News tagged with postpartum health

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Call the midwife: better health outcomes with birth centers

Birth centers and midwives provide holistic care attentive to the psychological, emotional, and social context of pregnancy, birth and the postpartum period. A new report found that birth centers had…

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Improving women’s health and wellbeing by better understanding postpartum urinary incontinence

Urinary incontinence occurs in 25-30% of mothers at six months postpartum. However, less than a quarter of these women seek care because they may not think anything can be done…

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Putting postpartum care into patients’ hands: using remote technology to prevent maternal morbidity and promote postpartum health equity

In 2017, the number of reported pregnancy-related deaths in the United States increased to 17.3 deaths per 100,000 live births. This number is up from 7.2 deaths per 100,000 live…