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Maternal Mental Health Awareness Month
Maternal Mental Health Month is recognized every May. Perinatal mental health disorders are the No. 1 complication of childbirth.
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Doula Support Improves Maternal and Child Health Outcomes, Patient and Family Engagement
In honor of World Doula Week, celebrated annually March 22-28, The National Institute for Children’s Health Quality (NICHQ) held a conversation with LaToshia Rouse, CD/PCD(DONA), owner of Birth Sisters Doula Services. Rouse currently serves as the Patient and Family Engagement Co-Chair of the National Network for Perinatal Quality Collaboratives Executive Committee and joined NICHQ’s Board…
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Healthy Start Perinatal Depression and Anxiety
Brochures to reach mothers and birthing people in their communities about postpartum depression.
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Mental Health Awareness Month Social Media Toolkit 2021
A collection of social media posts and graphics to outline the significant role mental health plays.
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Supporting Father’s Mental Health Infographic
Supporting father’s mental health leads to better health outcomes and well-being of their children.
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A Mother-Centered Approach to Treating Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
With rising opioid addiction rates, increasingly high numbers of babies are being born with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS). Babies with NAS may suffer from multiple withdrawal symptoms including tremors, sleeping problems, irritability, fever, diarrhea, difficulty eating and gaining weight, and seizures. Researchers at Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital have published findings (Hospital Pediatrics, January, 2018) that…
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Maternal Depression
This issue brief will help to understand the signs of maternal depression and the interdependence between caregiver-child health and well-being.
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The Opioid Epidemic and Maternal Health: Three Opportunities for Change
Opioid use disorder in pregnancy has increased dramatically across the country in the last decade, bringing with it increased health risks for mothers and babies. Mothers who don’t receive treatment are facing increased pregnancy complications, including increased risk for preterm births and low birth rates, and ultimately, more families are being separated, whether by needed…
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Social-Emotional Health is Often Invisible, But It Still Needs Support
In Bountiful, Utah, on Dec. 1, 2016, a young boy fired a gun into a classroom full of middle school science students. No one was physically injured, but there were other kinds of injuries. Aliza, the daughter of NICHQ Project Director Colleen Murphy, MSMOB, was in that classroom. And the shooter was one of Aliza’s…
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Scan of Early Childhood Developmental Screening Strategies Reveal Varied Approach
A new issue brief from NICHQ and the Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs (AMCHP) provides insight into the Title V Maternal and Child Health Block Grant developmental screening activities across the country, one aspect of enhancing systems that support early childhood development. Entitled Early Childhood Developmental Screening and Title…
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