Alcyone Blooms

09/10/2019

https://triblive.com/news/pennsylvania/cdc-awards-pennsylvania-2-25-million-grant-to-study-maternal-mortality/

Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration announced Tuesday it has received a $2.25 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to study the cause of maternal deaths in the state after an increase in recent years. Officials said the state Department of Health will receive the grant over...

07/24/2019

https://whyy.org/articles/midwives-hope-phillys-first-free-standing-birth-center-will-make-inclusive-care-more-accessible/

The Philadelphia Midwife Collective has launched a GoFundMe campaign to open a birth center they hope will make inclusive care more accessible.

06/06/2019

I have always believed that our best access to early intervention for postpartum mood disorders is THROUGH the pediatrician and ultimately benefits that pediatrician's patient.

"The new regulation requires New York insurers to include coverage for maternal depression screenings by both adult and pediatric primary care providers, as well as speedy referrals to treatment specialists.

Insurance policies that cover the child but not the mother must also provide coverage as a "critically important preventative care intervention" for the health of the child, the regulation says."

In just over two months, all health insurance policies in New York will be required to cover screenings for maternal depression.

03/20/2019

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-news/fda-approves-first-postpartum-depression-drug/ar-BBUYGj7?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=iehp

The US Food and Drug Administration announced on Tuesday it has approved the first medication specifically targeted to treat postpartum depression in women. 

03/18/2019

This is the kind of data we needed.

How often do women giving birth at individual hospitals experience heart attacks, seizures, kidney failure, blood transfusions or other potentially deadly problems?

03/11/2019

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/02/20/280199498/doctors-urge-patience-and-longer-labor-to-reduce-c-sections?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social

For many women, a safe, healthy labor lasts longer than the times cited as normal, according to guidelines from the nation's obstetricians. Giving women more time ups the odds of a vaginal delivery.

03/07/2019

https://www.nichd.nih.gov/newsroom/news/022719-delayed-cord-clamping?fbclid=IwAR36z9ElX2sLk8JpSFktB_f9HRZmbNzaSxivhoW6GVlUnSr866OJxyrIiqs

A 5-minute delay in clamping the umbilical cord after birth may benefit an infant’s developing brain, suggests a small study funded by the National Institutes of Health. By 4 months of age, the brains of infants in the study who underwent delayed clamping had more myelin, a brain-insulating materi...

03/04/2019

https://www.romper.com/p/idaho-utah-legalize-breastfeeding-in-public-making-it-legal-in-all-50-states-9860172

Of all of the concerns that I had when it comes to breastfeeding my daughter — her latch, my supply, etc. — someone seeing my b**b was the least of them. But not everyone has that opinion. Just recently, Idaho and Utah legalized breastfeeding in…

08/27/2018

Einstein Montgomery!

Women giving birth at a major suburban hospital will soon have a new option for dealing with labor pains.

07/31/2018

Web word processing, presentations and spreadsheets

04/04/2018

Take home message: Laboring women should eat when hungry.

al data set consisted of all closed medical records for 2,817 women who were admitted to a suburban community hospital in the northeastern United States between January 2008 and December 2012. Some subjects’ records were missing either covariate data or outcomes data, resulting in final sample siz...