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Gaining too much weight during pregnancy raises complication risks
A new study of more than one million births led by McMaster University researchers has found that gaining…
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🚨 Domestic violence during pregnancy can put both the pregnant person and their baby at risk. Recognizing abuse, providing safe healthcare, and supporting survivors are essential parts of maternal health. #MaternalHealth #BodilyAutonomy
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https://www.europesays.com/conflicts/40375/ US strikes one-year deal to fund maternal and newborn health donations in poorest countries #DemocraticRepublicOfCongo #Haiti #HumanitarianAid #Mali #MaternalHealth #TrumpAdministration #USStrikes #UNICEF #US #USAID #USAIDGlobalHealthSupplyChain
When It Comes To Miscarriages, It’s Time To Stop Telling Women To Just Try Again
The medical journal The Lancet published a series of papers on the effects of miscarriage—and the importance of reform surrounding the ways we address this issue. The papers point out some factors that can affect your chances of suffering one (like age, body mass index, race, stress, air pollution and exposure to pesticides), as well as some of the less-discussed repercussions of miscarriage, like a higher likelihood of both mental health issues, future obstetric complications and long-term […]
The hidden costs of fracking: boom in Argentina linked to trail of sickness
By Elena Basso in Allen, Neuquén and Añelo, Argentina
Families in Vaca Muerta, the centre of Patagonia’s shale operation, report cancers, miscarriages and pollution
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The Pregnancy Complication Series: (part four)
Blood Pressure & Pregnancy- Part 2 The More Severe Alright, it’s been a while so let’s recap. The last post (The Pregnancy Complication Series: (Part three) we discussed the basics of pregnancy specific blood pressure disorders. We discussed gestational hypertension, preeclampsia, preeclampsia with severe features, who is at risk, and what we can do for prevention. This week we continue the conversation and expand to the more severe forms of pregnancy related blood pressure disorders: […]https://theobnp.com/2026/10/13/the-pregnancy-complication-series-part-four/
New in JAMA Network Open: among 9,360 pregnancies, mothers who stayed on medication for opioid use disorder longer through pregnancy and after delivery had roughly half the risk of overdose or death in the first year postpartum. Overdose is the leading cause of maternal death in the U.S. Continuity of care isn't a nice-to-have — it's the difference between a mother at her baby's first birthday and a statistic.
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/470070/ Mothers Share Beds as Maternity Ward Struggles in Bududa #BududaDistrict #BuluchekeHealthCentreIV #GeraldMatembu #HealthInfrastructure #MaternalHealth #MaternityServicesUganda #MinistryOfHealthUganda #Uganda
https://www.europesays.com/africa/468708/ Rotary Club of Matugga Provides Free Medical Services to 300 Residents #diabetes #FreeMedicalCamp #Malaria #MamaKits #MaternalHealth #MatuggaHealthCentreIII #RotaryClubOfMatugga #TuberculosisScreening #Uganda #UgandaHealthcare
DATE: October 10, 2026 at 08:00AM
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TITLE: Pregnant women with a history of childhood neglect show stronger inflammatory reactions to stress
New research suggests that pregnant women with a history of childhood maltreatment tend to show stronger inflammatory responses to a stressful laboratory task, and that these heightened responses are linked to more pregnancy and birth complications. The findings point to a possible biological pathway through which the effects of early adversity might carry into the next generation, though the study did not track children’s later development. The study was published in Developmental Psychobiology.
Inflammation is the immune system’s natural defense mechanism. When the body faces an injury, infection, or severe stress, it releases specific proteins called pro-inflammatory cytokines, which trigger swelling and direct immune cells to protect the affected area. During a typical pregnancy, a woman’s immune system naturally shifts toward an anti-inflammatory state during the second and third trimesters. This protective shift helps prevent the mother’s body from rejecting the developing fetus and supports a healthy, full-term pregnancy.
Sometimes this protective environment breaks down. According to toxic stress theory, severe or prolonged adversity early in life can lastingly alter how a person’s physiological systems respond to challenges. When a person faces a threat, the sympathetic nervous system activates the “fight or flight” response, which can set off a biological chain reaction that produces pro-inflammatory cytokines, such as interleukin 6, and other markers like C-reactive protein, a protein released during inflammation.
“We know negative health impacts of stress and adversity tend to carry across generations, and prenatal development represents a critical window for the mothers’ accumulated stress to shape their child’s future risk,” lead author Heidemarie K. Laurent, an associate professor of human development and family studies and Edna Bennett Pierce Professor of Care and Compassion at Pennsylvania State University, told PsyPost. “However, we still don’t know enough about the nature of these risk paths—that is, how early life adversity shapes women’s stress responsiveness in pregnancy, and how these stress responses may go on to create complications in pregnancy and/or childbirth that harm child development.”
Past research suggests that early adversity is linked to differences in biological stress responses. For instance, a study covered by PsyPost in 2025 found that women who identified childhood trauma as their most stressful life experience exhibited blunted responses of cortisol, a stress hormone, to acute psychosocial stress.
Previous studies measuring inflammation in pregnant women with trauma histories have yielded mixed results, and the authors suggest one reason may be that many measured resting inflammation rather than how the body reacts to a specific stressor. For example, a 2020 study found that adults who reported childhood physical neglect showed exaggerated inflammatory responses after a stressful public speaking and math task. To capture these acute reactions, researchers have increasingly turned to collecting saliva, which provides a non-invasive way to track brief spikes in inflammation.
While oral inflammation is localized to the mouth, it may signal broader systemic health risks during pregnancy. For example, a 2024 review suggested that oral inflammatory conditions, such as periodontal disease (gum disease), are associated with a higher rate of premature births and preeclampsia (a dangerous high-blood-pressure condition in pregnancy).
To investigate this further, Laurent and her colleagues aimed to determine whether early adversity changes a pregnant woman’s salivary inflammatory response to an acute stressor. The researchers recruited 158 pregnant women from local health centers, community agencies, and social media advertising. Most were in their third trimester, with an average gestational age of about 31 weeks. The women first completed a questionnaire assessing their history of childhood maltreatment, rating how often they experienced emotional neglect, physical neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and emotional abuse.
To measure their physical response to stress, the participants completed a standardized psychological challenge known as the Trier Social Stress Test. Following a brief preparation period, the women delivered a five-minute speech and then performed five minutes of mental arithmetic out loud in front of a trained evaluator. The researchers collected five saliva samples from each participant over the course of the session, starting before the task and ending almost an hour afterward. These samples were tested for the presence of C-reactive protein and three pro-inflammatory cytokines: interleukin 1 beta, interleukin 6, and tumor necrosis factor alpha.
Roughly three months after giving birth, 112 of the original participants returned to report on their obstetric outcomes. Their reported pregnancy complications included medical problems such as gestational diabetes and high blood pressure, but also anxiety and depression during pregnancy, which were the two most commonly reported items. They also reported on birth complications, including whether the baby required oxygen, an incubator, or a stay in the neonatal intensive care unit. Additional data was collected on the baby’s birth weight and whether the birth was premature.
The scientists found that a history of childhood maltreatment predicted higher and more prolonged inflammatory responses to the stress test. Physical neglect and sexual abuse had the most widespread associations with the women’s immune reactions. About 13 percent of the sample reported moderate to severe physical neglect, and 10 percent reported moderate to severe sexual abuse. Women reporting more physical neglect tended to show both higher levels of inflammatory proteins after the stressor and a more prolonged rise, while those reporting more sexual abuse showed higher levels, though the authors note these effects were small.
Separately, these exaggerated inflammatory responses were associated with more challenging obstetric outcomes. Across all analyses, the researchers noted that the findings remained similar even after accounting for factors such as current medications, educational level, and marital status. Women who displayed higher levels of inflammatory cytokines during the prenatal stressor reported a greater total number of pregnancy complications. Women whose inflammatory responses continued to rise over the course of the testing session tended to report poorer birth outcomes.
An extended inflammatory response was associated with a greater likelihood of premature birth, defined as birth before 37 weeks of gestation, which occurred in 4 percent of the sample, or only about four or five births, so this finding rests on very few cases. Inflammatory responses were not linked to birth weight.
“This suggests stress-induced inflammation in pregnancy may serve as a target to interrupt intergenerational health risk cascades,” Laurent explained. “A practical implication is that women who screen positive for maltreatment history during prenatal care could be provided behavioral and/or pharmaceutical supports to reduce inflammation and improve long-term mother/child health.”
The findings align with research covered by PsyPost in 2025, which also linked maternal inflammation during pregnancy to shorter gestation and preterm birth. That earlier study, however, measured resting systemic inflammation in blood rather than salivary inflammatory reactivity to an acute stress test.
As with all research, there are some caveats to consider. The sample was largely composed of middle-to-upper-income white women who were prescreened for relatively low-risk pregnancies. This means the findings might not fully generalize to populations facing higher rates of poverty or specialized medical risks. The study also relied on self-reported, retrospective accounts of childhood maltreatment and birth complications, which can be influenced by memory biases.
The study also did not formally test whether inflammation explains the link between childhood maltreatment and obstetric complications; a preliminary test of that pathway did not reach statistical significance. Nor did it test whether reducing inflammation improves outcomes. Women who didn’t return for follow-up were younger, less educated, and less likely to be married, and since these traits are linked to higher inflammation, the dropouts may have weakened the results. There is also ongoing debate among scientists regarding the exact relationship between localized salivary inflammation and body-wide systemic inflammation.
“A caveat to keep in mind is that to get repeated measures of acute response to social stress, we tested inflammation in saliva rather than blood or other tissues,” Laurent noted. “Although we have growing evidence that oral inflammation relates to health-related risks, we do not know for sure the extent to which this represents systemic inflammation or inflammation in the placenta that may more directly influence fetal development.”
The authors also note that tracking these markers in both blood and saliva throughout the entire pregnancy, rather than just the third trimester, would provide a more complete picture. Using actual medical records instead of self-reports in future studies would also help confirm the exact nature of the birth complications.
“A next step I hope to pursue based on this research is to investigate effects of prenatal mindfulness training on pregnant people’s stress-induced and placental inflammation, and how these markers of inflammation predict birth outcomes,” Laurent said. “This would help to solidify our knowledge of when and how we can best intervene to disrupt risk paths and improve intergenerational health.”
The study, “Inflammatory Stress Response During Pregnancy as a Connecting Link in Intergenerational Risk Cascades,” was authored by Heidemarie K. Laurent, Sherryl H. Goodman, Karen D. Rudolph, Kento Suzuki, Penina Backer, Aastha Dhimal, Sarah Pikhit, and Douglas A. Granger.
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Black people in Canada face higher risk of severe maternal morbidity
Black people in Canada have an increased risk of severe maternal morbidity (SMM) – serious complications that can occur…
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Does metformin during pregnancy affect your child’s development?
Researchers probe outcomes in elementary school kids https://medicalnewsbulletin.com/does-metformin-during-pregnancy-increase-the-risk-of-developmental-vulnerabilities-in-kids/ 🧪 #pmospregnancy #PCOS #diabetes #gestationaldiabetes #maternalhealth #PCOStok #insulinresistance medsky, 🩺,⚕️ PedSky
After years of calls for data, study confirms Black Canadians face higher risk of maternal complications, Alexandra Mae Jones reports. Read more at canadahealthwatch.ca #BlackHealth #MaternalHealth
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‘I do not know if the doctor survived’: young mothers recall ‘living hell’ of Nepal’s floods
By Jigyasa Mishra, Nuwakot district
Kalpana Nepali was seven months pregnant when the catastrophic flash floods hit last month, while Pooja Pariyal spent three days on a hospital roof waiting to be rescued. Now, they are living precariously in temporary shelters
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She traveled out of Oklahoma for an abortion. Now, she’s suing to change the law.
DATE: September 25, 2026 at 07:00AM
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TITLE: Children’s math and reading skills are linked to better maternal health in midlife
An analysis of National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data found that mothers whose children were better at math and reading tended to be healthier. On the other hand, low levels of math and reading comprehension in children were related to larger declines in mothers’ physical health between 40 and 50 years of age. The paper was published in Intelligence.
Intelligence is the general capacity to learn, reason, solve problems, understand complex information, and adapt effectively to new situations. It has been linked to a wide range of health outcomes, with higher intelligence and cognitive ability generally associated with better physical health, better mental health, and a lower risk of death. These associations have helped give rise to cognitive epidemiology, a field that examines how cognitive abilities relate to health and disease across the lifespan.
The relationship between intelligence and health likely begins early, as childhood intelligence has been associated with health outcomes many decades later. At the same time, parental health can influence children’s cognitive development, with maternal depression, physical health problems, and other adverse conditions sometimes associated with poorer cognitive outcomes in children. Because influences can run in both directions, researchers increasingly view the family rather than the individual as an important unit for understanding the relationship between intelligence and health.
Study author Linda Wänström and her colleagues explored the relationship between family intelligence and maternal health. More specifically, they focused on the association between the intelligence of children and the health of their mothers.
These researchers used data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79). This is a longitudinal survey of 12,686 US adolescents and young adults from 8,770 households, initially aged 14 to 21 at the end of 1978. The NLSY Children (NLSYC) dataset includes all biological children of the NLSY79 mothers, totaling 11,504 individuals. NLSYC participants have been surveyed every two years since 1986 and their familial connections with the NLSY79 participants tracked. About 51% of the NLSYC participants were male.
The NLSYC participants completed the Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT) in mathematics, reading recognition, and reading comprehension every two years from ages 5 to 15, between 1986 and 2014. Each eligible child underwent up to five assessments.
Study authors used scores on these tests as a measure of intelligence. In the NLSY79 group, health assessments of mothers were conducted as they reached ages 40 and 50, starting during the survey years of 1998 and 2008, respectively. These assessments included a self-report measure of physical and mental health, and a depression scale. For mothers, there was also an intelligence assessment done when they were between 15 and 23 years old using the Armed Forces Qualifying Test, an achievement test often used as a proxy for an intelligence test.
The results showed that, on average, mothers’ depression symptoms increased between 40 and 50 years of age, while their physical health scores decreased. As expected, children’s math and reading scores increased as they grew up.
Mothers whose children had stronger math and reading scores tended to have better physical and mental health. On the other hand, low levels of math and reading comprehension in children were associated with larger declines in mothers’ physical health between 40 and 50 years of age.
“The results indicated that family-level intelligence is positively related to maternal health at middle-age,” the study authors wrote. They discussed the notion of a “Flynn effect transfer” within families. The Flynn effect is the well-documented historical phenomenon where intelligence test scores increase from generation to generation. The authors suggested that families with higher cognitive levels and gains, possibly due to mothers starting families later and belonging to later cohorts, exhibit better maternal health outcomes in midlife, which could be studied in future research.
The study contributes to the scientific understanding of the links between health and cognitive abilities. However, it should be noted that although the study originally talks about intelligence, it did not use a dedicated test of cognitive abilities, but used achievement tests as proxy indicators of intelligence. Such a decision is defensible as achievement test scores tend to be highly correlated with intelligence, but this view is not universally accepted among researchers.
The paper, “Family-level intelligence and maternal health: A cross-cohort, cross-generational longitudinal study using the NLSY,” was authored by Linda Wänström, Patrick O’Keefe, Graciela Muniz-Terrera, Stacey Voll, Frank D. Mann, Sean Clouston, Scott Hofer, and Joseph L. Rodgers.
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DATE: September 23, 2026 at 04:30AM
SOURCE: STAT NEWS MENTAL HEALTH
TITLE: Opinion: Mentally ill women deserve more support to have children
A friend once told me approvingly that someone she knew had talked his schizophrenic adult son into having a vasectomy. Though I read “talked into” as “coerced,” I didn’t say anything.
Oh my god, I thought instead, maybe I shouldn’t be a mother. I’d had a break with reality after stopping my antipsychotic 10 years before, frustrated with weight gain. I had returned to taking medication and my mental health had stabilized long before this conversation. But I was now pursuing pregnancy.
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Important nutrients during breastfeeding every mom should know 🤱🏽
Your body works hard while breastfeeding, so getting the nutrients you need matters — Mary Comerce, founder of The Health Coach Academy, shares her insights.
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An AI chatbot is helping Kenyan mothers navigate pregnancy questions where search engines and clinics are out of reach
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NPR profiles a chatbot providing pregnancy guidance to women in rural Kenya who lack reliable internet access or proximity to healthcare facilities, covering common questions from swelling to food saf
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Study explores pregnancy risks from heat and wildfire smoke
Wildfire smoke and extreme heat – increasingly the new norm – each have their own harmful effects on…
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146 Rural Hospitals Have Stopped Delivering Babies Since 2020: How the Closures Hit Medicaid Patients, Specific States and Local Staff Differently
Since 2020, 146 rural hospitals have quit delivering babies, and Medicaid patients now face the longest new drives to reach one that still…
Twenty-five years ago we were part of a select team of community members assisting a postpartum mother who was suffering such a condition. We’re grateful to Deborah Becker and #NationalPublicRadio for shining the light on the need for vital changes in postpartum care.
"Mom and mental health advocate Meghan Cliffel wonders why others only seem concerned about the condition in the wake of an unspeakable tragedy.
"'You care about this now when it's the center of this dramatic and tragic trial, but you don't care about this enough,' she says, because real concern would be 'creating a system of care that is not just centered around the baby, but is actually centered around the family's wellbeing.”’
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‘Nobody should be alone’: Doula brings holistic birthing wellness center to north Tulsa
Science behind breastfeeding is still evolving.
Human milk science, neonatal microbiome, maternal nutrition — active research areas with real evidence gaps.
More good science = better outcomes for mothers and newborns.
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This is #WorldBreastfeedingWeek & it is a good moment to acknowledge something the clinical research community does not discuss
Science behind #breastfeeding is still evolving. Human milk science, maternal nutrition, neonatal microbiome development the immunological properties of colostrum — these r active areas of #clinicalResearch with significant evidence gaps that directly affect how mothers & newborns r supported around the world.
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Rural America’s Maternal-Health Crisis Is About to Get Much Worse https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/07/giving-birth-rural-hospitals-danger-mortality/688091/?utm_source=feed #uspoli #TrumpRegime #BlameTrump #BlameGOP #BlameElonMusk #BlameRFKjr #MAHA #pregnancy #RuralHealth #PublicHealth #MaternalHealth
Giving birth in the shadow of Haiti’s gang violence – photo essay
By Jelle Krings
As fighting intensifies in Port-au-Prince, only a fraction of its maternity services remain, and they are under constant threat
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The Pregnancy Complication Series (Part two)
Diabetes & Pregnancy- Part 2: Type 2 Diabetes The last time we spoke about diabetes and pregnancy (The Pregnancy Complication Series) we discussed gestational diabetes which is diabetes that only occurs within a pregnancy. Today, we will discuss type 2 diabetes and its effect on pregnancy. Let’s Start with the Basis: What is Type 2 Diabetes, How Does it Work? Diabetes is how the body processes sugar in the body which we need for energy. When we eat certain foods such as carbs (breads, […]https://theobnp.com/2026/07/26/the-pregnancy-complication-series-part-two/
Andy Burnham could easily ignore the UK’s falling aid commitment. He would be wise not to | Halima Begum
By Halima Begum
The FCDO’s annual report was quietly released just as Starmer was leaving office – it continues a long-term shift from supporting countries most in need to seeking something in return
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Moms of Black Babies More Likely to Be Flagged to Police Over Alleged Pregnancy Drug Use
New Study Reveals How Second Pregnancies Alter Brain Structure and Function
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Midwives on frontline of childbirth deaths crisis denied visas for key summit https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jun/19/midwives-africa-asia-mother-baby-childbirth-deaths-crisis-denied-visas-summit-portugal #GlobalHealth #GlobalDevelopment #MaternalHealth #MaternalMortality #Midwifery #ChildrensHealth #Portugal #Europe #Health #Society #WorldNews
Naomi Osaka Gets Candid About Motherhood, Pressure, and Learning to Ask for Help
Motherhood has reshaped Naomi Osaka in ways she never expected. The four-ti…
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