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Advice on pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and having visitors during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Fact sheet about smoking cessation during pregnancy and relapse after childbirth in Canada.

Key messages to share with women planning a pregnancy, and pregnant and breastfeeding women.

Preconception health, or health before pregnancy, is the health of men and women during their reproductive years. Your health affects your fertility. It also influences the health of your children, during pregnancy, at birth and throughout their lives.

Number of teen pregnancies and rates per 1,000 females, by pregnancy outcome (live births, induced abortions, or fetal loss), by age groups 15 to 17 years and 18 to 19 years, 1998 to 2000.

Zika virus symptoms and treatment, prevention and risks, risks during pregnancy, what men need to know, and travel recommendations.

Numbers of live births, number of infant deaths and infant mortality rate, by sex, for Canada and Inuit regions.

Components of natural increase, quarterly: births and deaths.

If you missed certain vaccines before or during pregnancy, you should get them after your baby is born. This will lower the chance that you'll get a vaccine-preventable disease and spread it to your baby. This is especially important while your baby is too young to receive certain vaccines.

Number of induced abortions, rates of induced abortions per 1,000 females aged 15 to 44, and ratios of induced abortions per 100 live births, by area of residence of patient (Canada, province or territory, non-residents of Canada, and abortions reported by American states) and by type of facility performing the abortion (hospital or clinic), 1970 to 2006.