Informed Bump is educational information only. It is not medical advice.
It is meant to help you understand pregnancy and prepare for conversations with your own doctor, midwife or care team — never to replace them.
If you think you may be having an emergency, call 911, or go to labor and delivery or the nearest emergency room. Do not wait for, or rely on, anything from Informed Bump.
What Informed Bump is
Informed Bump publishes general educational information about pregnancy, birth and recovery, written by a Maternal-Fetal Medicine Specialist. It is written for a general audience and is based on commonly accepted evidence at the time it was written.
What Informed Bump is not
It is not medical advice, diagnosis or treatment, and it is not a substitute for care from a qualified professional who knows your history.
Reading the website or the emails, subscribing, or replying to an email does not create a doctor–patient relationship with anyone.
It cannot take account of your personal medical history, examinations, test results or circumstances. Information that is right for most people may not be right for you.
Emails are timed to the pregnancy week you tell us. They are not a record of, or a reminder for, any test or appointment in your own care.
Please
Always follow the advice of your own doctor, midwife or care team. If anything here differs from what they have told you, follow them.
Never ignore, delay or change medical care because of something you read here.
If you have a symptom that worries you, contact your care team — even if an email suggests it is common or usually harmless.
Questions and replies
We read replies to our emails, but we cannot give individual medical advice by email, and replies are not monitored for urgent issues. Questions about your own pregnancy belong with your care team.
Accuracy
We work to keep the information accurate and current, but medical knowledge changes and we cannot guarantee that every statement is complete or up to date. Informed Bump is provided “as is”.