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Healio points us to a report from the Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services (CMS) on the results of Strong Start, a package of strategies to improve maternal-child health in low-income [...]

EurekAlert reports on a trial finding that giving 1st-time mothers more time to push out their babies cuts the cesarean rate for prolonged second stage in half. The American College of [...]

On the grounds that fetal alcohol syndrome is preventable by zero alcohol intake, an alarmist new recommendation from the CDC advises sexually active women not on birth control not to drink [...]

Once again the internet is abuzz over a study concluding that inducing labor doesn’t increase the cesarean rate, this time in week 39 in 1st-time mothers age 35 or older. The justification for [...]

EurekAlert reports on a study finding that states allowing autonomous certified nurse-midwifery (CNM) practice (no requirement for practice agreements or physician supervision) had more midwives [...]

Henci has a Science & Sensibility post under this title deconstructing a flurry of studies coming to the conclusion that they might.

Science & Sensibility has run a two-part series on Zika and pregnancy written by guest blogger, Rebekah Wheeler, CNM. Part 1 provides basic facts about the Zika virus, and Part 2 looks at the [...]