News tagged with childbirth

Study: 'Obstetric racism' prevalent in US, fueling rise in questionable labor inductions

Systemic racism is ubiquitous in U.S. labor and delivery rooms and contributing to a sharp rise in medically questionable inductions that could be harming Black and Latina mothers and babies, according to new CU Boulder research.

Mindsets can influence the course of childbirth, finds longitudinal study

Pregnant women's attitudes and mindsets can influence the course of childbirth. This is what psychologists at the University of Bonn established in a longitudinal study with around 300 participants. Women who see childbirth ...

Deaths following childbirth in sub-Saharan Africa have been underestimated

Women in sub-Saharan Africa continue to have an elevated risk of death following childbirth long after the 42-day postpartum limit the WHO uses to define pregnancy-related deaths, a new analysis shows.

More than half of hospital-based maternal deaths occur at times other than childbirth

Hospitalizations that occur in the antenatal period—or during pregnancy, but before giving birth—and those that occur in the postpartum period, made up over half of in-hospital maternal deaths between 2017–2019, a new ...

How do epidurals work? And why is there a global shortage of them?

Diverse nurse workforce linked to better maternal health outcomes in childbirth

A new study at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons provides robust evidence to support diversifying the health care workforce as a remedy for addressing ...

The contraceptive effect of breastfeeding decreases with socio-economic development

While temporary sterility after childbirth lasts on average only a few weeks for a woman who does not breastfeed, it can last for months, or even more than a year, for one who does. But it was unclear how this contraceptive ...

Mindfulness training reduces chance of unnecessary cesareans

A short, group-based mindfulness training for pregnant women and their partners reduces the chance of a medically unnecessary cesarean birth by 50% and doubles the chance of a natural birth. This is the conclusion of UvA ...

1 in 6 families in new study spent more than $5,000 to have a baby

The price tag for giving birth in America may bring some families sticker shock—even for those with private insurance.

Poor maternal heart health results in preterm birth, low birthweight, cesarean birth

With researchers from the University of Massachusetts Boston, James Muchira, a postdoctoral fellow in the Vanderbilt School of Nursing, has confirmed the correlation between poor maternal cardiovascular health and adverse ...