A nurse at Naval Hospital Jacksonville’s maternal infant unit in Florida holds a newborn baby. Postpartum sailors will now have 12 months to complete a physical fitness test, rather than nine months. ...

The WHO defines postpartum hemorrhage, a major cause of maternal mortality, as blood loss of 500 mL or more in the first 24 hours after birth, and severe postpartum hemorrhage as blood loss of 1,000 ...

LGBTQ+ individuals face significant postpartum healthcare barriers, including higher primary and specialist care use, cost-related nonadherence, and delayed care. Despite similar health insurance ...

Being a new mom can be wonderful and tough at the same time. You’ve got a lot of new challenges -- and a lot less sleep. You may feel emotional and sometimes overwhelmed. What you feel is common. So ...

Share on Pinterest New research has found that moderate-intensity exercise may be beneficial for treating and preventing postpartum depression. Kerkez/GC Images A large study spanning 11 countries ...

Maternal mortality in the U.S. is on the rise and more than half of maternal deaths occur in the postpartum year. A study by Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and the School of ...

Pregnant women who aren’t White are more likely to experience symptoms of postpartum depression and less likely to receive mental healthcare for those symptoms, say the results of several single-state ...

The stresses of an uncertain future and social isolation specific to COVID-19 have intensified the experiences of the postpartum period. The stresses of an uncertain future and social isolation ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Younger women were more likely to never smoke or experience postpartum relapse. White women had the highest ...

This study developed a new tool that improves the efficiency of, and reduces the time spent diagnosing postpartum depression among mothers of preterm babies. Efficiency in diagnosing the pathological ...

Maternal mortality in the United States has more than doubled in the last few decades, with 32.9 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in 2021, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease ...