Rural residents have lower rates of continuous health insurance before, during and after pregnancy compared to those in urban cities

To address persistent racial disparities and inequities in maternal health in Black and low-income communities, centering the patient voice is key.

Study suggests hospital-based maternal deaths are occurring earlier in pregnancy or postpartum – while maternal deaths occurring at the time of delivery are declining in the U.S.

Study suggests Black pregnant individuals are more exposed to chronic social stressors that may increase their risk for negative health outcomes, racial disparities.

Postpartum depression and anxiety have increased in the time of COVID. New studies show the care gaps and surprising silver linings that emerged for people who gave birth during the early days of the pandemic.

More than a year after a complex separation surgery, Sarabeth and Amelia Irwin are “as individual as can be.”

Black women were twice as likely to get COVID-19 as white women, preeclampsia risk higher for all infected pregnant people in multicenter Michigan study.

For the first time in almost a century, experts release new pregnancy care recommendations that focus on tailoring care to individual patients.

Out-of-pocket spending for maternal and newborn hospitalizations among privately insured families can exceed $10,000 if babies require neonatal intensive care.

Study suggests the pandemic initially slowed down conception rates but anticipate a baby surge this summer. 

For low-income pregnant patients, health insurance disruptions may make it less likely that they receive recommended prenatal and postpartum care.

A patient with advanced heart failure gives birth to a healthy baby thanks to Michigan Medicine’s Cardio-Obstetrics Program.

In states with expanded Medicaid eligibility, pregnant people were more likely to have continuous health care insurance around the time of pregnancy.

The Luke Clinic brings free prenatal and obstetric services to individuals in need.

Conjoined twins attached at the chest and abdomen recently underwent successful separation surgery at Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital.