Society guideline links: Postpartum care

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Postpartum infection" and "Society guideline links: Obstetric hemorrhage".)

International

●World Health Organization (WHO): Recommendations on maternal and newborn care for a positive postnatal experience (2022)

●WHO: Recommendations on maternal health (2017)

●WHO: Guideline for iron supplementation in postpartum women (2016)

Canada

●Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC): Guideline on labour, delivery, and postpartum care for people with physical disabilities (2021)

●SOGC: Guideline on pregnancy and maternal obesity part 2: Team planning for delivery and postpartum care (2019)

United States

●American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG): Clinical practice guideline on headaches in pregnancy and postpartum (2022)

●ACOG: Clinical consensus for the pharmacologic stepwise multimodal approach for postpartum pain management (2021)

●ACOG: Committee opinion on access to postpartum sterilization (2021)

●ACOG: Committee opinion on optimizing postpartum care (2018, reaffirmed 2021)

●ACOG: Committee opinion on reproductive health care for incarcerated pregnant, postpartum, and nonpregnant individuals (2021)

●ACOG and Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM): Obstetric care consensus on interpregnancy care (2019, reaffirmed 2021)

●ACOG: Committee opinion on immediate postpartum long-acting reversible contraception (2016, reaffirmed 2020)

●ACOG: Committee opinion on obstetric management of patients with spinal cord injuries (2020)

●ACOG: Committee opinion on physical activity and exercise during pregnancy and the postpartum period (2020)

●US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF): Final recommendation statement on depression in adults: Screening (2016, updated 2020)

●SMFM: Immediate postpartum long-acting reversible contraception for women at high risk for medical complications (2019)

●USPSTF: Final recommendation statement on perinatal depression – Preventive interventions (2019)

●ACOG: Committee opinion on employment considerations during pregnancy and the postpartum period (2018)

●ACOG: Committee opinion on screening for perinatal depression (2018)

●Society of Family Planning (SFP): Guidelines on the postplacental insertion of intrauterine devices (2018)

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Quality standard on postnatal care (2013, updated 2022)

●NICE: Guideline on postnatal care (2021)

●NICE: Clinical guideline on antenatal and postnatal mental health – Clinical management and service guidance (2014, updated 2020)

●NICE: Quality standard on antenatal and postnatal mental health (2016)

Australia-New Zealand

●Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG): Best practice statement on mental health care in the perinatal period (2021)

●Centre of Perinatal Excellence (COPE): Australian Clinical Practice Guideline – Mental health care in the perinatal period (2017)