EBB 164 - Updated Evidence on COVID-19 and Pregnancy
Evidence Based Birth®
Rebecca Dekker
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🗓️ 17 February 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
I'm pleased to share with you today's podcast episode, which is a comprehensive update of the research evidence on COVID-19 and pregnancy and childbirth!
To view the scientific references for this article, visit the COVID-19 resource page here and look for the February 17, 2021 podcast episode text.
In this podcast episode, I cover:
- The current global situation
- What we know so far about prevention/vaccines during pregnancy
- Testing and diagnosis
- Symptoms during pregnancy
- Risk of hospitalization and severe/critical illness in pregnancy
- Treatment of COVID-19 during pregnancy
- Risks to the fetus, including the risk of preterm birth
- Timing of birth if you're infected with COVID-19
- Whether its possible to transmit COVID-19 to the fetus in utero
- Antibody transfer during pregnancy and through human milk
- Newborn outcomes and best practices when a baby is born to an infected parent
- Hospital policies on permitting birth partners
- Hospital policies on permitting doulas
- Changes we've seen to labor and delivery practices during the pandemic
- Where you can go to read guidelines from professional organizations
I hope that this podcast episode is helpful! I'm happy that our research team was able to put it together for you.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone on today's podcast we're going to talk about the updated evidence on |
| 0:04.4 | COVID-19 and pregnancy. |
| 0:06.4 | Welcome to the Evidence-Based Birth Podcast. My name is Rebecca Decker and I'm a nurse with my PhD and the founder of Evidence |
| 0:17.1 | Space Birth. |
| 0:18.3 | Join me each week as we work together to get evidence-based information |
| 0:22.4 | into the hands of families and |
| 0:24.1 | professionals around the world. As a reminder, this information is not medical |
| 0:28.8 | advice. See EBBirth.com slash disclaimer for more details. |
| 0:36.0 | Hi everyone. It has been a while since we published a comprehensive update on the evidence on COVID-19 and its effects on pregnancy. |
| 0:45.2 | So Anna Bertoni, our research editor at Evidence Space Birth and I, decided it was time to put together |
| 0:50.5 | a thorough overview of what we now know about COVID-19 and pregnancy and we know a lot more than we did a year ago. |
| 0:59.0 | Before I get started, I have a quick announcement to make. |
| 1:02.0 | A week from today, we will now have back in stock the |
| 1:05.8 | evidence-based birth pocket guides in our shop. The evidence-based birth pocket guides are |
| 1:11.3 | quick reference guides that you can use at a birth, either as a birth |
| 1:15.7 | professional or as an expecting parent. We have a pocket guide on comfort measures |
| 1:20.5 | for labor and birth and we have a pocket guide on labor induction. |
| 1:25.5 | They are laminated on a key ring so they're durable, fun, easy to flip through and super |
| 1:30.7 | informative. |
| 1:32.0 | It just basically condenses all of the research evidence on those topics |
| 1:35.3 | into this handy pocket guide that can fit in a scrub pocket or a backpack. |
| 1:39.3 | We sold these pocket guides last November and our combo pack where you get a set of two at a discounted price |
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