Left amygdalar volumes were smaller in newborns whose mothers had high psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic, a small cross-sectional study suggested. Infants of mothers with elevated ...

Episiotomies used to be commonplace, but now they're only used if something goes wrong during the birthing process.

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In the current study, the researchers only included research in which mothers' psychological distress was measured both during and after pregnancy. They found that even after controlling for later ...

As a bioacoustics researcher, I have spent years studying the communication of animals – from the soft calls of crocodile ...

Researchers observed mother–infant interactions in urban UK and rural Ugandan communities, focusing on how mothers soothed their babies following naturally occurring episodes of distress. Subscribe to ...

Not only do parental psychological distress trajectories co-develop during their offspring's preschool and primary school years, but also offspring exposure to increased maternal distress appears to ...

The transition to motherhood is accompanied by dramatic physical and environmental changes. The following section will discuss issues related to anorexia nervosa during the postpartum period, ...

In a recent study published in Nature Communications, researchers investigate the risk of respiratory distress (RD) in neonates born to mothers with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ...