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  "slug": "reading-path-planning-a-pregnancy",
  "name": "Reading path: planning a pregnancy",
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  "summary_plain": "A suggested order for reading about planning a pregnancy and the first part of routine care. It starts with preconception care and folic acid, moves to the first antenatal visits and common checks, and ends with gestational diabetes. It is a reading order, not medical advice and not a care plan.",
  "summary_technical": "An editorial sequence of 13 steps over pages on preconception and routine pregnancy care. Each step restates in one line what the linked page covers; the linked pages carry the sources and populations. It links only to records that exist and branches nowhere. It continues into the existing reading path for expectant parents.",
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  "payload": {
    "audience": "People who are thinking about a pregnancy or are in the first weeks of one, and the families and clinicians who want to read about it in order.",
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        "entity": "maternal:preconception-care",
        "explanation": "Before pregnancy. What a provider can help check and change before conceiving: long-term conditions such as diabetes or high blood pressure, folic acid, vaccines, smoking, alcohol and weight."
      },
      {
        "entity": "maternal:folic-acid-supplementation",
        "explanation": "Before and in early pregnancy. A daily folic acid supplement lowers the chance of a neural tube defect in the baby; US guidance covers anyone who could become pregnant."
      },
      {
        "entity": "maternal:neural-tube-defects",
        "explanation": "The condition that folic acid helps prevent: birth defects of the brain or spine that begin in the first month of pregnancy."
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      {
        "entity": "maternal:smoking-cessation-in-pregnancy",
        "explanation": "Stopping smoking before or during pregnancy: what US guidance advises and what is still unclear about medicines."
      },
      {
        "entity": "maternal:prenatal-alcohol-exposure",
        "explanation": "Why health agencies advise no alcohol in pregnancy: no amount of alcohol has been shown to be safe."
      },
      {
        "entity": "maternal:antenatal-care",
        "explanation": "Routine antenatal visits: what they are for and the global model of at least eight contacts."
      },
      {
        "entity": "maternal:prenatal-infection-screening",
        "explanation": "Early blood and urine tests for syphilis, hepatitis B and bacteria in the urine."
      },
      {
        "entity": "maternal:antenatal-iron-supplementation",
        "explanation": "Iron and pregnancy: what the US task force could and could not conclude in 2024."
      },
      {
        "entity": "maternal:physical-activity-in-pregnancy",
        "explanation": "Staying active in pregnancy: what MedlinePlus and a Canadian guideline say."
      },
      {
        "entity": "maternal:gestational-weight-gain-outside-range",
        "explanation": "Weight gain in pregnancy: what a large review found for babies when gain is below or above the range."
      },
      {
        "entity": "maternal:gestational-diabetes",
        "explanation": "Gestational diabetes: what it is and why it is looked for around 24 to 28 weeks."
      },
      {
        "entity": "maternal:gdm-glucose-screening-test",
        "explanation": "The glucose tests, one-step and two-step, and why they label different numbers of women."
      },
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        "explanation": "Treatment of gestational diabetes and what the trials found."
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