BACKGROUND Decision making for timing motherhood is one of the vital aspects of reproductive health. Separating sexual relationship from having a child has led to a different and unprecedented lifestyle in human history. OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to determine the socioeconomic and emotional factors predicting decision making for timing motherhood among Iranian women using the...

The perinatal period can be challenging and yet reluctance to disclose wellbeing concerns health professionals is well documented. current study sought explore how women use online parenting forums seek advice support for maternal mental concerns. Forum threads (N = 153) from a popular UK website were analysed postpartum mothers’ discussions about their health. Through reflexive thematic analys...

INTRODUCTION Speech delay in a child could be the cause and/or result of the emotional disorder. The child rearing attitude that the parents have accepted could have both positive and negative effects on the personality of the child. OBJECTIVE The current study aimed to investigate the sociodemographic features and the mothers' anxiety of children with speech delay. METHODS One hundred five...

ObjectivesTo assess the level of awareness about Antenatal and Postnatal care in rural women, to understand health seeking patterns pregnant relate socio-economic factors patterns, provide interventions.MethodologyA prospective interventional study was conducted over a period 6 months among patients government district hospital Kerala; three phases: pre interventional, post phase.ResultsBefore ...

According to the latest estimates of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), 529,000 women still die every year from complications of their pregnancy, and nearly 90% of these deaths are in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia [1]. Obstetric complications continue to represent the major cause among women of childbearing age, far ahead o...

she returns to time and time again in her many interviews and articles. In her reflections on motherhood, both inside and outside her fiction, Morrison articulates a fully developed theory of African American mothering that is central to her larger political and philosophical stance on black womanhood. Building upon black women’s experiences of, and perspectives on motherhood, Morrison develops...

Needle biopsy is widely used to obtain specimens for physiological, anatomical and biochemical studies of skeletal muscle (SM). We optimized a procedure which we termed tiny percutaneous needle biopsy (TPNB), to efficiently gather good numbers of human satellite cells and single dissociated fibers for the functional study of skeletal muscle; these samples permit isolation of high-quality RNA an...

Excited states in the well-deformed rare earth isotopes Sm and Er were populated via “safe” Coulomb excitation at the Munich MLL Tandem accelerator. Conversion electrons were registered in a cooled Si(Li) detector in conjunction with a magnetic transport and filter system, the Mini-Orange spectrometer. For the first excited 0 state in Sm at 1099 keV a large value of the monopole strength for th...

BACKGROUND The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has adopted an approach entitled Community Conversation (CC) to improve community engagement in addressing health challenges. CCs are based on Paulo Freire's transformative communication approach, in which communities pose problems and critically examine their everyday life experiences through discussion. We adopted this approach to eng...

INTRODUCTION Lack of information on the warning signs of complications during pregnancy, parturition and postpartum hampers women's ability to partake fully in safe motherhood initiatives. We assessed the extent to which women in 19 countries of sub-Saharan Africa recall receiving information about pregnancy complications during antenatal care for the most recent pregnancy, and examined the imp...