Latin American pregnancy game teaches health messages

The Pregnancy Road (El Camino del Embarazo) is the title of a board game aimed at showing players the healthiest and safest way through pregnancy. The game is in Spanish and has been published by the Latin American Center of Perinatology and Human Development (CLAP) in Montevideo, Uruguay. Players of El Camino del Embarazo move through a 40-week pregnancy week by week by shaking dice and picking up information cards according to the squares they land on. The game is intended to be both entertaining and educational. El Camino del Embarazo deals with issues such as regular prenatal checks, consulting the health center in case of problems, keeping a pregnancy record, vaccination against tetanus, eating varied and sufficient food, personal hygiene, sexual relations during pregnancy and the need to abstain from tobacco, alcohol and nonprescribed drugs.