Postpartum Period

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "At home, no one knows": A qualitative study of retention challenges among women living with HIV in Tanzania. 
  • "Now, I have my baby so I don't go anywhere": A mixed method approach to the 'everyday' and young motherhood integrating qualitative interviews and passive digital data from mobile devices. 
  • A Comparison of Practices During the Confinement Period among Chinese, Malay, and Indian Mothers in Singapore. 
  • A Pilot Trial of a Health Promotion and Illness Prevention Paradigm in the Perinatal Period. 
  • A critical review of smoking, cessation, relapse and emerging research in pregnancy and post-partum. 
  • A prospective study of maternal anxiety, perceived stress, and depressive symptoms in relation to infant cognitive development. 
  • A risk score to identify HIV-infected women most likely to become lost to follow-up in the postpartum period. 
  • Active Mothers Postpartum (AMP): rationale, design, and baseline characteristics. 
  • Active Mothers Postpartum: a randomized controlled weight-loss intervention trial. 
  • Acute myocardial infarction in a young female. 
  • Adolescent satisfaction with postpartum contraception and body weight concerns. 
  • Agonistic angiotensin II type 1 receptor autoantibodies in postpartum women with a history of preeclampsia. 
  • An assessment of medical resource utilization and hospitalization cost associated with a diagnosis of anemia in women with obstetrical bleeding in the United States. 
  • Anatomic changes in the pelvis after uncomplicated vaginal delivery: evaluation with serial MR imaging. 
  • Antepartum or postpartum isoniazid treatment of latent tuberculosis infection. 
  • Application of the estrogen threshold hypothesis to the physiologic hypoestrogenemia of lactation. 
  • Association of SARS-CoV-2 Infection With Serious Maternal Morbidity and Mortality From Obstetric Complications. 
  • Associations between physical activity and postpartum depressive symptoms. 
  • Attitudes Toward Long-Term Use of Antiretroviral Therapy Among HIV-Infected Pregnant Women in Moshi, Tanzania: A Longitudinal Study. 
  • Barriers to Receiving Long-acting Reversible Contraception in the Postpartum Period. 
  • Behavioral coping phenotypes and associated psychosocial outcomes of pregnant and postpartum women during the COVID-19 pandemic. 
  • Benefits and Risks of Bilateral Salpingectomy Compared With Standard Tubal Ligation During Cesarean Delivery for Permanent Postpartum Contraception. 
  • Biochemical Pathways and Myometrial Cell Differentiation Leading to Nodule Formation Containing Collagen and Fibronectin. 
  • Body image and body satisfaction differ by race in overweight postpartum mothers. 
  • Body mass index, eating attitudes, and symptoms of depression and anxiety in pregnancy and the postpartum period. 
  • Breastfeeding and postpartum amenorrhea in a traditional society: a hazards model analysis. 
  • Breastfeeding in women with rheumatic diseases. 
  • Changes in physical activity among postpartum overweight and obese women: results from the KAN-DO Study. 
  • Changing the Postpartum Care Paradigm. 
  • Characterization of antithrombin levels in pregnancy. 
  • Childbearing is not associated with young women's long-term obesity risk. 
  • Chorioamnionitis versus intraamniotic infection among preterm deliveries-is postpartum infectious morbidity different? 
  • Comparison of dietary intake of overweight postpartum mothers practicing breastfeeding or formula feeding. 
  • Comparison of the Trends in Risk Factors and Management of Severe Postpartum Hemorrhage Years 2000-2004 Versus 2005-2008. 
  • Consumption of key food groups during the postpartum period in low-income, non-Hispanic black mothers. 
  • Contraception use, family planning, and unprotected sex: few differences among HIV-infected and uninfected postpartum women in four US states. 
  • Contraceptive use by obese women 1 year postpartum. 
  • Correlates of postpartum common mental disorders: results from a population-based study in Amhara region, Ethiopia. 
  • Couples' Experiences of Maternal Postpartum Depression. 
  • Day-and-Night Closed-Loop Insulin Delivery in a Broad Population of Pregnant Women With Type 1 Diabetes: A Randomized Controlled Crossover Trial. 
  • Delaying cholecystectomy for complicated gallstone disease in pregnancy is associated with recurrent postpartum symptoms. 
  • Dental attendance among low-income women and their children following a brief motivational counseling intervention: A community randomized trial. 
  • Development of a Generic Physiologically-Based Pharmacokinetic Model for Lactation and Prediction of Maternal and Infant Exposure to Ondansetron via Breast Milk. 
  • Development of resistance mutations in women receiving standard antiretroviral therapy who received intrapartum nevirapine to prevent perinatal human immunodeficiency virus type 1 transmission: a substudy of pediatric AIDS clinical trials group protocol 316. 
  • Diagnosis and Management of Postpartum Pelvic Floor Disorders. 
  • Diagnostic methods to determine microbiology of postpartum endometritis in South Asia: laboratory methods protocol used in the Postpartum Sepsis Study: a prospective cohort study. 
  • Diet quality and weight change among overweight and obese postpartum women enrolled in a behavioral intervention program. 
  • Dual contraceptive method use for pregnancy and disease prevention among HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected women: the importance of an event-level focus for promoting safer sexual behaviors. 
  • Eating attitudes and behaviors in pregnancy and postpartum: global stability versus specific transitions. 
  • Effect of a Universal Postpartum Nurse Home Visiting Program on Child Maltreatment and Emergency Medical Care at 5 Years of Age: A Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Effect of an educational script on postpartum contraceptive use: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Effect of breast-feeding on weight retention at 3 and 6 months postpartum: data from the North Carolina WIC Programme. 
  • Effect of breastfeeding on weight retention from one pregnancy to the next: results from the North Carolina WIC program. 
  • Effect of pregnancy on disease flares in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. 
  • Effects of charcoal-extracted follicular fluid on reproductive function in postpartum cows. 
  • Effects of postnatal parental smoking on parent and teacher ratings of ADHD and oppositional symptoms. 
  • Efficacy of a Nurse-Delivered Intervention to Prevent and Delay Postpartum Return to Smoking: The Quit for Two Trial. 
  • Efficacy of a couple-based randomized controlled trial to help Latino fathers quit smoking during pregnancy and postpartum: the Parejas trial. 
  • Elevated IgA concentration in milk produced by mothers delivered of preterm infants. 
  • Elevated frequencies of micronucleated erythrocytes in infants exposed to zidovudine in utero and postpartum to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV. 
  • Erosion of a B-Lynch suture through the uterine wall: a case report. 
  • Etonogestrel-Releasing Contraceptive Implant for Postpartum Adolescents: A Randomized Controlled Trial. 
  • Evaluation of a Family Connects Dissemination to Four High-Poverty Rural Counties. 
  • Exploring patterns and predictors of suicidal ideation among pregnant and postpartum women living with HIV in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. 
  • Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke during pregnancy in rats yields less effect on indices of brain cell number and size than does postnatal exposure. 
  • Extracorporeal Life Support in Pregnancy: A Systematic Review. 
  • Fecal and urinary incontinence in primiparous women. 
  • Fulminant herpes simplex viral hepatitis: ultrasound and CT imaging appearance and a review of the imaging literature. 
  • Gestational and postpartum weight change patterns in mothers with eating disorders. 
  • Gestational retinal microvasculature and the risk of 5 year postpartum abnormal glucose metabolism. 
  • Goals for Reaching Optimal Wellness (GROWell): A clinical trial protocol of a digital dietary intervention for pregnant and postpartum people with prenatal overweight or obesity. 
  • HIV Disclosure Among Pregnant Women Initiating ART in Cape Town, South Africa: Qualitative Perspectives During the Pregnancy and Postpartum Periods. 
  • Hemoglobin A1c and postpartum abnormal glucose tolerance among women with gestational diabetes mellitus. 
  • Hepatitis C in pregnancy: screening, treatment, and management. 
  • History of gestational diabetes mellitus and postpartum maternal retinal microvascular structure and function. 
  • How does women's bone health recover after lactation? A systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • IRE1 phosphatase PP2Ce regulates adaptive ER stress response in the postpartum mammary gland. 
  • Identification of Temporal Variables Surrounding Infant Falls in the Postpartum Unit. 
  • Imaging of Cerebrovascular Disease in Pregnancy and the Puerperium. 
  • Immune reconstitution syndrome and exacerbation of infections after pregnancy. 
  • Implementation of a Hydrotherapy Protocol to Improve Postpartum Pain Management. 
  • Improving treatment of severe hypertension in pregnancy and postpartum using a hypertensive pathway. 
  • Inclusive Care for Birthing Transgender Men: A Review of the Literature. 
  • Insurance Barriers, Gendering, and Access: Interviews with Central North Carolinian Women About Their Health Care Experiences. 
  • Interbirth intervals in wild baboons: Environmental predictors and hormonal correlates. 
  • Interest in healthy diet and physical activity interventions peripartum among female partners of active duty military. 
  • Intrathecal morphine for analgesia after postpartum bilateral tubal ligation. 
  • Intrauterine Device Placement During Cesarean Delivery and Continued Use 6 Months Postpartum: A Randomized Controlled Trial. 
  • Latent transition models to study women's changing of dietary patterns from pregnancy to 1 year postpartum. 
  • Levator ani denervation and reinnervation 6 months after childbirth. 
  • Lochia patterns among normal women: a systematic review. 
  • Low molecular weight heparin to prevent postpartum venous thromboembolism: A pilot study to assess the feasibility of a randomized, open-label trial. 
  • Low-molecular-weight heparin to prevent postpartum venous thromboembolism. A pilot randomised placebo-controlled trial. 
  • Magnetic resonance imaging of the pelvic floor in the postpartum patient. 
  • Management of hereditary antithrombin deficiency in pregnancy. 
  • Maternal Metabolites Associated With Gestational Diabetes Mellitus and a Postpartum Disorder of Glucose Metabolism. 
  • Maternal childhood trauma, postpartum depression, and infant outcomes: Avoidant affective processing as a potential mechanism. 
  • Maternal depression in rural Pakistan: the protective associations with cultural postpartum practices. 
  • Maternal obesity, psychological factors, and breastfeeding initiation. 
  • Maternal physiologic parameters in relationship to systemic inflammatory response syndrome criteria: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Maternal sepsis update. 
  • Minimum effective dose of spinal ropivacaine with and without fentanyl for postpartum tubal ligation. 
  • Multiparity is associated with high motivation to change diet among overweight and obese postpartum women. 
  • Neuromuscular Disorders and Pregnancy. 
  • Non-operative management of symptomatic cholelithiasis in pregnancy is associated with frequent hospitalizations. 
  • Obstetric Anesthesia During the COVID-19 Pandemic. 
  • Obstetric risk assessment. 
  • Opioid Management in Pregnancy and Postpartum. 
  • Ovarian cycling and reproductive state shape the vaginal microbiota in wild baboons. 
  • Passive immunization against oral AIDS virus transmission: an approach to prevent mother-to-infant HIV-1 transmission? 
  • Perinatal western-type diet and associated gestational weight gain alter postpartum maternal mood. 
  • Perioperative Considerations in Management of the Severely Bleeding Coagulopathic Patient. 
  • Peripartum cardiomyopathy presenting as an acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Pheochromocytoma complicated with cardiomyopathy after delivery--a case report and literature review. 
  • Physical activity during pregnancy and postpartum depressive symptoms. 
  • Physical activity patterns during pregnancy through postpartum. 
  • Policies and procedures related to testing for weak D phenotypes and administration of Rh immune globulin: results and recommendations related to supplemental questions in the Comprehensive Transfusion Medicine survey of the College of American Pathologists. 
  • Positive Emotions During Infant Feeding and Postpartum Mental Health. 
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Severe Maternal Morbidity. 
  • Postpartum Medicaid enrollment and churn in North Carolina. 
  • Postpartum Nipple Symptoms: Risk Factors and Dermatologic Characterization. 
  • Postpartum Respiratory Depression. 
  • Postpartum Weight Loss in Women with Class-III Obesity: Do They Lose What They Gain? 
  • Postpartum and Paternal Postnatal Depression: Identification, Risks, and Resources. 
  • Postpartum diabetes screening in women with a history of gestational diabetes. 
  • Postpartum immunization. Report of a study. 
  • Postpartum physical activity in overweight and obese women. 
  • Postpartum seizure prophylaxis: using maternal clinical parameters to guide therapy. 
  • Postpartum substance use and depressive symptoms: a review. 
  • Postpartum von Willebrand factor levels in women with and without von Willebrand disease and implications for prophylaxis. 
  • Practice bulletin no. 123: thromboembolism in pregnancy. 
  • Predictors of breastfeeding in overweight and obese women: data from Active Mothers Postpartum (AMP). 
  • Predictors of postpartum HIV care engagement for women enrolled in prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) programs in Tanzania. 
  • Predictors of postpartum weight change among overweight and obese women: results from the Active Mothers Postpartum study. 
  • Predictors of pregnant quitters' intention to return to smoking postpartum. 
  • Preeclampsia into eclampsia: toward a new paradigm. 
  • Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular Risk Factors, and Future Heart Disease. 
  • Pregnancy Medicaid Improvements in a Nonexpansion State After the Affordable Care Act. 
  • Pregnancy and thrombotic risk. 
  • Pregnancy-related fibroid reduction. 
  • Pregravid body mass index, psychological factors during pregnancy and breastfeeding duration: is there a link? 
  • Prenatal Contraceptive Counseling by Video. 
  • Prenatal paternal stress predicts infant parasympathetic functioning above and beyond maternal prenatal stress. 
  • Preoperative cefazolin rather than clindamycin or metronidazole is associated with lower postpartum infection among women with chorioamnionitis delivering by cesarean delivery. 
  • Prevalence and incidence of probable perinatal depression among women enrolled in Option B+ antenatal HIV care in Malawi. 
  • Prevention and management of venous thromboembolism in pregnancy. 
  • Prevention of Postpartum Venous Thromboembolism. 
  • Probable antenatal depression at antiretroviral initiation and postpartum viral suppression and engagement in care. 
  • Provider advice about weight loss and physical activity in the postpartum period. 
  • Pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy presenting in the postpartum period: a case report. 
  • Psychological Impact of COVID-19 on Pregnancy. 
  • Psychosocial challenges facing women living with HIV during the perinatal period in rural Uganda. 
  • Quitting Smoking before and after Pregnancy: Study Methods and Baseline Data from a Prospective Cohort Study. 
  • RBPJ mediates uterine repair in the mouse and is reduced in women with recurrent pregnancy loss. 
  • Randomized controlled trial of digital cognitive behavior therapy for prenatal insomnia symptoms: effects on postpartum insomnia and mental health. 
  • Rated helpfulness and partner-reported smoking cessation support across the pregnancy-postpartum continuum. 
  • Recognizing the risk of postpartum thrombosis among obese women and planning accordingly. 
  • Reducing misclassification in assignment of timing of events during pregnancy. 
  • Relationship Between Cesarean Delivery Rate and Maternal and Neonatal Mortality. 
  • Renal biopsy and pregnancy. 
  • Response to: 'Postpartum breastfeeding status' by Betzold. 
  • Retention in HIV Care During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period in the Option B+ Era: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Studies in Africa. 
  • Retinal vasculature and 5-year metabolic syndrome among women with gestational diabetes mellitus. 
  • Right frontal EEG and pregnancy/neonatal outcomes. 
  • Risk factors for postpartum readmission for preeclampsia or hypertension before delivery discharge among low-risk women: a case-control study. 
  • Risk of Postpartum Flare Hospitalizations in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease Persists After Six Months. 
  • Safety and immunogenicity of tetanus diphtheria and acellular pertussis (Tdap) immunization during pregnancy in mothers and infants: a randomized clinical trial. 
  • Self-Reported and objectively measured physical activity among a cohort of postpartum women: the PIN Postpartum Study. 
  • Sheehan syndrome: acute presentation with severe headache. 
  • Short and long-term impact of adolescent pregnancy on postpartum contraceptive use: implications for prevention of repeat pregnancy. 
  • Sidebar: The Fourth Trimester: Promising Possibilities through Postpartum Medicaid Coverage Expansion. 
  • Sociodemographic, perinatal, behavioral, and psychosocial predictors of weight retention at 3 and 12 months postpartum. 
  • Spinal anesthesia for postpartum tubal ligation: A retrospective analysis of the association of intrathecal bupivacaine dosing with inadequate surgical blocks. 
  • Stressful life events, intimate partner violence, and perceived stress in the postpartum period: longitudinal findings in rural Pakistan. 
  • The Effects of a Couples-Based Health Behavior Intervention During Pregnancy on Latino Couples' Dyadic Satisfaction Postpartum. 
  • The United States National Prospective Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome Study: microbiologic, serologic, clinical, and epidemiologic findings. 
  • The development and evaluation of a community-based clinical diagnosis tool and treatment regimen for postpartum sepsis in Bangladesh and Pakistan. 
  • The effect of patient education on pediatric immunization rates. 
  • The role of breast-feeding beyond postpartum amenorrhoea on the return of fertility in India: a life table and hazards model analysis. 
  • The use of nalmefene for intrathecal opioid-associated nausea in postpartum patients. 
  • Third trimester and early postpartum period of pregnancy have the greatest risk for ACS in women with SCD. 
  • Thromboembolism in pregnancy: recurrence risks, prevention and management. 
  • Trajectories of depressive symptoms over 2 years postpartum among overweight or obese women. 
  • Transcatheter pulmonary embolectomy after fontan. 
  • Transitioning to virtual interaction during the COVID-19 pandemic: Impact on the family connects postpartum home visiting program activity. 
  • Two-week postpartum intrauterine contraception insertion: a study of feasibility, patient acceptability and short-term outcomes. 
  • Unintended Effects of a Smoking Cessation Intervention on Latino Fathers' Binge Drinking In Early Postpartum. 
  • Unmet social support for healthy behaviors among overweight and obese postpartum women: results from the Active Mothers Postpartum Study. 
  • Use of a Novel Electronic Maternal Surveillance System and the Maternal Early Warning Criteria to Detect Severe Postpartum Hemorrhage. 
  • Using technology to promote postpartum weight loss in urban, low-income mothers: a pilot randomized controlled trial. 
  • Validation of telephone administration of 2 condition-specific quality-of-life questionnaires. 
  • Variation in Postpartum Glycemic Screening in Women With a History of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus. 
  • Venous thromboembolism in pregnancy. 
  • Villoglandular adenocarcinoma of the cervix: a case report. 
  • Vulnerable at Each Step in the PMTCT Care Cascade: High Loss to Follow Up During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period in Tanzania. 
  • Weight concerns in women smokers during pregnancy and postpartum. 
  • What are the biopsychosocial risk factors associated with pain in postpartum runners? Development of a clinical decision tool.