Background and Purpose: Breastfeeding is important with regard to public health. Our aim was examine effects of spousal support in the early postpartum period on breastfeeding motivation patriarchal societies. 
 Methods: Study descriptive, cross-sectional, correlational design. conducted a University Hospital Inland Anatolia Region Turkey. It included primiparous multiparous women. Results...

Short stature, a marker for undernutrition early in life, has been associated with obesity in Brazilian women, but not in men. We tested the hypothesis that weight gain during the reproductive years could explain this gender difference. A national two-stage household survey of mothers with one or more children under five years of age was conducted in Brazil in 1996. The subjects were women aged...

In order to differentiate groups of hypocalcemic (G1) and normocalcemic animals (G2) infer the influence subclinical hypocalcemia on metabolic profiles, this study determined calcium concentrations during transitional period in 35 dairy goats healthy, pregnant, primiparous or multiparous, crossbreed pure-bred producing average 3 kg/day/goat. Therefore, blood samples were collected before (30, 2...

Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CNS) have become the most common bovine mastitis isolate in many countries and could therefore be described as emerging mastitis pathogens. The prevalence of CNS mastitis is higher in primiparous cows than in older cows. CNS are not as pathogenic as the other principal mastitis pathogens and infection mostly remains subclinical. However, CNS can cause persisten...

Background: The neonate's birth and subsequent hospitalization cause families to experience various needs. Identifying the family's needs can lead provision of qualitative services implementation family-centered development care (FCDC) by nurses. Objectives: This study aimed assess Iranian with neonates in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs). Methods: cross-sectional was conducted northern Ir...

BACKGROUND Intrapartum risk is based mainly on obstetric history, which is lacking in primiparous women. OBJECTIVES To ascertain whether the traditional known risk of primiparity is an independent variable for both maternal and neonatal outcome. METHODS All women admitted to labor during March-April 2002 were canvassed for eligibility to participate in the study based on an obstetric risk s...