About this journal
With a large and dedicated global readership and a section focusing on research in low and middle income countries, BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth is a well-established open-access journal welcoming research on the biomedical aspects of pregnancy, breastfeeding, labor, maternal health, maternity care, fetal medicine, trends, and sociological aspects of pregnancy and childbirth. This journal is part of the BMC series, a collection of journals that are focused on individual research communities, publishing all scientifically valid studies based on community-aligned standards of questioning, methods and analysis.