UNC Collaborative for Maternal & Infant Health

UNC Collaborative for Maternal & Infant Health

Improving the health of North Carolina's women and infants

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Your voice is needed to create the 1st woman-centered, postpartum, self-care website

August 29, 2018 by Suzanne Woodward

We are seeking your voice! The 4thTrimester Project, with the support of the Global Health Foundation, is creating the first woman-centered website to address postpartum self-care questions and needs. Please take a few minutes to partner with us: http://bit.ly/4thtrimestersurvey. Thank you!  Missed our newsletter? Click here to view.  Details: The 4th Trimester, the first 12 weeks… Read More →

Filed Under: 4th Trimester Project Tagged With: 4th trimester, digital health, motherhood, Mothers, parents, postpartum, postpartum care, postpartum health, social media

What is the 4th Trimester Project?

December 31, 2015 by Kristin Tully

In the 12 weeks following delivery, a woman must recover from childbirth, adapt to changing hormones, and learn to feed and care for her newborn. During this “4th Trimester,” many women experience considerable challenges, including fatigue, pain, breastfeeding difficulties, depression, lack of sexual desire and incontinence. Amid these concerns, postpartum care is often fragmented among… Read More →

Filed Under: 4th Trimester Project, Uncategorized Tagged With: About, Childbirth, Engagement, Infant feeding, Maternal mood, Mothers, News, PCORI

Work Plan

December 18, 2015 by Kristin Tully

New mother-infant dyads are at risk for a host of clinical concerns, including unmet breastfeeding goals, perinatal mood disorders, unsafe infant sleep practices, incontinence, tobacco recidivism, chronic disease and lack of access to acceptable contraception. These problems are extraordinarily common – affecting between one quarter and more than half of the 4 million women who… Read More →

Filed Under: 4th Trimester Project, Uncategorized Tagged With: About, Engagement, Mothers, UNC Chapel Hill

The 4th Trimester

December 18, 2015 by Kristin Tully

The term “4th Trimester” reflects the concept that during the first months of life, newborns continue to function like a fetus in many ways; they require months of intense, ‘womb-like’ nurturing. A 4th Trimester perspective views the mother and infant as a mutually dependent unit, behaviorally and physiologically intertwined via breastfeeding and other interactions such… Read More →

Filed Under: 4th Trimester Project, Uncategorized Tagged With: About, Childbirth, Mothers

Maternal Mood

December 18, 2015 by Kristin Tully

Maternal Mood Key questions Patients: What did you know about perinatal mood disorders? What guidance was provided prenatally? In the hospital? By pediatric and maternity providers? If you were screened for depression with a questionnaire, how was it explained / put in context? If you screened positive or had symptoms, what care was offered? If… Read More →

Filed Under: 4th Trimester Project, Uncategorized Tagged With: Engagement, Maternal mood, Mothers, Providers, Questions, Themes

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UPDATED: UNC Health Inpatient Visitor Restrictions

Effective September 21: UNC Medical Center Inpatient Visitor Restrictions Visiting hours 9 a.m. – 9 p.m. Adult inpatients will be allowed 1 visitor during the day (9 a.m. – 9 p.m.) and 1 visitor at night (9 p.m. – 9 a.m.) COVID-19 positive patients will continue to have no visitors (except for laboring women, who… Read More →

UNC Collaborative for Maternal and Infant Health aims to improve the health and well-being of women and families across North Carolina through community partnerships, research and clinical care innovations, and developing new approaches to complex problems.

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