pregnancy

Pediatrician Megan Pesch shares her personal experience with congenital CMV, a common viral infection that is rarely discussed, even though it can lead to serious consequences including birth defects and pregnancy loss.

Abortion bans criminalize pregnant people. This NPR piece explains how, and traces the history of criminalizing pregnancy over the last 50 years.

A network of indigenous doulas in Washington shows how Indigenous knowledge and experience foster healthier pregnancies and birth outcomes within Native communities.

How can we lower our cardiovascular risk when we have a history of pregnancy complications?

Midwife Stephanie Tillman, a doctoral student in Health Care Ethics, blogs about how to navigate painful cervical exams during pregnancy. What would cervical exams be like if we used a feminist approach to care?

This panel talks candidly about the realities of being masculine identifying women and how that affects pregnancy, motherhood, and approaches to parenting

An obstetrician and a new mother talk about the challenges Black women in rural Georgia face finding mental health support during pregnancy.

An interactive story in which mothers explain their feelings and emotions of dealing with parenthood.

The previous experience of infertility brings its own set of baggage to a pregnancy, including grief, anxiety, and fear.

Find groups and organizations fighting for the safety, dignity, and freedom of those who give birth.

Stress Urinary Incontinence (SUI) is the involuntary loss of urine on effort or physical exertion.

This video, from Harvard Medical Grand Rounds, includes several presentations on reproductive health for medical providers in internal medicine.