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Tips for New Mothers
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WIC Nutrition Program Connects Babies and Moms to Healthy Foods
Healthy moms are a key component to ensuring healthy babies, but for some expectant women that’s a difficult task due to income instability or even lack of access to health care and nutritious food. These social determinants of health can impact how an expectant mom...
Penn Medicine Develops Innovative Program to Improve High Blood Pressure Treatment for New Mothers
Penn Medicine has found that nearly 10 percent of pregnant women develop a dangerous high blood pressure condition known as preeclampsia during or a few days after pregnancy, even if they have no history of high blood pressure. This condition is difficult to...
Healthy Mothers and Babies in PA: The Need for Obstetric and NICU Services
Each year, more than 135,000 babies are born in Pennsylvania hospitals. Care of childbearing women and their newborns is by far the leading reason for hospitalization in the U.S. This makes perfect sense considering that roughly 99 percent of American mothers give...
When Babies Arrive, Hospital Obstetric and Neonatal Services Are Ready
Each year, more than 135,000 babies are born in Pennsylvania hospitals. Babies don’t arrive according to schedule, so the 93 hospitals that provide obstetric services are ready around the clock to provide the different services needed to support all kinds of...
Mental Illness: Postpartum Depression
If you're experiencing severe sadness, anxiety, and exhaustion, you may be seeing your "baby blues" become postpartum depression. The good news, if you get treatment, the feelings you're experiencing won't last forever. You are not alone.