Preterm birth: Understanding a mother’s experience

Neonatal outcomes after preterm birth by mothers’ health insurance status at birth: a retrospective cohort study

BACKGROUND Publicly insured women usually have a different demographic background to privately insured women, which is related to poor neonatal outcomes after birth. Given the difference in nature and risk of preterm versus term births, it would be important to compare adverse neonatal outcomes after preterm birth between these groups of women after eliminating the demographic differences betwe...

Barriers of Parenting in Mothers with a Very Low- Birth- Weight Preterm Infant, and their Coping Strategies: A Qualitative Study

Background Becoming a mother is one of the most important life changing events that a woman experience. The birth of very-low-birth-weight preterm infants imposes many challenges for the mothers. There is insufficient information regarding the mothers' experiences on the process of becoming a mother when their preterm infants are in neonatal intensive care units (NICU). The aim of this study wa...

Second births to teenage mothers: risk factors for low birth weight and preterm birth.

CONTEXT Teenagers are more likely than older women to have a low-birth-weight infant or a preterm birth, and the risks may be particularly high when they have a second birth. Identifying predictors of these outcomes in second teenage births is essential for developing preventive strategies. METHODS Birth certificate data for 1993-2002 were linked to identify second births to Milwaukee teenage...

mothers’ experience of having a preterm infant in the neonatal intensive care unit, a phenomenological study

aims : understanding the experiences of mothers could be as a strategy for the physicians, nurses who are working in nicu and administrators in the care centers in order to provide supports for parents, particularly mothers and an effective step to improve the quality of nursing care of premature infants and their parents.   methods : in this study, one of the qualitative research methods as de...

Preterm birth