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The American Academy of Pediatrics changes its policy citing drugs used to treat HIV can reduce the risk of passing the virus to infants to less than 1%. About 5,000 people who have HIV give birth in the U.S. each year.

Mothers across Gainesville navigate the emotions, pains and questions of breastfeeding in the months leading up to and after pregnancy.

A study published in the journal Pediatrics suggests COVID-19 caused severe brain damage in two babies born in Miami.

Despite years of efforts to reduce the use of cesarean sections in delivering babies, rates remain high, especially in the South. Black women, particularly, are more likely to give birth by C-section.

“The first thing to remember is that we were all in the same storm, but we were not all in the same boat,” says psychology professor Sharon Carnahan, executive director of the Hume Child Development Center.

The bill would allow babies up to 30 days old to be placed in a “newborn infant safety device” located on exterior walls of fire stations, emergency medical-services stations or hospitals.

You wouldn't know it by looking at her but, according to her mother, Sandra Lobaina was a biter. “I bit her," said Lobaina, smiling, when asked to...

The U.S. has the worst rate of maternal deaths in the developed world: Sixty percent of the 700 to 900 deaths each year are preventable, including that of neonatal nurse Lauren Bloomstein.