Patients with SLE vs individuals without autoimmune disease demonstrated higher rates of peripartum complications.

However, a small subset of women experience significant pain and a delay in healing secondary to infection. Postpartum perineal infection is most often associated with midline episiotomy ...

While rare, it is possible to develop an infection after birth—and these infections can cause postpartum abdominal pains.

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Home-based HIV counseling and relationship building improved HIV testing, diagnoses and viral suppression among pregnant ...

Having one traumatic experience is bad enough. If you've constantly experienced stress since before birth, you may be in for ...

Having one traumatic experience is bad enough. If you've constantly experienced stress since before birth, you may be in for an especially tough time. Our emotions may be influenced by infections ...

The infection has long been treated as a women's issue, but a clinical trial in Australia showed that treating both partners eliminated reinfection, CNN reports. In other women's health news, brain ...

Postnatal care, also known as postpartum care, is the health care provided to a mother after giving birth. It involves ...