Tag "Covid-19"
Babies born during pandemic’s first year score slightly lower on a developmental screening test
Columbia researchers found that babies born during the pandemic’s first year scored lower on a developmental screening test of social and motor skills at 6 months, regardless of whether their
No sign of COVID-19 vaccine in breast milk
Messenger RNA vaccines against COVID-19 were not detected in human milk, according to a small study by UC San Francisco, providing early evidence that the vaccine mRNA is not transferred
COVID’s impact on pregnancy, birth trends
A different type of surge may be on the way more than a year into the pandemic – a baby surge. The COVID-19 shutdown initially seemed to hit pause on
International Day of the Midwife: Bringing lives into the world during a pandemic
Life as a midwife has looked rather different since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020, but the job at hand has remained the same during this time
Protecting or harming? The exclusion of pregnant women from the Covid-19 vaccine trials
Dr Sophie Williams, Academic Lead in Psychology at the University of Derby, examines the decision to exclude women from trials for the Covid-19 vaccine and the history behind this decision.
Pregnant women show robust immune response to COVID vaccines
In the largest study of its kind to date, researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard have found the
NMC reflects on extraordinary time one year on from the first Covid-19 national lockdown
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has launched a week of reflections on the year of Covid-19 – highlighting and celebrating the achievements of nurses, midwives, nursing associates and nursing
Pregnant women pass along protective Covid antibodies to their babies
Antibodies that guard against Covid-19 can transfer from mothers to babies while in the womb, according to a new study from Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian researchers published in the
COVID-19 infection in pregnancy not linked with stillbirth or baby death
COVID-19 infection in pregnancy is not associated with stillbirth or early neonatal death, according to a new study. However the research, from over 4000 pregnant women with suspected or confirmed
NMC updates approach to supporting nursing and midwifery education amid the Covid-19 pandemic
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has announced it will reintroduce emergency education standards to enable final year nursing students to opt-in to support the response to the Covid-19 pandemic,
