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10 tips can help prevent infections that can harm your baby. Not always know if you have an infection, and sometimes even feel bad. If you believe you have an infection or a risk of contracting, see your doctor.

1. Wash your hands often with soap and water, especially when …

• Use the bathroom
• Prepare and eat foods
• Makes gardening or touches the ground or soil
• Contact with pets
• It is close to sick people
• Take care of children or play with them
• Change diapers

If you do not have water and soap, the hands can be cleaned with a gel-based hand alcohol.

2. Try not share cutlery, cups or food with small children. Wash your hands when you are in continued contact with children. Saliva and urine of them may contain a virus. This virus probably will not hurt children, but can be dangerous for you and the baby is born.

3. Prepare the meat until well cooked. The meat juices should be clear and the meat should be red inside. Do not eat hot dogs (hot dogs), cold cuts or deli meats, unless they are heated to high temperatures. These little cooked and processed meats can contain harmful bacteria.

4. Avoid consuming unpasteurized milk (raw) and the food derived from it. Do not eat soft cheeses such as feta and brie, and quash fresco, unless the labels say they have been pasteurized. Non-pasteurized products may contain harmful bacteria.

5. Do not touch or clean the dirty litter box for cats. Ask someone to do so. If you have to change the litter box, make sure to wear gloves and wash their hands after doing so. The boxes of dirty sand may have harmful parasites.

6. Stay away from wild or domestic rodents and their droppings. Hire a professional exterminator to eliminate harmful insects and rodents within and outside the house. If you have a rodent as a pet, for a hamster or a guinea pig of India, ask someone else to take care until after the baby is born. Some rodents may be carriers of harmful viruses.

7. Become testing sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including HIV and hepatitis B, and protect against these diseases. Some people who have HIV, hepatitis B or an STD do not feel sick. It is important to know if you have one of these diseases. If you have one of these diseases, ask your doctor about ways to reduce the possibility that the disease affects her baby.

8. Talk to your doctor about vaccinations (shots). There are vaccines that are recommended before pregnancy, during or just after birth. Apply the appropriate vaccinations at the right time can help you stay healthy and prevent your baby is sick or has health problems for life.

9. Avoid contact with people who have infections. Stay away from people with infections such as chickenpox or rubella, if you have not had these diseases or not vaccinated against these before pregnancy.

10. Ask your doctor about the group B streptococcus Nearly 1 in 4 women carry this type of bacteria, but do not feel bad. A simple test that involves taking a sample of the vagina and rectum with a swab at the end of pregnancy will reveal whether you have this type of bacteria. If you have group B strep, talk to your doctor about how to protect your baby during childbirth.