Pregnant Women

Messages about safety and how vaccines protect infants motivate pregnant women to get immunized, especially when they are delivered by trusted health care workers, according to a survey published in Women’s Health Issues.

Most pregnant women who believed they had a penicillin allergy were not allergic and tolerated penicillin during labor, according to results of a retrospective study.

A study in Brazil suggested that vaccinating women earlier in the influenza season could improve birth outcomes.

Studies used to determine nutritional recommendations in the U.S. and Canada often lack women, including those who are pregnant, according to findings published in Science Advances.

Mortality rates due to all causes and drug or alcohol poisoning significantly increased among recently pregnant women in the U.S. from 2015 to 2019, according to findings published in JAMA.

Increased physical activity before and during fertility treatment was associated with improved metabolic measures but did not impact birth outcomes among women with obesity, researchers reported.

Pregnant women who had symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection were more likely than those with asymptomatic infection to have an emergency delivery, and their infants more often experienced adverse outcomes, a recent study showed.

In an urgent Health Advisory on Sept. 29, the CDC strongly recommended that women who are pregnant, who were recently pregnant, who are trying to conceive or who may become pregnant in the future get vaccinated against COVID-19.

Ferritin testing needs to be a routine part of maternal care and pregnancy health screenings, according to the authors of a study published in Blood Advances.

Data from before the delta variant emerged indicated that the incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection among pregnant women was 1% per week, which is similar to that of the general population of U.S. adults, according to a recent study.