Why this exists, and the standard it holds itself to
Searching for a pregnancy question at 2am gets you one of two bad answers: a content farm that guesses confidently and cites nothing, or an institutional page that is correct but cold, scattered across a dozen PDFs, and written for clinicians.
This is the third thing. Every fact here is traceable to a named authority — WHO, the CDC, ACOG, NIH, ICMR-NIN, the USDA — and it is written in a voice meant to leave you calmer than it found you, without softening anything that matters.
It is free, most of it needs no account, and it is intended to be funded by advertising rather than by selling anything about you.
Belly to Bump was founded by Swet Nisha, a mother who started the site after her own pregnancy and parenting research kept coming up short.
Quote or drop, never invent. Where a source states something, we publish its words and name it. Where a source states nothing, we publish nothing — no estimate, no interpolation, no plausible-sounding filler.
Data is verified against independently known values before it goes out, and those checks are written as tests. That is not decorative: the Indian food tables declare no units and overstated every calorie by 4.184× until it was caught, and the CDC schedule's merged table cells place the MMR vaccine at 2 months instead of 12–15 unless you reconstruct the grid properly. Both errors look completely normal on the page.
Read the full editorial standard — including the four things we refuse to publish and why.
Editorial & researchto be named
Sourcing, verification against published data, and the tests that keep figures from drifting.
Clinical reviewto be named
Review of anything that reads as guidance rather than reference. Until this is filled, we publish no clinical thresholds of our own — only text quoted from a named authority.
We would rather show this section unfinished than put a name or a credential here that has not agreed to it. Until clinical review is named, nothing on this site states a clinical threshold in our own voice — every such number is quoted from an authority and attributed on the page where it appears.
Not medical advice, and not a substitute for the person treating you. It cannot see your situation, your history, or your test results. Where your doctor or midwife differs from anything here, follow them.
If you think something is wrong right now, contact your maternity team or emergency services rather than reading further.
25 datasets is a lot of surface area, and we would rather fix an error than defend it. If something here is wrong, out of date, or reads as advice when it should read as reference, tell us and we will correct it.
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