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AGA launched the IBD Parenthood Project to address misperceptions and fears women with inflammatory bowel disease and their health care providers experience throughout all phases of family planning. This patient-directed initiative, which was created by gastroenterologists, maternal-fetal medicine subspecialists and patients, is led by AGA with support from the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation, and patient support network, Girls With Guts.
Health care providers are encouraged to visit the program’s new website, www.IBDParenthoodProject.org, which houses medical facts about IBD and pregnancy and share it with their patients. The website provides answers to common questions and provides a downloadable patient toolkit that features visual and patient-friendly information. Resources include easy-to-digest lists of key questions to ask a provider as women are thinking of becoming pregnant, a flow diagram outlining the various HCPs potentially involved in a woman’s care, a guide to postnatal care and provider locator tools. These tools are a direct response to AGA survey findings that reported women with IBD want more and better information about managing their disease (BabyCenter. 2018. IBD and Preconception, Pregnancy, Early Motherhood).
AGA launched the IBD Parenthood Project to address misperceptions and fears women with inflammatory bowel disease and their health care providers experience throughout all phases of family planning. This patient-directed initiative, which was created by gastroenterologists, maternal-fetal medicine subspecialists and patients, is led by AGA with support from the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation, and patient support network, Girls With Guts.
Health care providers are encouraged to visit the program’s new website, www.IBDParenthoodProject.org, which houses medical facts about IBD and pregnancy and share it with their patients. The website provides answers to common questions and provides a downloadable patient toolkit that features visual and patient-friendly information. Resources include easy-to-digest lists of key questions to ask a provider as women are thinking of becoming pregnant, a flow diagram outlining the various HCPs potentially involved in a woman’s care, a guide to postnatal care and provider locator tools. These tools are a direct response to AGA survey findings that reported women with IBD want more and better information about managing their disease (BabyCenter. 2018. IBD and Preconception, Pregnancy, Early Motherhood).
AGA launched the IBD Parenthood Project to address misperceptions and fears women with inflammatory bowel disease and their health care providers experience throughout all phases of family planning. This patient-directed initiative, which was created by gastroenterologists, maternal-fetal medicine subspecialists and patients, is led by AGA with support from the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation, and patient support network, Girls With Guts.
Health care providers are encouraged to visit the program’s new website, www.IBDParenthoodProject.org, which houses medical facts about IBD and pregnancy and share it with their patients. The website provides answers to common questions and provides a downloadable patient toolkit that features visual and patient-friendly information. Resources include easy-to-digest lists of key questions to ask a provider as women are thinking of becoming pregnant, a flow diagram outlining the various HCPs potentially involved in a woman’s care, a guide to postnatal care and provider locator tools. These tools are a direct response to AGA survey findings that reported women with IBD want more and better information about managing their disease (BabyCenter. 2018. IBD and Preconception, Pregnancy, Early Motherhood).