A nurse at Naval Hospital Jacksonville’s maternal infant unit in Florida holds a newborn baby. Postpartum sailors will now have 12 months to complete a physical fitness test, rather than nine months. ...
A postpartum doula is a professional trained to work with a new mother through the period after birth. The postpartum period, sometimes called the fourth trimester, is the first 6 weeks after the ...
Pregnant women who aren’t White are more likely to experience symptoms of postpartum depression and less likely to receive mental healthcare for those symptoms, say the results of several single-state ...
SOURCE Authors’ analysis of longitudinal data on 833 pregnant women in Philadelphia during the COVID-19 pandemic collected for the prenatal (time 1) (April 17–July 8, 2020) and postpartum (time 2) ...