The Child Care Assistance for Maternal Health Act would increase short-term child care access for mothers and their families during pregnancy, birth and the postpartum period. H.R. 5581 was introduced ...

New parents who receive attentive, supportive nursing care during labor and immediately after childbirth are more likely to exclusively breastfeed their newborn when leaving the hospital, finds a ...

Increased medical risks that require special attention comes as an additional stress in a transformative journey like pregnancy. The key to ensure safety of both mother and child in such cases is ...

Octavia Treadway’s middle son was a drummer before he was born. “He actually started drumming in the womb,” said Treadway, the co-executive director of You’re Carrying Someone Great, a nonprofit that, ...