The Lindsay Clancy case raises questions about troubling gaps in postpartum psychiatric care, fueling calls for reforms to ...

Many new parents don't get the emotional or medical support they need after giving birth, a third annual "State of Maternal Health" study finds. A single six-week postpartum checkup often isn't enough ...

I gave birth to my first child via a scheduled cesarean section on 10/16 as planned.I was safely discharged from the ...

"Physical therapists were mentioned in the postpartum care guidelines, weren't they?"Hearing this, some PTs might feel ...

Extending Medicaid coverage to 12 months after childbirth increased postpartum health care utilization among women with pregnancy complications such as diabetes and hypertension, according to a new ...

Olivia Walton, who founded Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies America, is using “every tool in the toolbox” to improve maternal health—and called on employers to ramp up their benefits.

Did you know that two-thirds of pregnancy-related deaths occur after delivery? Or that between 43 days and one-year ...

At Fourth Trimester Postnatal Retreat, nurses and doulas care for newborns around the clock, while parents have meals, education, lactation support and time to sleep and adjust to life with a baby.

With the omicron variant forcing hospitals to make difficult decisions once again about what care to provide, Covid-19 must not again defer postpartum care. Postpartum follow-up care is essential ...

Among women with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, abnormal blood pressure at 6 weeks postpartum is linked to a higher ...