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Postpartum: later-stage trial registry

11 of 17 indexed Postpartum trials are currently recruiting, with more weight in Phase 3-4.

Corpus placement: #1,004 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count.

17 US clinical trials · 11 currently recruiting · #1,004 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count

Postpartum: 17 US clinical trials tracked, 11 recruiting.

Postpartum is the subject of 17 registered US clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov, 11 of them currently open to new participants. 2 are in Phase 3-4 (later-stage) and 1 in Phase 1-2 (earlier-stage). The most active sponsor is Northwestern University, running 2 of these trials.

Enrollment posture brief

Registry condition postpartum

OPEN 11 | RECR 65% | LATE 2 | EARLY 1 | RANK #1004 | SPON 2

Nearest open-share peer: Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) (65% recruiting · 17 trials)

Acute Myeloid Leukemia, in R70.6%Postpartum (this)65%Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm52.9%Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia23.5%Actinic Keratosis11.8%
Open-enrollment share among volume-matched conditions near Postpartum

Postpartum lists 11 open slots (65% of 17 indexed trials). Peers are matched on registered volume, not therapeutic-area browse lists. How peer matching works →

Key findings

What ClinicalTrials.gov does not surface for Postpartum on its own pages , computed from the registry mirror as of 2026-08-08. Each line carries its own denominator so it can be quoted as it stands.

  1. Postpartum is recruiting above its size-band peers.

    11 of 17 indexed trials (64.7%) are open to enrollment, against a 46.5% average across 27,806 conditions with fewer than 20 trials. The peer set uses the same ClinicalTrials.gov-derived counts as this page.

  2. Sponsorship of Postpartum trials is spread across many organizations.

    Northwestern University accounts for 2 of 17 trials (11.8%). 15 distinct sponsors appear on at least one study for this condition label.

  3. Typical Postpartum enrolment sits around 60 participants.

    Median target enrolment is 60 among the 17 trials that report a genuine target (sentinel values excluded). 10 of those (58.8%) plan for fewer than 100 participants.

  4. Postpartum research is mostly interventional.

    14 interventional and 3 observational studies make up this index (82.4% interventional). Study type is sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov.

Phase 11Phase 42

Open and recent trials

17 total, page 1 of 1

RECRUITING NA 1,320 participants

Facilitated Transitions From Postpartum to Primary Care Coordination for People With Chronic Conditions

Massachusetts General Hospital

NCT06557005

RECRUITING 550 participants

External Trigeminal Nerve Stimulation for Migraine Treatment in Pregnancy

Cefaly Technology

NCT06788977

RECRUITING NA 400 participants

HOPE-BP 2.0: Evaluating the Optimal Duration of Postpartum Remote Blood Pressure Monitoring

University of Minnesota

NCT07204756

RECRUITING NA 176 participants

Mobile Application-based Exercise Intervention for Pregnant Women

Western Kentucky University

NCT05849649

RECRUITING NA 60 participants

Digital Maternal Support Tool Implementation

University of Pittsburgh

NCT07295015

RECRUITING NA 58 participants

Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapy as Part of the Postpartum Care Continuum

Brooke Army Medical Center

NCT06560190

RECRUITING Phase 4 50 participants

Drug Excretion in Breast Milk

University of Washington

NCT06056583

RECRUITING NA 40 participants

Substance Use in Pregnant People - Optimizing Retention in Treatment

Washington University School of Medicine

NCT07104123

RECRUITING NA 40 participants

Novel Visual Education Tool to Improve Recognition and Reporting of Postpartum Urgent Maternal Warning Signs

Northwestern University

NCT06912776

RECRUITING Phase 1 10 participants

Excretion of Rivaroxaban in Human Breast Milk

Thomas Jefferson University

NCT06831474

RECRUITING NA 10 participants

Tailored Resistance Training After Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes

University of Michigan

NCT07058818

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING NA 450 participants

upREACH Perinatal Home Visitation Program

Baylor College of Medicine

NCT06133829

COMPLETED 494 participants

Postpartum Opioid Prescribing Patterns and Patient Utilization

Northwestern University

NCT03030742

COMPLETED 154 participants

Post-delivery Maternal-offspring Obesity and Metabolic Risk After a Prepregnancy Weight-loss Intervention

Kaiser Permanente

NCT06067126

COMPLETED Phase 4 96 participants

Postpartum Etonogestrel Implant for Adolescents

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

NCT01666912

COMPLETED NA 56 participants

Core Strengthening for DRA in Postpartum Women

Hospital for Special Surgery, New York

NCT03595696

COMPLETED NA 50 participants

Enhancing Postpartum Discharge Instructions

Thomas Jefferson University

NCT03592628

Phase Distribution

PhaseTrial count
Phase 1 1
Phase 4 2

Named interventions

Most-linked intervention names on Postpartum records (sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov). Counts are trial links, not unique products.

Standard Instructions Other
1 trials
Visual Aid Other
1 trials
Core Muscle Strength Training Other
1 trials
Contraceptive implant Drug
1 trials
upREACH Home Visitation Program Behavioral
1 trials
Smartphone application Other
1 trials
Participant will view a visual aid picture (appendix B) first Other
1 trials
Participant will view a visual aid picture (appendix A) first Other
1 trials

US sites by state

Facility locations filed on Postpartum trials. A trial with sites in several states counts in each.

Pennsylvania 3 trials
Texas 2 trials
Illinois 2 trials
Washington 1 trials
Oregon 1 trials
New York 1 trials
North Carolina 1 trials
Missouri 1 trials

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, National Library of Medicine. Data is informational only.

What to do with this Postpartum page

17 registered trials, 11 currently recruiting, is a starting point for a conversation, not a diagnosis or a recommendation.

Trial and recruiting counts reflect ClinicalTrials.gov registry status as of the data vintage above; individual trial eligibility and enrollment status can change.

Every figure on PlainTrial is rendered directly from the ClinicalTrials.gov registry, no number is typed in by an editor. This Postpartum condition card totals 17 registered trials; most-linked intervention Standard Instructions; top US site state Pennsylvania. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data error.