Maternal Health News

U.S. News & World Report released its 2024 lists of the best maternity care access hospitals and hospitals that were high performing for maternity care, according to a press release from the publication.

Stillbirth was associated with an increased risk for severe maternal morbidity during delivery hospitalization and up to 1 year postpartum, researchers reported in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Children born to women with infertility who utilized assisted reproduction methods had slightly higher risk for autism spectrum disorder, independent of fertility treatment used, according to study results published in JAMA Network Open.

Hormone therapy with transdermal estradiol may benefit bone and CV health and overall quality of life up to 20 years after hysterectomy, according to study results published in Menopause.

COVID-19 caused a surge in premature births in California that “fully disappeared” by 2022, likely because of vaccines, researchers reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

Prenatal vaccination protects infants from COVID-19 up to age 6 months, real-world study findings published in JAMA Network Open suggest. The study found that vaccination prior to pregnancy did not protect babies from the disease.

Energy drink consumption before pregnancy was associated with an increased risk for gestational hypertension, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.

Pregnant women with type 2 diabetes who used continuous glucose monitoring only had improvements in CGM metrics if they used the device more than 50% of the time, according to data published in Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics.

Preterm birth was associated with medical-related work absenteeism, disability claims and indirect costs in the first postpartum year compared with full-term birth, according to study results published in Obstetrics & Gynecology.

About 1% of women who filled an opioid prescription after childbirth had evidence of persistent opioid use in the subsequent postpartum year, researchers reported in Obstetrics & Gynecology.