Maternal Health

Living in a New Jersey municipality with less affordable rental housing was associated with higher odds of severe maternal morbidity, according to a cross-sectional study published in JAMA Network Open.

In 2021, the percentage of home births in the United States increased 1.41%, the highest rate of home births since at least 1990, according to data published in the National Vital Statistics Reports.

Pregnant trauma patients admitted to EDs should be screened for intimate partner violence if they have certain injuries, according to data published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

Exposure to cannabis prenatally was associated with adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes, according to a Canadian cohort study published in PLOS ONE.

Even in cases of mild or asymptomatic COVID-19, severe disseminated intravascular coagulation was a possibility for pregnant people, findings from a retrospective case series show.

Mothers with multiple children or with one child aged 4 years or younger participated in less moderate or vigorous physical activity compared with mothers with school-aged children, according to study data.

Changes in state-level availability of reproductive health services — namely closures of Planned Parenthood facilities — were associated with severe maternal morbidity, according to a cross-sectional study published in JAMA Pediatrics.

Antidepressant use in pregnancy was not associated with neurodevelopmental disorders in offspring, according to a cohort study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Women with cardiomyopathy were more likely to experience adverse outcomes such as stillbirth compared with women who had noncardiomyopathy cardiac disease or no cardiac disease, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Receiving a COVID-19 vaccine while pregnant did not increase the risk for peripartum outcomes and may lower the infant’s risk for NICU admission and intrauterine fetal death, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis.