Maternal Health News

Women with polycystic ovary syndrome have a higher likelihood of experiencing infertility and subfertility, which can harm mental health and trigger stress, but not everyone with this disorder will require assisted reproduction to conceive.

Women with Spanish language preferences strongly preferred prenatal care clinicians with the highest level of Spanish language proficiency along with positive clinician-patient interpersonal dynamics, researchers reported.

The number of congenital syphilis-related stillbirths increased annually from 2016 to 2022 in the U.S. while the proportion of cases resulting in stillbirth remained stable, researchers reported in Obstetrics & Gynecology.

CHICAGO — The benefits of AI-assisted technology in medicine are rapidly extending to obstetrics and gynecology, with programs in development or already deployed to predict everything from mode of delivery during labor to cervical cancer risk.

Even one or two cigarettes a day before or during pregnancy can increase the risk for several health complications in newborns, study results published in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health showed.

Women with vs. without disabilities have higher severe maternal morbidity risk during childbirth, with the highest risks observed for women with vision or physical disabilities, researchers reported in O&G Open.

Extending routine donor-recipient matching to include Rhesus c, E and K antigens was tied to lower odds for hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn vs. standard ABO blood type and Rhesus D antigen matching, researchers reported.

Fish oil supplementation during pregnancy was associated with children having a lower or higher risk for developing atopic dermatitis depending on the mother’s genotype, according to a study.

Pregnant women with diabetes can use automated insulin delivery systems with settings optimized to achieve tight glycemic targets, according to two speakers at the Association of Diabetes Care and Education Specialists annual meeting.