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Stanford Medicine: Wearable device data reveals that reduced sleep and activity in pregnancy is linked to premature birth risk

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Stanford Medicine: Wearable device data reveals that reduced sleep and activity in pregnancy is linked to premature birth risk. “In the study, which published online Sept. 28 in npj Digital Medicine, the researchers collected data from devices worn by more than 1,000 women throughout pregnancy. With a machine learning algorithm, the scientists sifted through participants’ activity information to detect fine-grained changes in sleep and physical activity patterns.”

WLBT: New website launched to connect Mississippi mothers to resources

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WLBT: New website launched to connect Mississippi mothers to resources. “The newly launched Mississippi Access to Maternal Assistance or MAMA site pulls the public and private resources together, allowing women to learn where to go for a wide range of needs, from during pregnancy to after the birth of their child.”

Rolling Stone: People Are Getting Pregnant on TikTok’s Trendy ‘On-Demand’ Birth Control

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Rolling Stone: People Are Getting Pregnant on TikTok’s Trendy ‘On-Demand’ Birth Control. “But EvoFem Biosciences has mounted an aggressive marketing campaign, presenting Phexxi as a standalone birth control — the Annie Murphy commercial racked up more than 2 billion impressions. And with its popularity on TikTok, where videos tagged have a combined 2.3 million views, there is high demand for the product. According to the company, a little more than 100,000 women hold Phexxi prescriptions today in the United States. Yet in crowd-sourced databases and online forums, alongside some rave reviews of Phexxi, are dozens of women reporting pregnancies while using the drug.”

Moms’ and babies’ medical data predicts prematurity complications, Stanford Medicine-led study shows (Stanford Medicine)

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Stanford Medicine: Moms’ and babies’ medical data predicts prematurity complications, Stanford Medicine-led study shows. “By sifting through electronic health records of moms and babies using a machine-learning algorithm, scientists can predict how at-risk newborns will fare in their first two months of life. The new method allows physicians to classify, at or before birth, which infants are likely to develop complications of prematurity.”

Penn State: New AI tool helps provide better care to pregnant women in Kenya

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Penn State: New AI tool helps provide better care to pregnant women in Kenya. “When compared to Jacaranda Health’s baseline AI model, TRIM-AI is roughly 17% more accurate at predicting high-risk medical conditions from text messages sent by new and expecting Kenyan mothers, which reduces the help-desk agents’ workload by approximately 12%. Their model also annotated messages more efficiently and accurately than human agents did.”

Vogue: What Is Social Media Doing to Our Concept of Pregnancy?

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Vogue: What Is Social Media Doing to Our Concept of Pregnancy?. “There is a body of research showing that engagement with Instagram momfluencers is associated with an increase anxiety in a subset of women who already tend towards social comparison and those who have low self-esteem. There’s nothing magical about social media, per se — researchers have long found that comparing ourselves to unattainable ideals makes us feel bad. But the ubiquity of imagery is new; we are now bombarded with media in a way that has no precedent.”

UC Irvine: UCI-led study finds virtual green space exposure beneficial to pregnant women

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UC Irvine: UCI-led study finds virtual green space exposure beneficial to pregnant women. “Pregnant women exposed to a green space environment in a virtual reality setting experienced decreases in blood pressure and improvements in mental health and well-being, according to a study led by the University of California, Irvine.”

The Verge: Period and pregnancy tracking apps have bad privacy protections, report finds

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The Verge: Period and pregnancy tracking apps have bad privacy protections, report finds. “Most popular period and pregnancy tracking apps don’t have strong privacy protections, according to a new analysis from researchers at Mozilla. Leaky privacy policies in health apps are always a problem, but issues that fall into this particular category are especially concerning now that abortion is illegal in many places in the United States.”

NPR: Google workers sign petition asking company to protect people’s abortion search data

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NPR: Google workers sign petition asking company to protect people’s abortion search data. “About 650 Google workers have signed a petition asking the company to protect users’ abortion-related location data and search history. The move comes over concerns that law enforcement agencies will seek such data from Google to prosecute abortion seekers.”

ProPublica: How Misinformation About COVID Vaccines and Pregnancy Took Root Early On and Why It Won’t Go Away

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ProPublica: How Misinformation About COVID Vaccines and Pregnancy Took Root Early On and Why It Won’t Go Away. “Before coronavirus vaccines were even released, a disinformation campaign used a moment of national and personal vulnerability to prey on those who were pregnant or who planned to become pregnant.”

International Atomic Energy Agency: IAEA Launches Database on Breast Milk Intake

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International Atomic Energy Agency: IAEA Launches Database on Breast Milk Intake. “The IAEA’s Database on Human Milk Intake is a growing global collection of studies, currently representing research from 28 countries across all regions, using the nuclear technique, deuterium oxide dose-to-mother (DTM), to determine how much breast milk breastfed infants consume.”

Birthing a Capstone: A Prenatal and Postpartum Health Toolkit for Public Librarians (National Library of Medicine)

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National Library of Medicine: Birthing a Capstone: A Prenatal and Postpartum Health Toolkit for Public Librarians. “Using PubMed and MedlinePlus as well as curating more online resources, this new toolkit gives librarians a ready-made, customizable bank of resources so that they can distribute pre-prepared resources or customize our resources templates to suit their specific library’s needs and ensures that librarians have access to high-quality, evidence-based information about prenatal, expecting, and postpartum needs to distribute to patrons, with the option to tailor it to suit their patrons’ needs.”

BuzzFeed News: She Was Single. She Wanted A Baby. So She Did It Herself.

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BuzzFeed News: She Was Single. She Wanted A Baby. So She Did It Herself.. “In recent years, SMBCs have formed small but rich and tight-knit online communities like the 4,000-member-strong Single Mother by Choice subreddit, where they help one another navigate the complexities of this path. Topics include how to find a sperm donor, what to say to your friends and family, whether to do insemination through a fertility clinic or the ‘DIY’ method, and how to prepare your finances for a child.”

Washington Post: Google is letting you limit ads about pregnancy and weight loss

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Washington Post: Google is letting you limit ads about pregnancy and weight loss. “Google says it wants to give you more control over the ads you see. Starting today, you can tell the company to stop showing you ads about pregnancy and parenting, dating or weight loss.”

WGN: Pandemic causes dip in birth rate, mental health crisis among pregnant, post-partum women

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WGN: Pandemic causes dip in birth rate, mental health crisis among pregnant, post-partum women. “COVID-19 has had an impact on pregnant and postpartum women during the pandemic. The Illinois Department of Public Health has been tracking the number of women testing positive for COVID-19 at delivery. The latest data shows from March 2020 to March 2021, there were nearly 1,500 positive cases.”