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Missouri has a maternal mortality rate of 25.2 deaths per 100,000 live births, higher than the national average. Health professionals worry that the state’s near-total abortion ban will make pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period even more dangerous.
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Missouri has the 8th highest maternal deaths in the country. Pre-filed bill would extend postpartum care for low-income women.
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Less than two years ago, the staff behind Flourish St. Louis set a daring goal: eliminate racial disparity and infant mortality by 2033. They called it…
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Black infants in St. Louis County are more than twice as likely to die as white infants, according to a new report.The first Maternal and Child Health…
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The longer a woman smokes during pregnancy, the more likely she is to have a low birth weight baby, a study by a St. Louis University epidemiologist has…
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Brittany "Tru" Kellman sometimes starts her day two hours before Jamaa Birth Village opens at 10 a.m., stashing diapers and snacks for the dozens of…
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In Illinois, losing a baby before its first birthday happens far more often to black mothers than those of other races. The difference between whites...
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A local food bank has teamed up with a north St. Louis hospital to offer a “fresh-food prescription” service for low-income, pregnant mothers.Not having…
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For more than 80 years, the American Academy of Pediatrics has identified newborns as underweight if they weigh less than 5 and a half pounds.But some…
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Regions of the state with combined high poverty rates and concentrated African-American populations have higher percentages of low birth weight babies,…