Maternal Characteristics and U.S. Prenatal Care: Associations with Neonatal Health and Postpartum Maternal Wellbeing.

ABSTRACT: Prenatal care provides an opportunity for the promotion of healthy parent and neonatal outcomes, but there are gaps in understanding the consequences and antecedents of prenatal care experiences during pregnancy. The objective of the current study was to provide insight into the mediational processes of sociodemographic and pregnancy characteristics on neonatal health and postpartum maternal wellbeing outcomes through prenatal care experiences. Data were analyzed from the publicly available Listening to Mothers III dataset comprised of 2,400 online-survey participants (ages 18-45) who gave birth to singleton infants in hospitals between July 2011 and June 2012 in the U.S. Primary analyses were conducted using two separate path analysis models examining maternal characteristics (i.e., socio

SUBMITTER: Nordgren I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12460427 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature