Provider Handouts
The Foundation for Women & Girls+ with Blood Disorders seeks to ensure that all women and girls with blood disorders are correctly diagnosed and optimally managed at every life stage.
The Foundation works to achieve this goal through:
Raising awareness and educating the key healthcare practitioners for each particular life stage, including but not limited to, family practice providers, pediatricians, internal medicine physicians, obstetricians, gynecologists, hematologists/oncologists, geriatricians, nurses, and social workers
Translating and disseminating provider information and research
Below are resources available for the healthcare team to utilize with patients.
In collaboration with Hemophilia of Georgia, FWGBD worked with members from the Jeanne M. Lusher Center for Hemostasis and Thrombosis, the WGBD LAN Nursing Subcommittee, and members of the FWGBD Medical Advisory Committee, to develop the following resources for providers to share with their patients to address heavy menstrual bleeding. These pages are offered in both Spanish and English to provide expanded reach to both your patients and their families. All documents have been extensively reviewed to provide the most up-to-date information in an easy-to-absorb format.
About Your Period
This resource serves as a primer for the menstrual cycle. It provides an overview of what to expect, some common questions, and a description of heavy menstrual bleeding.
About Your Period – English
About Your Period – Spanish
Heavy Menstrual Bleeding
A further description of heavy menstrual bleeding. This reiterates the signs and symptoms, shares treatment options, and advice for navigating school.
What is Heavy Menstrual Bleeding? – English
What is Heavy Menstrual Bleeding? – Spanish
Iron Deficiency Anemia
This common condition, especially among those who menstruate – and even more for those who suffer from heavy menstrual bleeding, introduces the condition, symptoms, diagnosis process, and treatment options.
Iron Deficiency – English
Iron Deficiency – Spanish
Menstrual Product Options
There are a great variety of options to absorb menstrual bleeding. This resource provides an overview of these options, what to expect when using the items, and how to maintain personal hygiene when using each option.
Menstrual Product Options – English
Menstrual Product Options – Spanish
Thank you to the Hemophilia of Georgia for providing funding support for this project.
Thank you to the team at the Jeanne M. Lusher Center for Hemostasis and Thrombosis for their assistance in the development of content.
Sickle Cell Disease and Pregnancy
Women with sickle cell disease are at greater risk for developing health problems during pregnancy than women without SCD. In collaboration with the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Society of Hematology, and the Sickle Cell Reproductive Health Education Directive, FWGBD developed the following fact sheets on preconception, prenatal, and postpartum care for women with sickle cell disease (SCD).
- Women with Sickle Cell Disease and Preconception Care
– Fact Sheet Download – English
– Fact Sheet Download – Spanish - Women with Sickle Cell Disease and Prenatal Care
– Fact Sheet Download – English
– Fact Sheet Download – Spanish - Women with Sickle Cell Disease and Postpartum Care
– Fact Sheet Download – English
– Fact Sheet Download – Spanish