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Miscarriages in detention. Dangerously early labors. Homelessness. Single motherhood. Women share their stories of deaths, deportations, and crushed dreams. When Iris Monterroso-Lemus got pregnant in December 2024, she and her fiance, Gary Bivens, couldn’t wait to welcome their first child together
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Miscarriages in detention. Dangerously early labors. Homelessness. Single motherhood. Women in the crosshairs of ICE recall deaths, deportations, and crushed dreams. When Iris Monterroso-Lemus got pregnant in December 2024, she and her fiance, Gary Bivens, couldn’t wait to welcome their first child
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LAVONIA, Ga. — It had been a decade since Kara Holden last had a baby. But as the former obstetric nurse prepared for her fourth child, her head was swimming with contingency plans. The labor and delivery unit where she used to work in this rural northeastern Georgia community is no longer open.
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Click to expand Image Kaitlyn Joshua with her daughter, Lauryn, age 5, outside their home in Geismar, Ascension Parish, in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley. Joshua, a chronic asthma sufferer since childhood, said her physician told her, “Kaitlyn, it’s where you live. It’s the air quality.
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Opinion: Pregnancy and parenting require serious physical and emotional work. It’s time we start compensating parents. Some of the most important work in this country is happening every day, right before our eyes, and it rarely gets acknowledged. This Labor Day, U.S.
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And it's probably not what you'd expect.
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Mullin is far from the first Trump administration official to suggest restricting pregnant women from entering the U.S.
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It’s vital that Yvette Cooper’s taskforce acts on the Amos and Ockenden reports – and puts the needs of women and families at the heart of maternity services It is hard to find the words to describe the agony for those who have experienced preventable baby loss, injury or maternal death.
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This is not the first “bumpvestigation” targeting a powerful woman in the public eye.
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Readers add to a guide for handling tricky situations on public transport Re your article on travel etiquette ( The ultimate guide to travel etiquette: how to handle 36 tricky situations, from manspreaders to smelly armpits, 4 August ), it’s totally wrong to advise people not to give up seats for a
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Congratulations! Giving birth is one of life’s biggest and most sacred miracles. A newborn baby brings an infinite amount of joy, gratitude and pure marvel. That new life can also cause sadness, anxiety and fear.
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This page tracks recent state actions to extend Medicaid postpartum coverage, including approved and pending 1115 waivers, legislation that will require the state to seek federal approval through a SPA or 1115 waiver, submitted and approved SPAs, and coverage financed solely with state funds.
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This story was reported in partnership with LA Public Press , an independent nonprofit newsroom advocating for a better Los Angeles. When Areli Ramos arrived for her appointment at the women’s health clinic Tia in June 2022, she was showing signs of pregnancy.
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“I got plummeted into Hell and realized I was in perimenopause,” Halle Berry tells ESSENCE exclusively. Without warning, the rest of her body felt the changes, too. “I had vaginal dryness and it felt like I had razor blades in my vagina and my sex life just came to a screeching halt,” she says.
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"Not Penélope Cruz being better educated in the menopause than the myriad of male doctors I’ve seen over the past five years."
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When Serena Williams stepped away from tennis in 2022, she refused to use the word retirement. Instead, in a farewell essay , she said she was “evolving away from tennis.” She wanted to expand business ventures and grow her family — her second daughter was born a year after her last professional mat
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Click to expand Image A woman and her daughter in Revere, Massachusetts, US, December 11, 2020. © 2020 Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images On June 4, the United States House of Representatives passed the 2027 agriculture appropriations bill.
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Texas is considering whether to continue one of its most important tools for preventing maternal deaths. The state’s Maternal Mortality Review Committee (MMRC), which investigates pregnancy-related deaths and identifies ways to prevent them, is currently undergoing Sunset review—a routine process th
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The condition formerly known as polycystic ovarian syndrome, commonly referred to as PCOS, has a new name: polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome. PMOS, as it’s now called, is a set of signs and symptoms that often go together, including irregular, extra-long menstrual cycles that can be 35 or mor
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Today, Dr. Josephine Urbina, an ob/gyn in California and Fellow with Physicians for Reproductive Health, is testifying before the Democratic Women’s Caucus in a hearing titled “The Assault of Women By Trump’s ICE & CBP.” The post Dr.