A report released Wednesday by Massachusetts health officials found rates of severe maternal health complications nearly doubled in the state from 2011 to 2020, with Black women experiencing the highest rates of labor and delivery problems. Severe maternal morbidity refers to unexpected complications during labor and delivery that result in significant health problems. The report looked back at 678,382 deliveries, including live births and fetal deaths, among 483,699 Massachusetts residents from 2011 to 2020. The report found that overall rates of severe maternal morbidity nearly doubled from 52.3 per 10,000 deliveries in 2011 to 100.4 per 10,000 deliveries in 2020,