Objective: Change of healthcare model in normal childbirth, health authorities interest in exploring childbirth expectations of pregnant women, and their cultural and social specificity make relevant the study of these expectations at this moment. The aim is to know what are the childbirth expectations from a sample of Spanish pregnant women and to study the differences between primiparous and ...

BACKGROUND Postpartum visits (PPVs) have been advocated as a way to improve health outcomes for mothers and their infants, but the rate of PPVs is still low in rural China. This study aims to investigate the utilization of PPVs and to explore the factors associated with PPVs in rural China. Parity is the most concerned factor in this study. METHODS A cross-sectional household survey was perfo...

Twenty-eight primiparous and 62 multiparous sows were bred and assigned to gestation treatments in which they were fed diets conraining O, 20 or 40% brewers d r i ed grains (BDG). Diets were formulated to be equal in lysine content and were hand fed to supply equal levels of metabolizable energy per sow daily. All sows received a 15% protein corn-soybean meal diet during a 21-day lactation peri...

The objectives of this review are to describe the use of pedometry on commercial dairy farms in Israel, to evaluate its efficiency in heat detection and to describe a clinical trial comparing between pedometry and the Ovsynch technique. Pedometry is the major tool of heat detection on most farms in Israel today. On many farms automated electronic pedometry is the sole mean of heat detection. Pr...

OBJECTIVE This study assessed the influence of socioeconomic position at 12 years of age (SEP-12) on the variability in cesarean rates later in life. METHODS As part of the Portuguese Generation XXI birth cohort we evaluated 7358 women with a singleton pregnancy who delivered at five Portuguese public hospitals serving the region of Porto (April/2005-September/2006). Based on the twelve items...

BACKGROUND There has been much discussion about whether female feticide occurs in certain immigrant groups in Canada. We examined data on live births in Ontario and compared sex ratios in different groups according to the mother's country or region of birth and parity. METHODS We completed a population-based study of 766,688 singleton live births between 2002 and 2007. We used birth records p...

Knowledge of periparturient longitudinal changes in sow microbiota composition is necessary to fully understand her role the development piglet microbiota, but also improve gut health and performance lactation. Primiparous sows face challenge partitioning nutrients support maternal growth addition supporting foetal demands Additional metabolic stress present during period may induce profile bet...

Objective: To determine frequency of thrombocytopenia among pregnant women Study Design: Descriptive cross sectional study. Place and Duration Study: Department Gynaecology & Obstetrics from 1st May 2018 to 30th November 2018. Methodology: One hundred fifty seven reproductive age 15-45 years, who were normotensive without any malarial parasite or platelet aggregation seen on peripheral film...