Contemporary Labor Patterns and Maternal Age

Contemporary patterns of spontaneous labor with normal neonatal outcomes.

OBJECTIVE To use contemporary labor data to examine the labor patterns in a large, modern obstetric population in the United States. METHODS Data were from the Consortium on Safe Labor, a multicenter retrospective study that abstracted detailed labor and delivery information from electronic medical records in 19 hospitals across the United States. A total of 62,415 parturients were selected w...

Impact of labor induction, gestational age, and maternal age on cesarean delivery rates.

OBJECTIVE To quantify the impact of labor induction and maternal age on cesarean delivery rates in nulliparous and multiparous women between 36 and 42 weeks' gestation. METHODS We performed a retrospective cohort study on 14,409 women delivering at two teaching hospitals in metropolitan Boston during 1998 and 1999. Women who had contraindications to labor, including a prior cesarean delivery,...

Maternal Factors and Labor Interventions Predicting Shoulder Dystocia

 Background and purpose: Shoulder dystocia is an obstetrics emergency which could be prevented by identifying its predictors and taking effective measures. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between maternal factors and interventions for shoulder dystocia. Materials and methods: In this descriptive correlational study, we studied 6520 delivery files in a hospital in Sabzev...

Patterns of Maternal Weight Gain During Pregnancy and Birth Weight

Anthropometric parameters are an important indicator of health and nutritional status comprising the whole span of mans life. However, they are not of the same degree of simplicity and sensitivity in assessing the public health status. During recent decades many studies have attempted to examine the relationships of these measurements in order to present simple alternatives for similar purposes...

Mothers who kill: cross-cultural patterns in and perspectives on contemporary maternal filicide.