20 January 2022

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...

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19 July 2021

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,...

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18 June 2021

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...

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6 May 2021

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...

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31 March 2021

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...

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29 March 2021

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...

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26 March 2021

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...

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15 March 2021

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...

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