Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- * Pregnant women between 16-35 weeks gestation
- * Age 18-44 years
- * Ability to speak English, Spanish, or Marshallese
- * Participants may have either a vaginal birth or cesarean section birth
Exclusion Criteria:
- * Type 1 diabetes on an insulin pump followed closely by endocrinology
- * Uncontrolled Type 2 diabetes
- * End stage renal disease followed closely by nephrology
- * ICU admission at any point during pregnancy or delivery hospitalization
- * Other maternal conditions requiring additional surgeries (i.e. cesarean hysterectomy or intrapartum or postpartum oophorectomy/appendectomy)
- * Incarceration
- * Mental disability limiting decision-making capacity
- * Uncontrolled chronic hypertension
- * HELLP syndrome during pregnancy
- * Sickle cell disease
- * Maternal heart condition or heart disease
- * Opioid use disorder
- * Lupus
- * Thrombophilia or blood clots
- * Need for blood transfusion during delivery hospitalization
- * Other maternal conditions or complications, known during pregnancy or delivery hospitalization, requiring prolonged hospitalization postpartum
Ages Eligible for Study:
18 Years to 44 Years (ADULT)
Sexes Eligible for Study: FEMALE
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Yes