Our first pregnancy loss blindsided me. I’d known miscarriages happened but was firmly in the “bad things happen to other people” frame of mind. I didn’t know then that first-trimester miscarriages are fairly common — though …
Brianna Henderson remembers staring at a doctor in shock as he told her that she was in heart failure. Her condition was called peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM), he explained, a unique …
In a long-awaited announcement on Monday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the use of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 mRNA vaccine in adolescents aged 12 to 15. The Centers for Disease Control …
It is important to recognize that preterm deliveries, even if late preterm, should never be done for the convenience of the mother or obstetrician. Research has shown that late preterm …
WASHINGTON (ABC7) — Right now, another look at maternal health disparities and ways to eliminate the gap. There’s a crowdsourcing research project to help empower pregnant women and also study maternal …
Preterm birth is a leading cause of infant mortality and morbidity in the U.S. And troubling, recent data show that U.S. preterm birth rates have risen for the fourth consecutive year. …
Many take it for granted that babies are conceived, carried and born without a problem, that in America and Kansas a child readily survives to their first birthday without illness, …
Breastfeeding is widely regarded as optimal infant nutrition and considered a public health imperative in the United States and around the world, due to its associated risk reductions in both …
On September 22, 2018, at 8:02 PM, there was not one, but two hearts that shattered in Labor and Delivery Room 8. My husband held my hand tight as I …
Grief is not linear. It is not a connect-the-dot picture where the end result is clearly comprehensible. Grief is not a map that you easily follow by reaching marked destinations. …
