BACKGROUND The proportion of women who give birth after assisted reproduction technology (ART) treatment is increasing. To date, little is known about their experience of childbirth. One of the aims of this study was to investigate the experience of childbirth and the post-natal healthcare after ART. METHODS A prospective, longitudinal study of a systematically recruited consecutive cohort of...

BACKGROUND It is unclear how safe the use of Chinese herbal medicine is during pregnancy and if the herbal medicines do any harm to pregnancy, embryo-fetal development and prenatal and post-natal growth. A large-scale preclinical study was conducted to detect the adverse effects of Chinese herbal medicines during pregnancy. METHODS Twenty of the most commonly used Chinese herbal medicines pre...

This work tests the psychometric features of the Wijma Delivery Expectancy/Experience Questionnaire (WDEQ), a self-report instrument that measures the fear of childbirth, in an Italian sample. To 522 Italian primiparous women attending antenatal classes, the following assessments were administered: Wijma Delivery Expectancy/Experience Questionnaire (Wijma, Wijma, & Zar, 1998), StateTrait Anxiet...

an eleven-day boy neonate with a fetal anamnesis of grade 1 bilateral hydronephrosis according to the grading of the society for fetal urology (sfu), came to our attention for an acute osteoarthritis secondary to urosepsis. in the urological follow-up, a severe bilateral vesico-ureteral reflux (vur) was diagnosed. an early post-natal, reno-vesicle ultrasound evaluation could have changed the cl...

This systematic review aims to assess the effect of mindfulness-based interventions carried out during pregnancy exploring mindfulness and mental health outcomes. A systematic review was conducted to appraise the current literature on the subject area. Inclusion and exclusion criteria were agreed and after reviewing titles, abstracts and full papers, 14 articles met the inclusion criteria and w...