Pivoting to Childbirth at Home or in Freestanding Birth Centers1 in the US During COVID-19: Safety, Economics and Logistics

Birth-related decisions principally center on safety; giving birth during a pandemic brings safety challenges to a new level, especially when choosing the birth setting. Amid the COVID-19 crisis, the concurrent work furloughs, business failures, and mounting public and private debt have made prudent expenditures an inescapable second concern.

New Research: Pivoting to Childbirth at Home or in Freestanding Birth Centers1 in the US During COVID-19: Safety, Economics and Logistics: Birth-related decisions principally center on safety; giving birth during a… https://t.co/dRkRB0U7oB #Sociology #SocialSciences #Humanities

— Frontiers in Sociology (@FrontSociology) March 26, 2021

Motherhood on the brink in Yemen

“It was the morning of a normal working day before fighting escalated close to the hospital. I heard a mother screaming at the gate”, midwife Shrook Khalid Saeed told UNFPA, at the Al Shaab Hospital in the district of Crater, in Yemen. By the time she arrived at the entrance to the hospital, hostilities in the area had flared and a gunfight had broken out. 

“Bullets were coming from all the corners of the street”, she recounted. “When I arrived at the gate, I found the pregnant woman lying down and crying for help. I pulled her and rushed her inside a car. That is where all of it happened. In a few minutes, she had delivered a healthy baby boy.”

Motherhood on the brink in Yemen

War, a humanitarian crisis, a looming famine, a health system close to collapse and the deepening impact of the COVID-19 pandemic have led to a “catastrophic situation” in which a woman dies in childbirth every two hours https://t.co/JpAU9VColw

— Neo Vision (@NeoVisionMP) March 27, 2021

Shattering the infertility myth: What we know about Covid-19 vaccines and pregnancy

During trying times, myths and falsehoods sprout like mushrooms after rainfall. One of many that has emerged so far during the Covid-19 pandemic is that vaccines against the disease will cause infertility in women. It won’t. The likely origin of this myth is a letter sent to the European Medicines Agency (the equivalent of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration) by two European anti-vaccination propagandists. They erroneously claimed that the “vaccine contains a spike protein called syncytin-1 that is vital for the human placenta in women.”

Shattering the infertility myth: What we know about Covid-19 vaccines and pregnancy https://t.co/Vj8PP7mkvJ via @statnews

— CheckRare (@CheckRare) March 28, 2021