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Reply to "Maternal obesity and the role of ACES - a service re-design"

Hello Dr. Larkin,  I love your question!!  In my previous role as a public health nurse, I was perinatal services coordinator for a county of about 500K, with ~5K births per year.  Preconception prevention of maternal obesity was one of our local priority areas.  As my focus shifted more and more towards ACEs and trauma as precursors to maternal health disparities, I started to look a bit more deeply into the interesting intersection of ACEs and maternal obesity.  

Attached are two slide decks - use as you wish - or not!

The first deck shows a variety of journal articles which highlight an association between obesity and ACEs.  As you can tell, I am just starting to pull these together because, like you, I noticed a distinct knowledge gap and I had an assumption that the evidence for ACEs science was emerging, but not yet widely known.  So this deck reflects my early - very rough - work!    

The second deck is something I developed for California WIC Association 2017 statewide conference  - again I wanted to emphasize the intersection between ACEs / trauma and perinatal substance use.  This time - the slides are designed to encourage and empower WIC staff to support these at-risk moms - in a trauma informed way.      

I hope this is useful!  You are really onto something - please share your learnings here on ACN!  I can't wait to read more as your work evolves!  

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