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Healthy mom, healthy baby. The concept sounds simple enough, but a recent Northwestern Medicine study found the level of health literacy—how someone obtains, uses and understands health information—among pregnant people isn’t where it needs to be, and it’s having a negative impact on babies in utero and after birth, especially among people of color. Of

CDC: More than 4M vaccine doses administered in one day Fox News medical contributor and Johns Hopkins’ Dr. Marc Siegel joins ‘America’s Newsroom’ to discuss new vaccine milestone. Nursing mothers who opt to get the COVID-19 vaccine may pass protective antibodies to their babies through breast milk for several months post-jab, a new study suggests.

Celeb Moms Share Breastfeeding Pictures Mom power! Check out these A-list mothers including Gisele Bundchen, Miranda Kerr, and Jaime King, who proudly show off their breast-feeding skills—and their adorable babies, too. In order to view the gallery, please allow Manage Cookies For access to all our exclusive celebrity videos and interviews – Subscribe on YouTube! Source:

‘Tis the season for Elf on the Shelf to create controversy — and this time, it’s not just because the tradition is tiring out parents from all over the world during an already hectic time of year. Some 2020 wary moms and dads are even craftily avoiding having to move their Elf by putting him

Big fan! Shawn Johnson’s 5-month-old daughter, Drew, watched throwback videos of her mom competing in the Olympics for the first time. “Even though @shawnjohnson NEVER lets us watch her gymnastics, @olympicchannel wanted her to live tweet her performance,” Andrew East captioned a Tuesday, April 21, Instagram video. “So @drewhazeleast and I are having a blast.

Portia Smith’s most vivid memories of her daughter’s first year are of tears. Not the baby’s. Her own. “I would just hold her and cry all day,” Smith said. At 18, Smith was caring for two children, 4-year-old Kelaiah and newborn Nelly, with little help from the partner in her abusive relationship. The circumstances were

Mobile phone apps are increasingly being used to support breastfeeding decisions—sometimes at a cost, a Flinders University study indicates. The objective approach of most infant feeding (IF) apps gives mothers a perception of greater control, confidence and efficacy at a time of transition and stress in the early stages of parenting an infant, the study

Not private about their pregnancies! These celebrity moms have suffered from hyperemesis gravidarum and shared their stories about the tough time. The pregnancy complication, which is characterized by severe nausea and dehydration, takes morning sickness to an extreme. While mild cases are treated with dietary changes and rest, some mothers-to-be end up in the hospital

Always empowrering. Jessica Alba, Kylie Jenner and other celebrity moms have started their own businesses while raising their little ones. Although the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star created Kylie Cosmetics in 2015, three years before her and Travis Scott’s daughter Stormi’s birth, she launched Kylie Skin in May 2019 after becoming a mom. “KYLIE

Becoming a parent is a wonderful experience but it can also be incredibly daunting. There is no qualification or test you can take to make sure you’re ready; you have to rely on life experience, advice from friends, family and experts, and trial and error. But while most of the time we get parenting right,

Overdoses and suicides were among the most common reasons for mothers dying within a year of giving birth in California, according to a new study from Michigan State University and the University of California, Merced. Lead author Sidra Goldman-Mellor, a psychiatric epidemiologist at UC Merced, and co-author Claire Margerison, a perinatal epidemiologist at MSU, studied

It isn’t just you — when the school year ends, the parenting struggle is real. The kids are celebrating their newfound freedom, but you’re just wondering how you can possibly keep them entertained for the next few months. You know, while still doing everything on your own endless to-do list. As mom to 7-year-old Hazel,

If you spent your post-Mother’s Day brunch intermittently napping on the couch and scrolling through Instagram, you’re not alone (Bloody Marys and Eggs Benedict are basically Ambien). That also means you may have noticed something a little strange on your IG feed – all of your fave celeb moms were wearing the same thing! It’s

Here at SHE Media, we sure do love a good dad joke. But since we’re all about the badass women in our lives, we love a great #momstory even more. So this Mother’s Day, we asked our staffers to share their wackiest, most embarrassing, totally hilarious real-life stories about their moms. The results were side-splitting…

As the opioid epidemic rages on, one vulnerable group—new moms—have often been overlooked. A new study at the University of Utah Health found that drug-induced death is the most common cause of pregnancy-associated death in Utah. Postpartum women who have previously or currently struggle with substance abuse are at greater risk of overdosing. The research

Let’s admit it, anyone who is a parent has probably uttered these words or some derivative of them: “when I have children, I will never do that!” But once the children come, not only do we do those things… Somehow, without even thinking, we do strange things that we never could have imagined. Six brave

What a pair! Cory Wharton posted a father-daughter selfie to Instagram on Monday, March 4, with his 22-month-old baby girl, Ryder. “Early mornings cartoons,” the Teen Mom OG star, 27, captioned the pic. “Sorry you guys I haven’t been posting, I’m super paranoid about my teeth. I hate them I can’t wait to fix them.

TUESDAY, Feb. 26, 2019 — When times are tough, single moms tend to spend more on their children’s health care than on their own, a new study finds. But two-parent families are less likely to make that change, the researchers said. The study looked at how losing a job, money or health insurance affects a

We all know women are judged much more harshly than men. It seems we’re always perceived as too loud or too quiet, too reserved or too domineering, too nice or too cold. But somehow, mothers are judged even more harshly than any of us. There’s this idea floating around that there is one perfect type

Jessica Wayman, a mother and a recovering addict, posted photos of a changing area with black marks on it and revealed that it could be left over residue from drug use.  (iStock) A mother in Indiana is hoping to catch the attention of parents nationwide with her message about the importance of cleaning infant changing