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• Covid-19 vaccine safe during pregnancy: US CDC

  The CDC recommends that pregnant people receive the Covid-19 vaccine, NPR.org reported CDC Director Rochelle Walensky as saying.

  

• Baby at risk if pregnant mom gets Covid

  A pregnant woman’s exposure to Covid-19 can potentially increase the risk of her newborn getting multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C) — in which some of the organs and tissues such as the heart, lungs, blood vessels, kidneys, digestive system, brain, skin or eyes — become severely inflamed.

  

• Ahmedabad: Covid kinder to pregnant women, says study

  The period of study witnessed 94 live births, two deaths after delivery and three abortions. In 23 women, the pregnancy was continued. The live births included two twins. All were tested for Covid-19 infection and only 16 were found to be positive.

  

• Dengue among pregnant women, newborns worries Bengaluru doctors

  While the state health department claims there has been a decline in the number of cases in the last one month, city hospitals are seeing dengue among newborns and pregnant women.

  

• Government looking at enhancing, extending maternity benefits

  The proposal, if it goes through, is likely to cost an additional Rs 400 core to the government if it agrees to reimburse the cost for seven more weeks.

  

• Babies born to overweight women are 3.5 times more at risk of diabetes

  According to a recent study, babies born to obese mothers are three times more likely to develop Type-2 diabetes later in their life.

  

• Bombay high court denies abortion plea for fetus with gene defects

  This was for the first time in such a case that the court directed the setting up of a panel (the second one) made exclusively of mental health experts (from JJ Hospital).

  

• Odisha's first delivery van for pregnant women rolls out

  The vehicle is equipped with all necessary facilities for delivery of a child. At least two staff nurses, attendants and vehicle driver along with essential drugs and consumables are stocked in the van to facilitate delivery of a woman in an emergency case.

  

• Docs snatch mom-to-be, baby from jaws of death

  Doctors said that Meena was in labour and her pulse rate had dropped rapidly to 38 bpm. A normal pregnant women pulse rate should always be between 70-90 bpm.

  

• Woman delivers stillborn, family blames hospital

  After examining Rani, doctors advised her family to take her to a bigger hospital where better medical facilities are available.

  

• Central team sent to Jaipur after 8 more people test positive for Zika infection

  According to the World Health Organization's classification scheme on the prevalence of Zika virus, India is in category 2, indicating ongoing transmission of the virus.