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Massachusetts Health Quality Partners. 2025. 2025 perinatal care guidelines. Brighton, MA: Massachusetts Health Quality Partners, 14 pp.

Annotation: These guidelines offer recommendations for providing perinatal care to pregnant women. They discuss social determinants of health and present recommendations in the following categories: first prenatal visit, each subsequent prenatal visit, second and third trimesters, and 36–42 weeks. Information about the guidelines is included.

Keywords: First pregnancy trimester, Guidelines, Office visits, Oral health, Perinatal care, Pregnant women, Second pregnancy trimester, Third pregnancy trimester

Mitchell AA. 1992. Periconceptional vitamin use and neural tube defects. Arlington, VA: National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health, 3 pp. (Research roundtable summary; no. 1)

Annotation: This paper summarizes a MCHB-funded research project examining whether multi-vitamin use or folate supplements during the first months of pregnancy reduces neural tube birth defects. The project is also considering the effects of excessive vitamin or mineral use in the first months of pregnancy. Mothers of infants with neural tube birth defects and other major birth defects will be interviewed. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Congenital abnormalities, First pregnancy trimester, Folic acid, MCH research, Neural tube defects, Vitamin supplements
   

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