/tags/maternal-health Maternal Health en-US Copyright Fri, 25 Oct 2024 17:48:47 GMT /news/2024-10-25/helene-pregnant-women-maternal-health Pregnant and newly postpartum women found themselves displaced by Helene — confronting canceled appointments, reworked birth plans and the loss of their belongings. Fri, 25 Oct 2024 17:48:47 GMT /news/2024-10-25/helene-pregnant-women-maternal-health Rachel Crumpler/NC Health News /health/2024-04-19/emergency-rooms-turned-away-pregnant-women-miscarriage Complaints about pregnant women being turned away from emergency rooms spiked in the months after states began enacting strict abortion laws following the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. Fri, 19 Apr 2024 17:54:13 GMT /health/2024-04-19/emergency-rooms-turned-away-pregnant-women-miscarriage Associated Press /health/2024-02-12/post-roe-v-wade-more-patients-early-prenatal-testing-states-toughen-abortion-laws Doctors in states with strict abortion restrictions say an increasing number of pregnant women are seeking early prenatal testing. They're hoping to detect serious problems while they still have time to choose whether to continue the pregnancy or have an abortion. Mon, 12 Feb 2024 19:26:06 GMT /health/2024-02-12/post-roe-v-wade-more-patients-early-prenatal-testing-states-toughen-abortion-laws Associated Press /health/2023-11-07/nc-increasingly-funds-crisis-pregnancy-centers-advocates-lack-of-accountability-carolina-public-press Centers known for discouraging clients from accessing abortions continue to receive public money, despite media reports of taxpayer funds spent on religious material and what critics call little oversight. Tue, 07 Nov 2023 19:00:56 GMT /health/2023-11-07/nc-increasingly-funds-crisis-pregnancy-centers-advocates-lack-of-accountability-carolina-public-press Grace Vitaglione | Carolina Public Press /health/2023-09-21/nc-4-million-federal-funds-maternal-health The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has provided more than $4 million to North Carolina to help close the gap in maternal mortality rates between Black and white mothers in underserved areas. Thu, 21 Sep 2023 20:52:39 GMT /health/2023-09-21/nc-4-million-federal-funds-maternal-health Sharryse Piggott /race-demographics/2020-12-11/embodied-child-free-not-childless There will be no COVID baby boom in the United States. In fact, a decrease in childbirth is expected, with existential fear prevailing over hormones and… Fri, 11 Dec 2020 17:09:19 GMT /race-demographics/2020-12-11/embodied-child-free-not-childless Grant Holub-Moorman, Anita Rao /health/2020-05-28/embodied-how-covid-19-is-changing-childbirth Pregnancy and postpartum experiences can already be rife with anxiety. But since the beginning of the coronavirus crisis, expectant and new mothers’… Thu, 28 May 2020 15:35:06 GMT /health/2020-05-28/embodied-how-covid-19-is-changing-childbirth Stacia Brown, Anita Rao /show/the-state-of-things/2020-05-28/embodied-how-covid-19-is-changing-childbirth Pregnancy and postpartum experiences can already be rife with anxiety. But since the beginning of the coronavirus crisis, expectant and new mothers’… Thu, 28 May 2020 15:35:06 GMT /show/the-state-of-things/2020-05-28/embodied-how-covid-19-is-changing-childbirth Stacia Brown, Anita Rao /health/2020-02-20/embodied-the-long-drive-to-safe-birth-in-nc Childbearing in the United States is more deadly than in any other developed nation. Despite medical advances over the last few decades, the number of… Thu, 20 Feb 2020 22:17:01 GMT /health/2020-02-20/embodied-the-long-drive-to-safe-birth-in-nc Grant Holub-Moorman, Anita Rao /show/the-state-of-things/2020-02-20/embodied-the-long-drive-to-safe-birth-in-nc Childbearing in the United States is more deadly than in any other developed nation. Despite medical advances over the last few decades, the number of… Thu, 20 Feb 2020 22:17:01 GMT /show/the-state-of-things/2020-02-20/embodied-the-long-drive-to-safe-birth-in-nc Grant Holub-Moorman, Anita Rao