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Job Loss Increases Miscarriage Risk For Pregnant People, Study Finds

University of Essex research reveals a 23.5% miscarriage rate when either parent loses their job during pregnancy.

Zenger

Face pareidolia: how pregnant women could help us understand why we see faces in inanimate objects

Sometimes we see faces that aren’t really there. You may be looking at the front of a car or a burnt piece of toast when you notice a face-like pattern. This is called face pareidolia and is a mistake made by the brain’s face detection system.

The Conversation

Smokers 2.6 times more likely to give birth prematurely

The University of Cambridge study also found smoking meant the baby was four times more likely to be small for its gestational age.

The Independent UK

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Premature birth risk from smoking while pregnant higher than previously thought, study finds

The University of Cambridge study also found smoking meant the baby was four times more likely to be small for its gestational age

Evening Standard

Smoking in pregnancy increases risk of premature birth threefold, study finds

Risk of smoking double the previous estimate, but research finds no link between above average caffeine intake and pre-term babies

The Guardian - UK

Smoking during pregnancy doubles premature birth risk, study finds

The University of Cambridge study also found smoking meant the baby was four times more likely to be small for its gestational age.

The Independent UK

Premature birth risk from smoking while pregnant higher than previously thought

The University of Cambridge study also found smoking meant the baby was four times more likely to be small for its gestational age.

The Independent UK

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Ohio intends to keep enforcing its strict abortion law

Ohio Supreme Court justices have questioned the state’s lawyer about a legal strategy that Ohio is attempting in hopes of resuming enforcement of a ban on abortion except in the earliest weeks of pregnancy

The Independent UK

Ohio wants to resume enforcing its abortion law. Justices are weighing the legal arguments

The Independent UK

Covid restrictions had 'long-term' impact on women who gave birth during pandemic

COVID-19 restrictions in Scotland had “long term consequences” for women who were pregnant or gave birth during the pandemic, a report has said.

The National (Scotland)

Campaign in Arizona launches signature drive for a ballot initiative to establish a state constitutional right to abortion

Arizona for Abortion Access launched a signature-gathering campaign for an initiative on Sep. 21, 2023. The ballot initiative, which would appear on the ballot in Nov. 2024, would establish a state constitutional right to abortion before the point of fetal viability (defined as the point of pregnancy when there is…

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‘I miraculously survived cancer during pregnancy - and now I’m giving birth again’

Sarah Boyd is ‘lucky and fortunate’ to be alive after being diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer in August 2020

The Independent UK

CDC recommends RSV vaccine in late pregnancy to protect newborns

The shot will help shield newborns from RSV in the early months of life, when they're especially vulnerable to severe illness.

WEKU

RSV vaccine recommended during pregnancy as a second option to protect newborns

U.S. health officials are recommending RSV vaccinations for moms-to-be as a second option to protect newborns

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Brazil's top court opens vote on decriminalizing abortion up to 12th week of pregnancy

Brazil’s top court is deciding whether abortion up to the 12th week of pregnancy will be decriminalized nationwide

The Conversation

Nine women share what it's like to have a miscarriage

Miscarriage is a common woman’s health experience, but one that affects people differently. Ten years of studying miscarriage has taught me that no two women will have the same experience, and that the same woman is likely to experience separate miscarriages very differently.

The Independent UK

California sues anti-abortion organizations for unproven treatment to reverse medication abortions

California Attorney General Rob Bonta has sued an anti-abortion group and a chain of anti-abortion counseling centers, saying the organizations misled women when they offered unproven treatments to reverse medication abortions

Salon

Bodies "remember" prior pregnancy: study

Research suggests rare cells that remember prior children remain in the mother's body, perhaps forever

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‘Let your body be a body!’ Anne Hathaway took three years to recover after pregnancy

The actress slammed the pressure on women to trim down swiftly post-childbirth

WEKU

In a time of profound grief, a woman at church acknowledged this mother's pain

Heather Harper was overwhelmed with grief after the loss of her pregnancy. Then a woman at church said something that made her feel less alone.

The Canberra Times

That photo of family life sitting in your phone could be in an exhibition at the Shine Dome

The exhibition wants photos from pregnancy to a child turning one - the perinatal period

Pedestrian.tv

Bachie’s Locky Gilbert & Irena Srbinovska Dropped A Super Sweet Vid Announcing Their Pregnancy

The Bachelor Australia 2020's Locky Gilbert and Irena Srbinovksa have announced they're expecting their first child.

The Independent UK

Why pregnancy-related arrests in the US surged over the last two decades in Southern states

Report identified cases of women being put behind bars while pregnant

The Independent UK

I tried to get pregnant for so long – but when it happened I only felt guilt

A surprise pregnancy after struggling to conceive a child – and sometimes after giving up hope of it ever happening – can result in months of fear and anxiety, writes Kate Townshend. She meets other women like her who’ve experienced it too

The Hindu

Female elephant in Coimbatore died of pregnancy-related complications, post-mortem reveals. Foetus was in final stage of gestation, likely died before mother. Veterinarians believe dystocia caused foetus' death, leading to mother's. 16 wild elephants have died in Coimbatore Forest Division this year.

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