High-risk pregnancy can lead to anxiety or depression for expecting mothers, and it can have an effect on expecting fathers as well. In this blog post, the author of a new paper in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth discuss their findings in the under-studied area of fatherhood and high-risk pregnancy.
Access to skilled maternity care is crucial for reducing maternal mortality and morbidity and meeting the Sustainable Development Goals, but barriers to access remain in many contexts, including rural communities in Nigeria. In this blog post, the author of a new paper in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth discusses the development and outcomes of Text4Life, a mobile-phone based intervention to increase pregnant women’s access to skilled maternity care in rural Nigeria.