Healthy pregnancies. Safe deliveries. Healthy babies. Healthy futures.

Established in 1997, the What to Expect Project (WTEP) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization founded by Heidi Murkoff, leading maternal health advocate and author of What to Expect When You’re Expecting. WTEP harnesses the power and global reach of the What to Expect brand and mobilizes its community of more than 25 million moms to help bring about positive change, particularly on issues that impact moms and families most. 

Dedicated to educating and empowering moms in need.

Mission

We are dedicated to informing, supporting, and empowering moms in need, in the United States and around the world, so they can expect healthier pregnancies, safer deliveries, healthier babies, and healthier futures. At WTEP, we focus on nurturing the nurturers. 

Vision

We envision a world where all expecting moms receive the vital, empowering information and the responsive, respectful, culturally appropriate, community-specific care and support they need to plan and safely navigate pregnancy, postpartum and beyond. 

Ensuring moms survive one of life’s most challenging experiences

We are committed to empower, protect, sustain, guide, and encourage the world’s most at risk moms – and through trained peer-to-peer support, help them help other moms in their communities. WTEP focuses on ensuring that moms thrive throughout pregnancy and childbirth.

Our Initiatives

Every pregnant mom wants to do what’s best for her baby

We employ the latest evidence-based strategies in the fields of health, education, and communication to train health care providers how to recognize if their patients do not understand health messages, and to provide them tools and training to overcome those obstacles.

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WTEP Team Members

Heidi Murkoff

Founder

Annie G. Toro, JD, MPH

President and Executive Director

Wyatt Murkoff

Sr. Director of Policy and Advocacy

Claire Lorenzetti (she/her)

Sr. Policy and Program Associate

Non-Discrimination Policy:

What To Expect Project does not and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status, in any of its activities or operations. These activities include, but are not limited to, the appointment to and termination from its Board of Directors, hiring and firing of staff or contractors, selection of volunteers, selection of vendors, and providing of services.

What To Expect Project is an equal opportunity employer. We shall not discriminate and will not discriminate in employment, recruitment, Board membership, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status, or for any other discriminatory reason.