Learn how to help prevent some of the most common prenatal infections!
Downloadable Resources
We offer many resources for learning about, coping with, and promoting awareness of GBS, including avoiding prenatal infections.
Prenatal Infection Prevention
 First Oral Bacteria Found Linking a Mother and Her Stillborn Baby ScienceDaily (Jan. 22, 2010)
Stop CMV CMV is the most common virus transmitted from mother to unborn child.
Prenatal Infection Prevention poster. February is Prenatal Infection Awareness Month — help prevent prenatal infections!
Prenatal Infection Prevention brochure. "What you need to know about prenatal infections" (text duplicated by kind permission of the March of Dimes.)
Group B Strep
Group B Strep Awareness Brochure, Help Protect Your Baby from Group B Strep (English)
Note: if printing this brochure on your home printer, set it for borderless printing.
Our brochure is also available in Spanish
Visit our ordering page to order brochures as well as our new GBS status cards.
Vaginal Health
Self-Care-Program for pregnant women.
Learn how to help prevent premature births and identify the risk of vaginal infection.
Prof. Erich Saling MD FRCOG, Jürgen Lüthje MD
and Monika Schreiber MD
Institute for Perinatal Medicine, Berlin, Germany
(Translation into English: Amos Grunebaum MD FACOG, Cornell University, New York).
“Indication for use of vaginal pH test in U.S. by women who have normal menstrual periods or who may currently be pregnant.”
PowerPoint presentation by Dr. James C. Caillouette, “A Call to Action: Vaginal pH Level and its Role in Women’s Health and Safety”. This presentation is also available as a PDF.
A prospective study of vaginal pH as a predictor of preterm delivery
A. Jazayeri, H. Arnold, M. K. Jazayeri and W. N. Spellacy
Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine
2002, Vol. 11, No. 1, Pages 30-33
Ob-gyns call for BV screening
Bacterial vaginosis link to early labor is confirmed
Denise Mann, Medical Tribune, Obstetrician and Gynecologist Edition, January 25, 1996, Volume 3, Number 2
2002, Vol. 11, No. 1, Pages 30-33
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