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 ...

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, ...

A recent study led by Stephanie Durfee, University at Buffalo nursing clinical instructor and PhD student, sheds light on persistent challenges rural populations face in accessing prenatal care, a ...

This issue of Health Affairs includes the annual national health expenditure projections from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Several articles focus on rural hospitals, including ...

In an unlikely success story in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, Haiti managed to improve access in the project intervention areas to quality maternal and children health care while ...