During a discussion in the early part of the present session, at the Westminster Medical Society, when a paper was read by Professor Murphy, advocating the use of chloroform in midwifery, Dr. Webster, according to the reports published in the medical journals, mentioned three cases of insanity supervening after the employment of the above powerful agent during childbirth; to which he afterwards...

OBJECTIVES To calculate age adjusted mortality ratios for suicide by women in the first year after childbirth and during pregnancy, and to identify characteristics of postnatal suicide in childbearing women. DESIGN Retrospective study based on population data for England and Wales from 1973 to 1984. SUBJECTS Women aged 15-44 who committed suicide in the year after childbirth or during pregn...

OBJECTIVE Fear of childbirth (FOC) or what is historically referred to as tokophobia (a phobic state where a woman avoids childbirth despite desperately wanting a baby), is known to complicate the delivery process. In this study, the relationship of Anxiety Sensitivity (AS) to FOC was examined given that AS is a risk factor for other fears. Specifically, the contribution of three AS dimensions ...

OBJECTIVE The high rate of preterm births is an imposing public health issue in the United States. Past research has suggested that prenatal stress, anxiety, and elevated levels of maternal plasma corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) are associated with preterm delivery in humans and animals. Studies to date have not examined all three variables together; that is the objective of this paper. ...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the maternal and perinatal characteristics of small-for-gestational-age (SGA) newborns compared with appropriate-for-gestational-age (AGA) newborns in singleton pregnancies managed at our hospital between January 2006 and December 2015. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study (n=456) and control (n=4925) groups included pregnancies resulting in SGA and AGA newborns, respectively. ...

Applying the Intensive Care Unit (l.C.U.) Ap· proac'.1 t:) 0Jstetric_; requires a concentration of equipments, procedures and trained personnel that enables Fetal - Maternal indices to be evaluated in muc'.1 detail than the usual and conventional clinical methods.  This method is particularly appropriate for all obstetric patients identified as being at Risk.  These include women with :  -...

Obstetric anesthesiology is a significant component of modern anesthesiology, and a high risk sub-specialty because of its involvement of both mother and newborn. Having a late start, obstetric anesthesiology in mainland China has been developing synchronously with all other anesthesiology sub-specialties. Advances in science and technology and improvement of management skills in recent decades...

OBJECTIVES The objective of the study was to investigate the incidence rate of postpartum-onset major depression (PPMD) and to examine associated sociodemographic characteristics, obstetric factors, and personality disorders. METHOD The study data were obtained from 302 women who delivered at a child and maternity hospital. We interviewed the new mothers on the first day of their childbirth a...

BACKGROUND Women with an obstetric anal sphincter injury are concerned about the risk of recurrent obstetric anal sphincter injury in their second pregnancy. Existing studies have failed to clarify whether the recurrence of obstetric anal sphincter injury affects the risk of anal and fecal incontinence at long-term follow-up. OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to evaluate whether recurr...