Primiparous mothers will experience various breastfeeding problems because it is the first experience, especially for working mothers. Therefore, they need to get support from their families, mainly grandmothers. This study aims analyze correlation between grandmother's and exclusive primiparous working. study, conducted in Arjowinangun Community Health Center coverage area, Malang, used a cros...

The aim of the presented study was to estimate the influence of the traits of hoof measurement in dairy cows on claw disorders, lameness, and locomotion scores were determined. Data on claw health and measurement trait of claws were collected from 68 primiparous cows housed in tie stalls and from 76 primiparous cows housed in free stalls. Data were collected during professional claw trimming. T...

In order to investigate the relationship between insulin to glucagon ratio and metabolic factors in transitional period of dairy cows, 28 cows heifers with body condition score of 3.25- 3.75 were selected. Dairy cows received close up diet, from 21 days prepartum until parturition and lactation diet according to nutritional requirements after parturition. Blood was sampled at 10 days before and...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence of depression and correlate clinical and demographic characteristics in pregnant women assisted by the public health system in the city of Pelotas, RS, Brazil. METHOD We performed a cross-sectional study focused on pregnant women assisted by the public health service. The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) was used to screen for depression. RESU...

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) on rapid weight gain (RWG) among infants African American women enrolled in a promotion intervention. METHODS mothers 2nd or 3rd trimester who consented and attended four 30-minute sessions prospectively provided physical measurements at birth, four-, six-, twelve-months. RESULTS Mean age was 28.74±6.0 years, range 15-...

We evaluated the effects of nulliparous, primiparous, and multiparous conditions on estrus pregnancy rates in females that did not show but were treated with gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) at time timed artificial insemination (TAI). Nelore (n = 531) allocated according to following categories: nulliparous 144), primiparous 132), 255). The animals received a conventional TAI protocol, ex...

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...

Aim: To detect the induction of morphological and populational alterations on Ceriodaphnia cornuta concerning cyclomorphosis and population dynamic parameters as densities, fecundity rates, juveniles percentage, males presence and ephippia presence in the presence of predators; Methods: Two experiments were performed: Experiments with fishes fed on Ceriodaphnia cornuta – Experiment 1 – and “Fis...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to develop a breastfeeding empowerment program and to investigate the effects of the breastfeeding empowerment program on self-efficacy, adaptation and continuation of breastfeeding for primiparous women. METHODS The 5 session breastfeeding empowerment program was developed and a non-equivalent control group non-synchronized quasi-experiment design was us...

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...