BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Call for papers: Maternal mental health

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth is excited to launch a new collection which aims to bring together research on maternal mental health and mood during the perinatal period.

Guest Editors: Maggie Redshaw and Karen Wynter

We are recruiting new Editorial Board members

We are now recruiting Associate Editors for our Editorial Board to join our team of academic editors in assessing manuscripts in the field of pregnancy and childbirth.

BMC Series Focus Issues

November: Infection and health

The BMC Series journals would like to dedicate their November focus issue to the recent research into infections and health highlighting four key topics within research on infection - the biology, recent advances in detection and diagnosis, the risk factors and incidence reports and finally on the advances in treatment and combating of infection. Browse the articles in the focus issue further to learn more.

October: Focus on Stem Cells

With Stem Cell Awareness day on the 13th October this year we have compiled an article collection from across different BMC Series journals covering aspects of basic stem cell biology; in vitro differentiation studies; stem-cell based therapy studies for various conditions in animal models; technical advancements and ethical issues.

Associations of COVID-19 lockdown with gestational length and preterm birth in China

Authors: Moran Dong, Rui Qian, Jiaqi Wang, Jingjie Fan, Yufeng Ye, He Zhou, Brian Win, Eve Reid, Suijin Zheng, Yanyun Lv, Yudong Pu, Hanwei Chen, Juan Jin, Qingmei Lin, Xiaoyang Luo, Guimin Chen…

Content type: Research article

27 November 2021
Determinants of low birth weight among newborns delivered at Tirunesh Beijing General Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a case-control study

Authors: Mesfin Tadese, Abdulwahhab Seid Minhaji, Chalachew Tegegne Mengist, Fetene Kasahun and Getaneh Baye Mulu

Content type: Research

27 November 2021
Association of parental prepregnancy BMI with neonatal outcomes and birth defect in fresh embryo transfer cycles: a retrospective cohort study

Authors: Ruixue Chen, Lifen Chen, Yifeng Liu, Feixia Wang, Siwen Wang, Yun Huang, Kai-Lun Hu, Yuzhi Fan, Ruoyan Liu, Runjv Zhang and Dan Zhang

Content type: Research

27 November 2021
Non-invasive fetal electrocardiography, electrohysterography and speckle-tracking echocardiography in the second trimester: study protocol of a longitudinal prospective cohort study (BEATS-study)

Authors: T. J. Nichting, M. W. E. Frenken, D. A. A. van der Woude, N. H. M. van Oostrum, C. M. de Vet, B. G. van Willigen, J. O. E. H. van Laar, M. van der Ven and S. G. Oei

Content type: Study protocol

25 November 2021
A randomized group antenatal care pilot showed increased partner communication and partner HIV testing during pregnancy in Malawi and Tanzania

Authors: Rohan D. Jeremiah, Dhruvi R. Patel, Ellen Chirwa, Esnath Kapito, Xiaohan Mei, Linda L. McCreary, Kathleen F. Norr, Li Liu and Crystal L. Patil

Content type: Research

24 November 2021

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Teenage pregnancy: the impact of maternal adolescent childbearing and older sister’s teenage pregnancy on a younger sister

Authors: Elizabeth Wall-Wieler, Leslie L. Roos and Nathan C. Nickel

Content type: Research article

25 May 2016
Responses to gestational weight management guidance: a thematic analysis of comments made by women in online parenting forums

Authors: Madelynne A Arden, Alexandra MS Duxbury and Hora Soltani

Content type: Research article

30 June 2014
“My midwife said that having a glass of red wine was actually better for the baby”: a focus group study of women and their partner’s knowledge and experiences relating to alcohol consumption in pregnancy

Authors: Fiona Crawford-Williams, Mary Steen, Adrian Esterman, Andrea Fielder and Antonina Mikocka-Walus

Content type: Research article

1 April 2015
A translational approach to studying preterm labour

Authors: Rachel Marie Tribe

Content type: Proceedings

1 June 2007
Correlation study between increased fetal movement during the third trimester and neonatal outcome

Authors: Cuiqin Huang, Wei Han and Yajing Fan

Content type: Research article

4 December 2019

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Aims and scope

BMC Pregnancy & Childbirth is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of pregnancy and childbirth. The journal welcomes submissions on the biomedical aspects of pregnancy, breastfeeding, labor, maternal health, maternity care, trends and sociological aspects of pregnancy and childbirth.

Peer Review Taxonomy

This journal is participating in a pilot of NISO/STM's Working Group on Peer Review Taxonomy, to identify and standardize definitions and terminology in peer review practices in order to make the peer review process for articles and journals more transparent. Further information on the pilot is available here.

The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal:

Identity transparency: Single anonymized
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BMC Series Community Site

The BMC Series Community Site serves as a home for editorial board resources and as an online community, facilitating interaction and networking between the Editorial Board and the BMC series in-house team.

Get credit for your data!

Valuable data often go unpublished when they could be helping to progress science. Hence, the BMC Series introduced Data notes, a short article type allowing you to describe your data and publish them to make your data easier to find, cite and share.

You can publish your data in BMC Genomic Data (genomic, transcriptomic and high-throughput genotype data) or in BMC Research Notes (data from across all natural and clinical sciences).

More information about our unique article type can be found on the BMC Genomic Data and BMC Research Notes journal websites.

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Associations of COVID-19 lockdown with gestational length and preterm birth in China

Determinants of low birth weight among newborns delivered at Tirunesh Beijing General Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a case-control study

Association of parental prepregnancy BMI with neonatal outcomes and birth defect in fresh embryo transfer cycles: a retrospective cohort study

Non-invasive fetal electrocardiography, electrohysterography and speckle-tracking echocardiography in the second trimester: study protocol of a longitudinal prospective cohort study (BEATS-study)

A randomized group antenatal care pilot showed increased partner communication and partner HIV testing during pregnancy in Malawi and Tanzania

Teenage pregnancy: the impact of maternal adolescent childbearing and older sister’s teenage pregnancy on a younger sister

Responses to gestational weight management guidance: a thematic analysis of comments made by women in online parenting forums

“My midwife said that having a glass of red wine was actually better for the baby”: a focus group study of women and their partner’s knowledge and experiences relating to alcohol consumption in pregnancy

A translational approach to studying preterm labour

Correlation study between increased fetal movement during the third trimester and neonatal outcome

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