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In far West Texas, some residents have to trek hours to find maternal care, endangering themselves and their babies. Dawn Cockrell is their only other option.

With limited evidence of mother-to-baby transmission, some hospitals are taking precautions with self isolation.

For now, there are more questions than answers.

Americans are waiting longer than ever to have children. 

Today, one in three American mothers gets major surgery during delivery, despite evidence that this rate of intervention is excessive.

Nevertheless, research shows polyam families offer serious benefits to their kids.

A new study of Hurricane Harvey data shows how much havoc big storms wreak on newborns.

And the CDC is particularly concerned about newborns with syphilis.

But there’s still a lot we don’t know.

Our editors scrounged up some truly bizarre facts.