Your whole history belongs in heart care
Every Chapter.
One Heart Story.
Your life changes. Your history comes with you.
Bring your history. Leave with a plan.
Periods, pregnancy, changing hormones and emotional well-being belong in the same conversation as blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar. You do not need to have been pregnant to use this guide.
Built around the October 26, 2026 AHA/AAP/ACOG/SMFM Female Life Stage framework. HEART RESERVE’s visit prompts and plan are independent educational tools. Read the sources →
01 / Start where you are
Which chapter of your
Heart Story is this?
Choose a topic, not a diagnosis. Life stages are not fixed age bands. Surgery, medicines and other circumstances can change the picture; your clinician can help.
Your Heart Story
You do not need to know your stage to start.
Bring changes you have noticed, your medicines and your family history. Ask your clinician which details matter for your heart health today.
- Blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar
- Sleep, mood, activity and support
- Period, pregnancy or menopause history, when relevant
Try this question
“Looking at my whole history, what should we review for my heart?”
Put this in my visit plan →Pregnancy history travels with you
During pregnancy.
After birth. Years later.
Pregnancy is a life event within the framework, not a fifth stage. Its history can stay relevant through menopause and beyond.
Your heart health matters whether or not pregnancy is part of your story.
Postpartum & NICU family guide →Before the first period, heart-health habits and routine pediatric care still matter. This guide supports a conversation with your own healthcare team; it does not determine life stage, diagnose a condition or calculate risk.
Prefer a simple checklist to use on paper? Open the Heart Story visit checklist →
02 / Make the next step clear
Leave with a plan
you can use.
Take these questions to the visit. Fill in the next step with your care team. A named clinician and a date make the plan easier to follow.
Before the visit
Your words will be included when you copy, download or print this plan.
My whole history
Looking at my whole history, what should we review for my heart?
Change my chapter or pregnancy topic ↑Bring your medication list, any readings or results you have, and changes in sleep, mood or daily life. Ask for help finding missing records.
Questions prepare the visit. Tests, treatment and timing depend on your clinician’s assessment.
03 / Carry it forward
After the visit, check what happened.
Was the step completed? Were the results reviewed? If something is still unresolved, use the contact in your plan. Bring the updated plan to your next clinician.
Our starting point
Pregnancy history
is heart history.
Lisa’s experience with Peter and Maurice’s fetal surgery and NICU stay is the foundation of HEART RESERVE. The campaign carries that history forward into primary care and midlife.
Meet Lisa and her family →Our next test
A focused pilot. A broader educational home.
The proposed demonstration remains focused on pregnancy history and follow-up. These wider life-stage resources do not expand enrollment, establish a care service or prove improved health outcomes.
In a future agreed pilot, care teams would measure history recorded, patient understanding, and indicated follow-up completed. Paper and phone options, language support and practical access barriers belong in the design.
See the proposed measures →Evidence & attribution · reviewed October 26, 2026
Grounded in guidance.
Made for the conversation.
The Female Life Stage framework was developed by the American Heart Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine. HEART RESERVE’s original presentation and visit tools translate selected concepts into educational prompts.
- The 2026 cardiovascular health compendium — framework, clinical guidance and coordinated care.
- Consensus clinical guidance — stage-aware assessment, pregnancy history and transitions between clinicians.
- AHA patient explanation — periods, pregnancy, mental well-being and menopause.
- Coordinated care, education, research and community partnerships — the proposed care-model pillars.
Independent HEART RESERVE education. No affiliation with or endorsement by these organizations is claimed. This guide has not been clinically validated. Institutional use requires clinical and language review. No personal health information is collected by this guide.