Stella Villarmea receives funding from 1) Proyecto «Filosofía del Nacimiento (PHILBIRTH-2) (212AY3D101)», Programa de Excelencia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid /Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid; 2) ...

The Childbirth Experience Questionnaire (CEQ2) was used to investigate how medical interventions influence the individual birth experience. The overall experience was rated positively. In a recent ...

When Caitlin Petrelle delivered her son at Milford Hospital last year, she felt like the most important person at the hospital. "One of the nurses bought my son a little outfit and a toy giraffe," ...

Hospital-based obstetric services have declined significantly, especially in rural areas, affecting maternal and infant health outcomes. The decline in obstetric services coincides with rising ...

Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention demonstrate that Black women in the United States are three times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause than are white women.

The Department of Anesthesiology at Baylor College of Medicine offers one position per year to the 12-month ACGME-accredited Obstetric Anesthesiology Fellowship. Fellows will gain experience in ...

Obstetric fistula is a preventable and treatable condition. Basic medical care for a pregnant woman with immediate attention to any labor pains can help prevent injury and fistula formation during ...

I chose not to have children, yet several communities where I have worked in the Democratic Republic of the Congo know me as Maman Ashley. This is how core to womanhood motherhood is. The way we ...

In my community, when a baby is born, we say “makorokoto, mapona, congratulations”, you survived. These words, while celebratory, echo a painful reality for many women in Zimbabwe. Childbirth remains ...