#pregnancy Timeline

1d

"Pregnancy increases a woman’s chances of being targeted for a number of reasons, including heightened difficulty for them to leave abusive partners. Mississippi has become a hotspot for these deaths in large part because of lax gun laws and restrictive abortion access, both of which have been proven to increase violence against pregnant women."

https://19thnews.org/2026/03/mississippi-gun-deaths-pregnant-postpartum-people/

#PublicHealth #ReproHealth #pregnancy #postpartum #GunViolence #DomesticViolence #WomensHealth #MaternalHealth

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1d

"In North Carolina, where a clinician practices can make all the difference for someone seeking maternity care...Dozens of counties have no local obstetrics care, so families are forced to travel long distances for deliveries. That distance to care for rural patients has been linked to higher rates of cesarean sections, preterm births and maternal complications."

https://www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2026/03/16/lawmakers-hear-how-rural-women-face-risks-to-give-birth/

#healthcare #ReproHealth #ReproJustice #pregnancy #MaternalHealth #RuralHealth #obstetrics #NorthCarolina

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2d

Life-threatening complications overlooked in weeks after childbirth, researchers say
New Canadian research suggests close to a third of life-threatening complications linked to pregnancy and childbirth happen to women during the first six weeks following a delivery — a time when mothers typically experience far less medical tracking and support than they did during pregnancy.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/camj-childbirth-pregnancy-study-9.7128151?cmp=rss

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6d

Woman who lost 35-week pregnancy settles lawsuit with Fredericton hospital
A Hanwell woman who delivered a stillborn girl at the Chalmers Hospital in 2022 has discontinued her negligence lawsuit against Horizon Health, the hospital and four doctors. Aimee Dunn's lawyer said the case was settled out of court on terms that were "tolerable" to his client.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/medical-negligence-lawsuit-pregnancy-9.7114670?cmp=rss

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3y

Excellent Covid vaccination safety data during pregnancy from Dr Viki Male with link to her google doc data.
#pregnancy #COVID19 #VaccineSafety #vaccination #Scicomm #science

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_wHIYX-tGkGBPwuax7N8BxZPR4PTTCDm/mobilebasic

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43d

Across a woman’s life there are three major physiological transitions: puberty, pregnancy/childbirth, and menopause.
Medicine tends to treat them as separate stories. Lived experience often doesn’t.
This essay explores a single regulatory pattern that reappears across these stages — sometimes as overwhelm, sometimes as crisis, sometimes much later as muscle cramps or autonomic symptoms — not as pathology, but as boundary dynamics under changing conditions.
It’s about recognition, not diagnosis.
About regulation, not “coping better”.
And about why many women sense continuity where systems see fragments.
If this resonates — for you, your daughters, or your patients — you’re not imagining the pattern.

https://open.substack.com/pub/hybridmind42/p/boundary-transitions-in-female-physiology?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=75c2ac

#WomensHealth #Menopause #Perimenopause #Puberty #Pregnancy
#BoundaryDynamics #RegulationNotPathology #ListenToWomen #HealthLiteracy

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56d

That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works!

#memes #humour #pregnancy

Headline reads: White woman gives birth to a black baby, accuses husband of an affair with a black woman.

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97d

📢New paper alert!

'First reproductive experience: A #survey module' published @DemRes with @fertdem & colleagues.

We recommend national surveys to collect more data on 1st #reproductive experience (#pregnancy or trying for pregnancy) to better understand reproductive dynamics.

https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2025.53.37

@sociology @demography

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121d

In 48 other states, new moms have access to Medicaid for up to one year after they give birth. Not in Wisconsin.

There, the limit remains two months. And it’s only because of one man: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos.
https://www.propublica.org/article/wisconsin-postpartum-medicaid-coverage-robin-vos?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Wisconsin #Women #Health #Medicaid #Pregnancy #Law #USPolitics

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2y

#Syphilis Is Killing #Babies. The U.S. Government Is Failing to Stop the Disease From Spreading.
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The only drug that treats syphilis during #pregnancy is in short supply.

Untreated, the #disease can pass to newborns, killing them or leaving them with disabilities. As cases rise sharply, the #government isn’t doing much to prevent shortages.

#Health #HealthCare #Children #Kids #News #Pfizer

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-federal-government-fails-stop-syphilis-babies-pregnancy?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

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2y

In press: Extreme Weather: Wildfires & Pregnancy with Dr. Emilia Basilio https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0146000523001428
#ClimatechangesHealth #pregnancy #MedMastodon

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2y

5 Documents That Helped Us Understand How #Columbia Protected a Predator
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For decades, Columbia obstetrician Robert Hadden was abusing #patients.

Here’s some of the #evidence ProPublica reporter Bianca Fortis used to investigate how the #university allowed it to happen.

#SexualAssault #Education #Hospitals #Doctors #Parents #Moms #Pregnancy #News #NewYork #NYC

https://www.propublica.org/article/five-documents-helped-us-understand-how-columbia-protected-a-predator?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

This Post-it note with the name and phone number of Columbia University’s deputy general counsel was handed to one of Robert Hadden’s patients by another doctor after reporting she’d been abused by Hadden.

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2y

Did I share this already?

I organized a "Dinner with a Scientist" event at a Vienna Family Network group, bringing evolutionary biologist Barbara Fischer (expertise: adaptations & constraints on the human pelvis and childbirth) to a group of expecting women to potluck together and talk life x science.

A smashing success. I've never felt this complete. Everyone loved it, asked amazing scientific questions, shared life stories. #Scicomm at its best.

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7049615082929999872/ #pregnancy #evobio

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3y

Doing the ol’ cross-post: I had thoughts about breastfeeding & about why "breast is(nt always) breast". Emphasis on breastfeeding as "natural" & "normal" made me feel like I failed at parenting before i even gave birth.

No one should feel inferior for how we feed our babies

#cancer #pregnancy #breastfeeding https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/08/unable-to-breastfeed-my-baby-due-to-cancer-i-was-made-to-feel-like-a-failure

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3y

Please Boost!

This week's COVID newsletter is out!

In this issue:
😷What is the real data on masks & COVID?
🧠Long COVID and the brain
💪🏽What Long COVID can do to your muscles
🫁 Problems 1 year and 2 years after COVID infection

and much more
https://drruth.substack.com/p/covid-news-21823

#LongCOVID #COVID #masks #muscle #PEM #MECFS #pregnancy #neurodegenerativedisease #Parkinsons #Alzheimers #ALS #T1D #Diabetes