This guideline covers the routine antenatal care that women and their babies should receive. It
aims to ensure that pregnant women are offered regular check-ups, information and support. We
have also published a guideline on postnatal care, which covers the topics of emotional attachment
and baby feeding...
This guideline covers the routine postnatal care that women and their babies should receive in the first 8 weeks after the birth. It includes the organisation and delivery of postnatal care, identifying and managing common and serious health problems in women and their babies, how to help parents form st...
In 2018, the World Health Assembly, through resolution WHA71.9 on infant and young child feeding, affirmed that “the protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding contributes substantially to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals on nutrition and health and is a core element of qual...
This guideline covers recognising, assessing and treating mental health problems in women who are
planning to have a baby, are pregnant, or have had a baby or been pregnant in the past year. It
covers depression, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, drug- and alcohol-use disorders and severe
mental illne...
This guideline covers the care that should be offered to women with a twin or triplet pregnancy in addition to the routine care that is offered to all women during pregnancy. It aims to reduce the risk of complications and improve outcomes for women and their babies....
This guideline covers the care of women at increased risk of, or with symptoms and signs of, preterm labour (before 37 weeks), and women having a planned preterm birth. It aims to reduce the risks of preterm birth for the baby and describes treatments to prevent or delay early labour and birth....
This guideline covers care during labour and birth for women who need extra support because they
have a medical condition or complications in their current or previous pregnancy. The guideline also
covers women who have had no antenatal care. It aims to improve experiences and outcomes for
women and thei...
This guideline covers the care that healthy women and their babies should be offered during pregnancy. It aims to ensure that pregnant women are offered regular check-ups, information and support....
This up-to-date, comprehensive and consolidated guideline on essential intrapartum care brings together new and existing WHO recommendations that, when delivered as a package, will ensure good-quality and evidence-based care irrespective of the setting or level of health care. The recommendations present...
A home-based record is a health document used to record the history of health services received by an individual. It is kept in the household, in either paper or electronic format, by the individual or their caregiver and is intended to be integrated into the health information system and complement reco...
