Prenatal

Your Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy

In this guide, you will find important facts and questions related to a healthy pregnancy.

They include:

Healthy Parents Healthy Children

A Practical Guide to Pregnancy and Being a Parent
Healthy Parents, Healthy Children is your place to go for current, reliable information based on today’s best knowledge, evidence and practices. Please use the information here for yourself and share it with your family and friends. This site contains general information. For specific questions, please ask your health care provider.
Healthy Parents, Healthy Children has information on pregnancy and parenting. If you think you might be pregnant and want to know the options (parenting, abortion, adoption) available to you, visit the Alberta Health Services Sexual and Reproductive Health page for local resources and supports.

Alberta Health Services

Prenatal Nutrition Tool (PreNut)

The Prenatal Nutrition Tool was developed to support care providers working with pregnant clients. The tool helps to focus conversations on nutrition topics that influence maternal and infant health outcomes. A key component of the tool is the conversation guide that supports care providers to have meaningful client centred conversations with pregnant clients.

The Prenatal Nutrition Tool is not intended to be used as a patient handout. It is also not a screening tool for medical conditions, such as gestational diabetes, or a replacement for an in-depth prenatal nutrition assessment.

Food Safety in Pregnancy: Conversation Cards

A series of pictorial-based nutrition handouts that you can use with pregnant families who may have low English literacy. Look for these handouts under Pregnancy and Breastfeeding on the AHS Nutrition Education page.

Ready or Not

Planning to become pregnant – or not to become pregnant – is a big decision for everyone.

Whether you’re Ready to have a baby or Not, preconception health promotes the steps that all people can take to be healthy now and in the future.

Click Ready or Not to find out more

Best Beginning

Best Beginning is a free supportive health service for pregnant women and pregnant teens who:

Need information and support to make healthy choices during pregnancy
Feel alone and isolated
Face language or cultural barriers
Are living on a low income

We offer:

Support from social workers, nurses, dietitians, and outreach workers
Group health education and peer support
Children's programming (1-6 yrs)
Healthy snacks and time to connect with other pregnant women
Connection to community and health resources

Community and Health Resources

Prenatal Book available in English, Arabic, Chinese (simplified) Farsi, French, Punjabi, Spanish, Tagalog, Urdu, Vietnamese

Dietitians Of Canada - Unlock Food Pregnancy

UnlockFood.ca is a bilingual, award-winning website brought to you by Dietitians of Canada. UnlockFood.ca is here to help Canadians connect with a dietitian and find the nutrition and food information that they need when they need it.
What kind of information is on the UnlockFood website? On UnlockFood.ca, you will find information on nutrition, food and healthy eating, as well as recipes, videos and online tools. There is information on hundreds of topics from A-Z.

The content on UnlockFood.ca focuses on healthy eating throughout the lifecycle (from infants to seniors), nutrition topics of interest, and preventing and managing health conditions.

Popular content includes:
•  diabetes prevention and management,
•  infant feeding and picky eating,
•  digestive concerns,
• heart healthy eating.
• allergies and intolerances

There are also useful resources on eating on a budget, cooking, shopping, menu planning, and more.

Prenatal Resources