care in pregnancy and the vaccine which protects babies born to women with hepatitis B.
A healthy baby starts with a healthy pregnancy
If you look after yourself, you give your baby the best possible start in life. This poster promotes the Start 4 Life scheme and tells you how to sign up for regular e-mails or texts for advice and tips on a healthy pregnancy.
Baby Buddy (A3 poster)
Baby buddy is a new app for parents and parents-to-be.
Bump to baby - a short guide to eating well during pregnancy and breastfeeding
This little guide, based on current government advice, covers the basics about eating well during pregnancy. The best people to give more detailed advice are GPS, midwives and dietitians.
Considering abortion?
A leaflet for women with an unplanned pregnancy who are considering abortion.
Folic acid - an essential ingredient for making healthy babies
This leaflet contains information about why a baby needs folic acids as well as how to take folic acid.
Get me out - The Four Walls (leaflet)
Get Me Out The Four Walls offers peer support and informal social meets for parents and carers, living in Norfolk and Suffolk to overcome social isolation.
Go folic!
Doctors recommend that any woman who might get pregnant should take a daily vitamin tablet containing folic acid.
Go folic! (postcard)
Go Folic is a campaign to increase women's awareness of the importance of taking folic acid supplements before getting pregnant.
Go folic! (poster)
This poster highlights the health messages that are being promoted as part of to Go Folic campaign.
Healthy habits for baby and you
A booklet for pregnant women with tips and helpful advice for a healthy, happy baby. Also contains a picture frame for a baby scan photo!
How to protect your baby from RSV (leaflet)
From September 2024, pregnant women can have a free vaccine in each pregnancy, to protect their babies against Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV).
If you could get pregnant, act now to protect against rubella (flyer)
A flyer for women in general but especially those planning pregnancy or already expecting, on protection against rubella (German measles).
Important information for women with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes
Having sex or planning to have sex in the future? This leaflet is for women with diabetes.
It's just a routine check-up (A4 poster)
This campaign seeks to address the barriers that are deterring patients from accessing NHS services. The Maternity campaign phase reminds pregnant women about the importance of attending check-ups, contacting their midwife or maternity team when something doesn’t feel right, and reassures them the NHS is here to see them safely.
It's probably just normal (A4 poster)
This campaign seeks to address the barriers that are deterring patients from accessing NHS services. The Maternity campaign phase reminds pregnant women about the importance of attending check-ups, contacting their midwife or maternity team when something doesn’t feel right, and reassures them the NHS is here to see them safely.
Leave lead out of your tap water
When water leaves the treatment works, it's lead free. But lead can end up in your tap water if it's left standing in old lead pipework around the home. This factsheet tells you how to check for lead and what to do if you find it.
Leave lead out of your tap water (A3 poster)
The latest medical advice suggests that lead is most harmful if excessive levels are allowed to build up in the body. If someone lives in a house built before 1970, chances are it may have lead pipework. Adverse health effects due to lead in drinking water are rare, however people should try to reduce the amount they consume, especially pregnant womena dn young children.
Physical activity for pregnant women (A5 flyer)
This new advice for pregnant women is designed to provide practical help about the types of activities that are safe to do during pregnancy.
Physical activity for pregnant women (poster)
This new advice for pregnant women is designed to provide practical help about the types of activities that are safe to do during pregnancy.
Pitter patter and a natter (A4 poster)
Moving Medicine is a new resource that will improve conversations about physical activity between patients and healthcare professionals.
Pregnant? These vaccines help to protect you, your baby and your pregnancy (leaflet)
This leaflet describes the free vaccinations that help to protect you, your pregnancy and your newborn baby from the complications of infection. It covers information on the flu (influenza), whooping cough (pertussis) and german measles (rubella) vaccines.
Protect your baby from RSV (A3 poster)
Information on respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and the benefits of vaccination for pregnant women and their babies. All women who are at least 28 weeks pregnant (the eligible cohort) on 1 September 2024, will be offered a single dose of the RSV vaccine.
Protect your pregnancy smile (A4 poster)
The Top Tips for Teeth resources are designed for dental professionals to encourage parents and carers to teach children good oral health. A key point to highlight is that cutting down on sugar is important for keeping children's teeth healthy.
Protecting your baby against hepatitis B with the hepatitis B vaccine - leaflet
Information on hepatitis B infection, screening and care in pregnancy and the vaccine which protects babies born to women with hepatitis B.
Scratch here to see if your pipes are lead
When water leaves the treatment works, it's lead free. But lead can end up in your tap water if it's left standing in old lead pipework around the home. This scratchcard tells you how to check for lead and what to do if you find it.
Screening tests for you and your baby
A leaflet explaining the screening choices offered during and after pregnancy.
Think measles - it's not just a kid's problem
This is a poster to encourage health care staff to think about the possibility of measles infection in young people who may have missed their MMR and to remind them to isolate possible cases from immunosuppressed individuals and pregnant women.
Top tips for teeth - children aged 0-3 and pregnant women (leaflet)
The Top Tips for Teeth Leaflet provide top tips for children's oral health, with advice for 0-3 year olds and pregnant women in one leaflet.
Vaccination information for pregnant women (A3 poster)
Having your vaccines is the best way to protect you and your baby from infectious diseases.
Vaccines protect mother and baby (flyer)
This resource is to help encourage awareness and uptake of winter flu and COVID-19 vaccinations to those eligible and their friends and families. You can find out who is eligible for each vaccine at www.nhs.uk/wintervaccinations.
Whooping cough and pregnancy (A3 poster)
This poster should be displayed in GP practices, maternity units and community health care settings. It features: how maternal pertussis vaccination helps to protect babies from whooping cough, and when expectant mothers can have the vaccine.
Whooping cough and pregnancy (leaflet)
The leaflet provides in-depth information on: why the vaccine is needed, how maternal pertussis vaccination helps to protect babies from whooping cough, when expectant mothers can have the vaccine and why this vaccine is so important.