HTSP and the First 1000 Days
Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancies (HTSP) is an approach to helping couples time their pregnancies to occur during a mother’s healthiest years (ages 18-34) and space pregnancies by 3 to 5 years, improving both maternal and child health. It explains that the first 1,000 days of a child’s life are measured from conception to age two. The 1,000 days between conception and the child’s second birthday offer an opportunity for the mother to breast-feed, provide healthy foods, and care for the child without having a new baby competing for nutrients.
Source: World Vision International
Date of Publication: March 25, 2019
SIMILIAR RESOURCES
Tools
Examples
- Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancy Fact Sheet
- HTSP 101: Everything You Want to Know About Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancy
- Beyond the ABCs of FTPs: A Deep Dive into Emerging Considerations for First Time Parent Programs
- Connect: Increasing Use of Pospartum Family Planning by First-Time Parents
- Reaching First-Time Parents and Young Married Women for Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancies in Burkina Faso
- HTSP Online Course
- Healthy Timing and Spacing Of Pregnancy: A Trainer’s Reference Guide
- Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancy (HTSP) Online Course
- HTSP Changes Lives
- Training Tools: Providing Family Planning and Reproductive Health to Young Married Women and First-Time Parents in West Africa