Pregnancy

Many pregnant women have not gotten vaccinated against COVID-19. As the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic hits the St. Louis region, many of them are ending up in the ICU.

Amanda Brown was nervous enough about being pregnant with her first child. She was washing her hands all winter — and that was before the coronavirus…

Pandemic aside, giving birth is already a time of high stress and anxiety. Expecting women need all the physical, mental and emotional support they can…

Washington University’s Clinic for Acceptance, Recovery and Empowerment treats women who become pregnant while dealing with an opioid use disorder. It…

Mercy Health has agreed to pull midwifery services from a planned primary care clinic in Ferguson after a local midwife accused the health system of…

The longer a woman smokes during pregnancy, the more likely she is to have a low birth weight baby, a study by a St. Louis University epidemiologist has…

She started using drugs at 16. After moving around the country and trying to quit several times, she came back to St. Louis four years later, hoping for a…

Pregnancy triggers a cascade of changes in a woman’s body, including, in some cases, a special form of diabetes.Gestational diabetes — which causes high…

In Illinois, losing a baby before its first birthday happens far more often to black mothers than those of other races. The difference between whites...

For more than 80 years, the American Academy of Pediatrics has identified newborns as underweight if they weigh less than 5 and a half pounds.But some…