Over a five-year period, 24% of pregnant and postpartum women in study reported unmet health care needs due to cost; 60% reported health care unaffordability.

Study sheds light on relationship between perinatal mood and anxiety disorders and first time cesarean delivery among pregnant women.

Study finds prevalence of suicidal thoughts and self-harm among childbearing women nearly tripled over a decade, with an estimated 24,000 individuals at potential suicide risk.

Affordable Care Act’s elimination of out-of-pocket costs for contraception was associated with fewer births, especially among low income families.

When states expanded Medicaid eligibility, pregnant people were less likely to have disruptions in health care insurance around the time of pregnancy.

Hospital choice, higher maternal BMI and larger baby size increase chances of cesarean deliveries, according to an abstract presented at the Society of Maternal-Fetal Medicine’s annual Pregnancy Meeting.