We have easy-to-use tools and other helpful information and materials available to help men, women, parents and stakeholders with their life and pregnancy choices. Click “Order Materials Here” at the right to access the DSHS Pinnacle Order site and order print versions of these tools and more.
Women
It’s your life. Do you have a plan? Check out the Someday Starts Now Life Planning Tool today. Designed to be easy and fun to use, the tool asks you questions about your health, home life, plans for kids and other key areas of your life. Your answers can help you map out the road ahead.
Get off to a great start
Your First Trimester Checklist gives you a simple, step-by-step guide for ensuring you have a healthy pregnancy and baby.
Planning for the big day
You will have many important decisions to make as you approach delivery – make sure your preferences are clearly stated with Your Birth Plan. Use this plan to write out your plan to help your support team, your partner and your healthcare provider understand your wishes.
What are your health priorities? You want to feel prepared when you visit your healthcare provider and you should leave with clear answers and advice. Your healthcare providers want to know what questions you have. Use the My Health Priorities Worksheet to help your healthcare providers help you.
Know the dangers of drinking alcohol
Learn the myths and facts about consuming alcohol during pregnancy and the long-term effects it could have on your child.
Men
It’s your life. Do you have a plan? Check out the Someday Starts Now Life Planning Tool today. Designed to be easy and fun to use, the tool asks you questions about your health, home life, plans for kids and other key areas of your life. Your answers can help you map out the road ahead.
Feel lost about being a dad? There’s a map for that. Get Maps for New Dads.
Know the dangers of drinking alcohol
There is no safe amount of alcohol your partner can drink while she’s pregnant. Learn the myths and facts about consuming alcohol during pregnancy and the long-term effects it could have on your child.
Parents
Your Birth Plan is designed for parents-to-be. You’ll answer questions about how you want things to go during labor, delivery and recovery. Once complete, the tool will serve as a quick reference guide for you, your support system and your health care provider.
Get off to a great start
Your First Trimester Checklist gives you a simple, step-by-step guide for ensuring you have a healthy pregnancy and baby.
Know the dangers of drinking alcohol
There is no safe amount of alcohol your partner can drink while she’s pregnant. Learn the myths and facts about consuming alcohol during pregnancy and the long-term effects it could have on your child.
Stakeholders & Providers
These toolkits offer a variety of resources for coalitions, health care providers employers and others wishing to promote well-being for their communities, patients and family members.
Preconception Toolkit
Developed for patients who could become pregnant in the coming weeks, months or even years, this toolkit includes:
- Preconception Provider Poster (11×17): Designed for placement in clinic lobbies or waiting rooms to be viewed by women of childbearing age. Text: Right now, you’re improving the health of the baby you may have years from now.
- Waiting Room DVD: Public service announcements from various public health initiatives, including Someday Starts Now, Text4Baby, Breastmilk Counts, Show Your Love and Room to Breathe.
- Life Planning Tool: A four-page questionnaire that challenges women to think ahead and develop a plan for their reproductive health.
- Health Priorities Worksheet: Two-page resource to help female patients remember things to ask during a visit to their physician, such as: How does my family’s history affect me and my future children?
- Frequently Asked Questions: One-page overview of some of the most frequently asked questions related to pregnancy health, such as: If I decide to have a baby, why is it important to get healthy before I get pregnant?
Our Men’s Wellness Checklist and Women’s Wellness Checklist can help start and guide conversations between providers and patients for better health.
This Men’s and Women’s Heath Tips card for Spanish-speaking audiences outlines simple tips for daily wellness.
This Spanish-language poster informs your patients about the wealth of health resources available at AlgunDiaEmpiezaAhora.com.
Pregnancy Toolkit
Designed for patients whose “someday” is starting now, this toolkit includes:
- Prenatal Clinic Poster (11×17): Designed for placement in clinic lobbies or waiting rooms of obstetricians or other providers who care for pregnant women. Text: Right now, you’re helping the health of the baby you’re carrying.
- Birth Plan: Comprehensive three-page questionnaire that helps moms-to-be ensure that their preferences are clearly stated to help providers understand their patients’ wishes.
- Life Planning Tool: A four-page questionnaire that challenges women to think ahead and develop a plan for their reproductive health.
- Frequently Asked Questions: One-page overview of some of the most frequently asked questions related to pregnancy health, such as: If I decide to have a baby, why is it important to get healthy before I get pregnant?
Alcohol and Pregnancy
Myths and Facts explores the common misconceptions about “safe” levels of alcohol consumption during pregnancy and reinforces that drinking alcohol even in small amounts can have lifelong consequences for a child.
The First Trimester Checklist gives your patients a simple, step-by-step guide for ensuring they enjoy healthy pregnancies.
Doula/Lactation Toolkit
Items include:
- Waiting Room DVD: Public service announcements from various public health initiatives, including Someday Starts Now, Text4Baby, Breastmilk Counts, Show Your Love and Room to Breathe.
- Birth Plan: Comprehensive three-page questionnaire that helps moms-to-be ensure that their preferences are clearly stated to help providers understand their patients’ wishes.
- Life Planning Tool: A four-page questionnaire that challenges women to think ahead and develop a plan for their reproductive health.
- Map for New Dads: A 56-page handbook for navigating fatherhood and taking care of a new baby.
- Breast Milk Information: Through a separate initiative from the Department of State Health Services, lactation consultants can also order up to 50 copies per month of a selection of free materials from BreastMilkCounts.com. Browse available materials on the WIC Catalog and send order requests to wicmaterials@dshs.state.tx.us.*
Community Toolkit
Materials to share with the businesses, organizations, media and individuals in your community:
- Life Planning Tool: A four-page questionnaire that challenges women to think ahead and develop a plan for their reproductive health.
- Birth Plan: Comprehensive three-page questionnaire that helps moms-to-be ensure that their preferences are clearly stated to help providers understand their patients’ wishes.
- Someday Starts Now T-Shirts: Available in all sizes, these T-shirts help promote our effort in a wearable way.
- Media Materials: A sample op-ed to send to your local newspaper promoting the Someday Starts Now effort (available in English and Spanish), a press release template to distribute to local media (available in English and Spanish) and how-to tips and proven techniques to conduct outreach to media outlets
In addition to the above items which can be ordered from the Someday Starts Now inventory, you can also download a series of digital materials here:
- “Someday Starts Now” Website Banners (download here to display on your website)
- “Text4Baby” Website Buttons (download here to display on your website)
- “Show Your Love” Website Buttons (download here to display on your website)
- “Show Your Love” Public Service Announcement (download here)
African American Toolkits
Influencers of the African American community can order – free of charge – any or all of these resources:
- Beauty Shop Poster (11×17): Designed for beauty shops with high concentrations of African American customers. Text: What’s said in the shop stays in the stop. So let’s talk about having a baby.
- Barber Shop Poster (11×17): Designed for barber shops with high concentrations of African American customers. Text: What’s said in the shop stays in the shop. So let’s talk about being a great dad.
- Beauty/Barber Shop Tip Cards: Designed for barber or beauty shops with high concentrations of African American customers.
- Beauty/Barber Shop Capes: Capes can be worn for an extra opportunity to showcase Someday Starts Now messaging.
- Life Planning Tool: A four-page questionnaire that challenges women to think ahead and develop a plan for their reproductive health.
- Birth Plan: Comprehensive three-page questionnaire that helps moms-to-be ensure that their preferences are clearly stated to help providers understand their patients’ wishes.
Looking for press information? Download our Media Toolkit.
