Write for Fit Pregnancy and Baby Magazine -- Submission Writers Guidelines

As of the February 2016 issue, American Baby is no more and has merged with Fit Pregnancy to form ...

FIT PREGNANCY AND BABY!

Here are the submission guidelines from their website! 

FIT PREGNANCY  is a website covering health, nutrition, exercise, psychology, food, fashion and beauty issues related to pregnancy. It also includes editorial for parents of babies up to 2 years of age.

Queries should be specific. Read our website and be clear whether you are presenting an idea for a feature or a specific column.

Features (1,000 - 1,800 words) cover broad, timely topics. Features for which we accept freelance writing include:

Prenatal Fitness:
Pregnancy-safe workout programs

You and Your Baby:
• A feature story about postpartum issues.
• A postpartum exercise story (often includes weight loss).
• A story pertaining to breastfeeding issues.
• Baby Pages (baby-care issues, with emphasis on the first six weeks)

Nutrition and Food:
Prenatal nutrition stories, often with a meal plan and recipes

Psychology/Health:
Topics relating to prenatal or postpartum issues

Columns  (550 - 1,000 words) for which we accept freelance writing include the following:

Your Family:
Parenting issues as they relate to the new family, sex and relationships, family and financial issues

Health:
Health issues for the pregnant woman

Healthy Baby:
Health issues for the new baby

Insight:
Psychological issues relating to pregnancy or parenting

Labor & Delivery:
Emphasis on hard news, scientific breakthroughs and practical tips

Nutrition:
Prenatal-nutrition issues

Small Packages:
A section of short, newsy items on all topics covered in the magazine

Bumpalicious (550 words):
A funny or poignant personal essay

Queries should be no more than one page in length. Tell us why your idea is new or particularly important to our readership. Please include experts you might interview, any expertise you may have in this area, other magazines you've written for and recent clips.

Please send your queries to:
Editorial Team, Fit Pregnancy, 805 Third Avenue, 24th Floor, New York, NY 10022

Due to the number of submissions we receive, we respectfully ask that you not follow up on your idea more than once. If interested, an editor will contact you. We keep letters on file for 6 months.

Did you know that you can write one article and sell it again for money to dozens of different magazines all over the world? And yes, the editors know we are doing this. It’s not a secret, just something that's not very well known. Check out my resource with 600 markets! (use promo code PPBLOG20 for 20% off) You can order "TheMother of All Writing Market Books" here.