BACKGROUND: Information on the extent of postpartum maternal morbidity in developing countries is extremely limited. In many settings, data from hospital-based studies is hard to interpret because of the small proportion of women that have access to medical care. However, in those areas with good uptake of health care, the measurement of the type and incidence of complications severe enough to ...

BACKGROUND Research examining long-term health outcomes for women after childbirth has been limited. The objective of this study was to investigate the natural history of common morbidities in the 18 months after the birth of a first child, and to explore the hypothesis that women who have a cesarean section for a first birth experience less overall morbidity in the postnatal period. METHODS ...

Introduction Post-traumatic stress disorder, following of a particular intensity, is often related to the perception childbirth as traumatic event requiring optimization follow-up and interest early detection. Objectives To determine factors associated with post-traumatic disorder childbirth. Methods This longitudinal prospective analytical study carried out in obstetrics gynecology department ...

Introduction The period following childbirth poses physiological, physical, social and psychological challenges to women that may affect their quality of life. Few studies in Africa have explored women’s health-related life (HrQoL) its determinants postpartum populations, including the relationships with male partners. We investigated whether relationship satisfaction was associated better HrQo...

Unassisted delivery or assisted by untrained or unskilled birth attendance is a public health issue associated with maternal mortality and morbidity around the world. A birth attendant, is a midwife, physician, obstetrician, nurse, or other health care professional who provides basic and emergency health care services to women and their newborns during pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum p...

Objective: knowing the experience of postpartum women regarding companion during labour and childbirth in COVID-19 pandemic. Method: descriptive-exploratory study with a mixed method approach, developed two stages: use Termômetro da Iniciativa Hospital Amigo Mulher e Criança tool semi-structured interviews between May December 2020. The data obtained quantitative approach were analyzed descript...

BACKGROUND Current research suggests that women married to military service members may experience difficulty during the transition to motherhood attributable to the additional stressors of military life and inability to access traditional support systems. OBJECTIVE To test the effects of a nursing intervention on prenatal and postpartum maternal role adaptation among military wives. METHOD...

abstract background: the experience of labor and birth, referred to as childbirth, is complex, multidimensional, and subjective, relating to both the outcome and the process that is experienced by an individual woman. the aim of this study was to describe the experience of childbirth among kurdish women giving birth at besat hospital in sanandaj, iran. materials and methods: a qualitative study...

In this review, we describe postpartum sleep as characterized by marked fragmentation, resulting in nearuniversal fatigue during the initial postpartum period. This sleep disturbance and fatigue are major contributing factors to the onset of affect and mood disturbance, which in turn is strongly associated with an increase in negative infant-parent interactions and adverse infant emotional and ...