#maternal-health

#maternal-health

Having a child should be the greatest day of a New Yorkers' life; it was for me. On that day, you should not have to worry about where you're going to take your baby once you leave the hospital. You should not have to worry about whether your child will grow up on the verge of homelessness or in a home. In 2024 alone, over 2,000 babies were born in New York City shelters that's 2,000 too many.

In the lead up to her son's birth, Jacqueline made plans to call 911 for an ambulance to pick her up from her North Florida home and transport her to a hospital about an hour away. The second-time mom and Guatemalan immigrant, who has lived in the country for a decade, would have relied on her husband to drive her to the hospital. But a few months ago he was deported, leaving Jacqueline and her daughter without the family's primary source of income,

Hours after Princess Diana gave birth, she walked out onto the steps of the Lindo Wing, the private maternity ward of St. Mary's Hospital in London, where she was met with photographers from around the world. As she introduced Prince William, then a couple years later, Prince Harry, she looked radiant, with flawless makeup and flowing gowns. It was a portrait of maternal serenity.

A blue, burgundy and white patterned wrapper hides the swell of Joanna Banda's belly. Eight months pregnant, she has had just three of the five antenatal appointments she should have had. She is unlikely to attend her final three either, as she still has to save 3,000 kwacha (1.28) for a bicycle to take her six miles on rutted dirt tracks to the nearest health centre when she goes into labour.

Her story is part of a disturbing rise in pregnant people suddenly being approached by border patrol officers or plain-clothed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. As ICE raids have devastated more families in recent months, immigrant and reproductive rights advocates have raised concerns about the impact of the raids on the reproductive health of those arrested, detained, and forcibly separated from their families.

Results of this study indicate that the association between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and neurodevelopmental disorders is a noncausal association. Birthing parents with higher acetaminophen use differed in many aspects from those with lower use or no use. Results suggested that there was not one single "smoking gun" confounder, but rather that multiple birthing parents' health and sociodemographic characteristics each explained at least part of the apparent association.

She died days later at Toronto's Sunnybrook Hospital, after her body went into septic shock from a Group A Streptococcus infection. Her family believes medical staff at Credit Valley Hospital didn't act quickly enough when Sidhu first presented signs of sepsis even ignoring pleas from the family and that her death may have been preventable if life-saving efforts were made sooner.

Birch, a then 28-year-old emergency dispatcher in Colorado, hadn't gone into labor expecting surgery. She was healthy. Her first pregnancy had been going well, and her full-term baby was positioned face down - an ideal candidate for a vaginal birth. As her contractions grew stronger, a delivery room nurse urged Birch to get an epidural before the hospital anesthesiologist finished his shift. Birch agreed.

Several panel members cited studies that lacked appropriate controls, making it uncertain whether the observed health problems were caused by SSRIs, underlying mood disorders, or other factors.

Sarah Gleeson, from Cork, was shocked when she was diagnosed with gestational diabetes during her first pregnancy seven years ago. 'I've always been health conscious, and we'd been trying to get pregnant for about 10 months, so I was very conscious of my diet,' she says.

A third of women who died during or after pregnancy were known to children's social care services, with a fifth of these deaths being from suicide.

A recent French study found that a specific species of bacteria can improve maternal behavior in stressed rat mothers. The researchers stressed the rats by putting them in the rat equivalent of a crowded subway car. The stressed rat moms neglected their newborns. But when the scientists put Lactobacillus reuteri into their water, normal maternal behavior was restored.

Trump administration's proposals to boost birth rates focus on incentives like a $5,000 baby bonus, ignoring essential support measures like subsidized childcare and paid leave.

Preliminary data from the CDC indicated that the U.S. maternal mortality rate rose in 2024, reversing previous decreases, with 688 pregnancy-related deaths recorded.

But the overall health system in Chad is fragile and many Chadian women don't have access to a safe and sterile place to deliver.

"We don't want to have any reason for hesitation," said Sen. Bryan Hughes (R-Mineola), the measure's primary sponsor who wrote the Texas 'heartbeat' bill banning abortions after six weeks.

"Our women-majority Council has taken the charge to fight maternal mortality and champion maternal health - this requires addressing the longstanding economic and racial disparities that..."