"One in 5 mothers in the United States report being ignored, threatened, forced to accept treatment they didn’t consent to, physically abused or otherwise mistreated by their providers during pregnancy and delivery, according to a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)."
"The extent to which conversation has been silenced is evident from a STAT survey of 100 hospitals — two from each state — asking to speak with physicians about changes in maternal health care since the Dobbs ruling. Only six institutions made physicians available to speak about their work, and five of them were in states where abortion access remains protected."
❤️ Preeclampsia and gestational diabetes can affect the heart health of both mother and child, suggests a new study led by The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.
The study, which included 3,317 mother-child pairs, examined the childrens' BMI, blood pressure, cholesterol, and glucose at ages 10 to 14 using data from the Hyperglycemia and Adverse Pregnancy Outcome (HAPO) study.
“This presents an opportunity for us to intervene early in childhood and recommend healthy changes for the family to help improve their child’s health later in life,” said lead researcher Kartik Venkatesh. https://bit.ly/43CRRHo
The writer does not link to the study, so I looked it up myself.
Despite formulating the definitions differently, all maternal deaths increased from 2018 to 2021, with more significant increases in indirect obstetric deaths and late maternal deaths.
Laws that prevent discrimination related to sexual orientation can play an important role in improving maternal health among White women in general and Black lesbian and bisexual women in particular.
Funding opportunity:
The California Dept of Social Services Office of Child Abuse Prevention is accepting Request for Applications for its Road to Resilience program.
This RFA will award competitive grant funds to partnerships that, through interagency collaboration & integration of services, identify & serve pregnant individuals w known histories of substance use, pregnant individuals w current substance use, & parents/caregivers of substance-exposed infants.
Details: https://www.cdss.ca.gov/inforesources/ocap/grants
Do you know someone in the maternal and child health (MCH) community who has gone above and beyond to positively impact those around them?
AMCHP is accepting nominations for the 2024 AMCHP Annual Awards! The awards will be presented at the AMCHP Annual Conference, April 13-16, 2024, in Oakland, CA.
Leaders, innovators, professionals, youth, and legislators are nominated and selected based on their commitment and contributions to advancing MCH.
NEW research finds maternal COVID-19 infection during pregnancy causally, and substantially, increased the risk of preterm birth—an infant outcome with lifelong consequences for health and socioeconomic well-being.
A crowdsourced competition offered by NIH is seeking new technologies to monitor the health and detect early problems with new babies and their mothers, at the point of care or in the home.
"Giving birth in America continues to get deadlier
It's becoming ever more dangerous to give birth in America, especially for Black women, older women and those living in rural areas, according to a pair of new reports from March of Dimes and Milken Institute.
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Many of the states with the highest mortality rates are ones with poor access to care — and where some of the strictest abortion restrictions are in place."
A digital health company with an app for monitoring maternal health is receiving nearly $1 million to add an algorithm for detecting a dangerous pregnancy complication.