KeepEmCookin.com - Prevent Preterm Birth

Resources

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Keep ’Em Cookin’ believes in a proactive approach to preventing preterm birth. Learn more about preterm labor and preventing preterm birth through the following resources. Simply click on the links below.

MORE INFORMATION

Irritable Uterus
Doctors have varying opinions on what a woman with an irritable uterus should or should not do to treat the condition. No one knows for sure what causes it and very few studies have been done on how much an irritable uterus is connected to preterm labor and birth. The main purpose of the website Irritable Uterus is to collect and disseminate information to help women dealing with and/or doctors treating and perhaps assisting in preventing irritable uterus.

Preterm Labor and Birth
Information from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

STATISTICS

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Division of Reproductive Health
Promotes optimal reproductive and infant health. CDC scientists and their partners are collaborating with states, university researchers and partners in health care to understand why preterm births occur, and what can be done to prevent prematurity.

March of Dimes: PeriStats
National, state, and local perinatal statistics.

SUPPORT

Keep ’Em Cookin’ Forum
Support is just one click away at the Keep ’Em Cookin’ Forum! Talk with other women experiencing high-risk pregnancies and women on bed rest.

Calming Bed Rest Meditations
Juliet Eccleston is a psychotherapist specializing in enabling calm and gentle births. She has created a visualization exercise just for moms-to-be on bed rest, and just for KeepEmCookin.com. You can download the meditation exercise by clicking the link above. Learn more about having a peaceful pregnancy and relaxed labor at http://birthdownload.com.

Sidelines National Support Network
Sidelines is a 501 c 3 non-profit organization providing international support for women and their families experiencing complicated pregnancies and premature births. Sidelines is committed to providing support, education, and advocacy to women with high-risk pregnancies. Sidelines offers personal e-mail support or phone support. Visit the Sidelines website or call 1.888.447.4754.

Better BedRest
Better BedRest is an advocacy, public awareness and volunteer-driven non-profit whose purpose is to provide support, resources and information to pregnant women who are prescribed bed rest by their physicians or midwives. Better BedRest offers a phone helpline for women on pregnancy bed rest.

March of Dimes
The March of Dimes mission is to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth, and infant mortality. They carry out this mission through research, community services, education, and advocacy to save babies' lives. March of Dimes researchers, volunteers, educators, outreach workers and advocates work together to give all babies a fighting chance against the threats to their health: prematurity, birth defects, and low birthweight.

Sweet Pea Baby Planners
Sweet Pea Baby Planners provides bed rest moms with nursery preparation, personal shopping, and complete in-home support before and after baby arrives. Click here to locate a personal baby planner in Charlotte, NC; Denver, CO; Fort Collins, CO; Dallas; Los Angeles; New York City; or Palm Beach, FL.

Hand to Hold
Hand to Hold provides ongoing support, education and resources to parents, and serves to fill the service gap that currently exists for families who have had a child in the NICU or who experienced a loss. By providing a holistic approach to preemie care in partnership with leaders in the field of prematurity and child health and development, Hand to Hold has the power to improve the lives of parents of preemies, babies born with special health care needs and those that experience a loss due to these challenges. All support services are provided at no charge.

Pregnancy After Preemie
Melissa delivered her daughter at 24 weeks. While pregnant with her son, Melissa created Pregnancy After Preemie to document and share her fight against preterm birth. She did everything possible to stay pregnant: transabdominal cerclage, oral Prometrium, Alpha-Hydroxy Progesterone Injections, Procardia, Terbutaline, pelvic rest, no exercise, and a lot of monitoring! Now she runs The Preemie Life, which provides parents with support and resources for life after the NICU.

Postpartum Progress
Postpartum Progress is a blog about postpartum depression and related illnesses intended to provide hope and comfort to the women who suffer, as well as the people who care for them family, friends, health care providers. It features news and research, a list of support groups around the country, stories from moms and fellow sufferers and links to major support organizations and treatment programs.