About Us

Pregnancy News has been designed as a resource to track news stories on pregnancy, birth, and maternity care

This blog has been created by a team of maternity care researchers
at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

We recognize the importance of increasing the public dialogue surrounding pregnancy and birth & we hope that this blog can be a resource and public tool for evaluating the media’s discussion of pregnancy, birth, and maternity care.

We do not necessarily support the opinions expressed in the articles that have been posted on this site.

We encourage participation on this site!
Please share your thoughts in the comment sections.

This blog provides a public database of news stories – categorized by topic.

This blog and its authors will Not provide medical advice or recommendations.

To find out more about our research, visit: www.maternitycare.ca

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