Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Receiving any mental health counseling was tied to a reduced preterm birth risk vs. untreated prenatal ...

Fleishman is an attending neonatologist at Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia who writes about caring for her infant patients and their families. Every day, as I rush to preterm deliveries on the ...

Not all early contractions mean labor. Learn what preterm labor looks like, and when to call your provider to keep you and ...

Preterm birth has lasting effects into adulthood, with very premature individuals struggling to form romantic relationships and having fewer children, according to the Bavarian Longitudinal Study.

A typical human pregnancy lasts 40 weeks, but most parents know this number is only a rough estimate. Babies are born on a seemingly unpredictable timeline, with a normal pregnancy ranging from 38 to ...

States that spent more on social programs tended to have lower rates of preterm birth, especially among infants of Black mothers, a cross-sectional study revealed. Greater total state social ...

When Rupa Basu was pregnant with her second child, her body temperature felt out of control — particularly as her third trimester began in the summer of 2007. It wasn’t particularly hot in Oakland, ...

Gum’s the word — and a new study links chewing the right kind to a decrease in preterm birth and delivery of low-birthweight babies in an impoverished African country. “It surprised us all that such a ...

One in 10 babies in the U.S. – nearly 374,000 infants – were born preterm in 2023, meaning before 37 weeks of pregnancy. More than 15% were very preterm, meaning they were born before 32 weeks. A full ...