A birth involving shoulder dystocia can rapidly deteriorate-from a fetus with a reassuring tracing in the minutes before birth, to a neonate needing aggressive resuscitation. Infants experiencing a traumatic birth involving shoulder dystocia may be severely compromised, even when the preceding labor was uncomplicated. This paper presents two cases in which infants had normal heart beats recorde...

BACKGROUND Identifying every pregnancy, regardless of home or health facility delivery, is crucial to accurately estimating maternal and neonatal mortality. Furthermore, obtaining birth weights and other anthropometric measurements in rural settings in resource limited countries is a difficult challenge. Unfortunately for the majority of infants born outside of a health care facility, pregnanci...

objective: childbirth is one of the most vulnerable moments and the most important and memorable events in the lives of women that despite of bringing happiness, it can be associated with psychological trauma and endanger the mother and neonate health. mothers' perception of the psychological birth trauma is a highly subjective process that depends on the cultural, social and biological conditi...

the prevalence of physical violence during pregnancy varies widely in different societies. to assess the incidence of self-reported physical, emotional and sexual violence in pregnancy and describe the association with maternal complication and birth outcomes, 3275 women who gave birth to live-born infants from october 2002 to november 2003 were assessed for self-reported violence in postpartum...

Nuchal cord, or cord around the neck of an infant at birth, is a common finding that has implications for labor, management at birth, and subsequent neonatal status. A nuchal cord occurs in 20% to 30% of births. All obstetric providers need to learn management techniques to handle the birth of an infant with a nuchal cord. Management of a nuchal cord can vary from clamping the cord immediately ...

W e live in a constantly changing world and due to stress, bad eating habits and Helicobacter Pylori (HP) infections, and we tend to auto medicate ourselves with different proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) in order to cure our “heart burns”. But what happens if we are young and are trying to procreate? What are the side effects and the incidence of severe birth defects after PPIs use during pregnan...

OBJECTIVE To examine birth outcomes in military women and men with potential exposure to documented open-air burn pits before and during pregnancy. METHODS Electronic data from the Department of Defense Birth and Infant Health Registry and the Defense Manpower Data Center were used to examine the prevalence of birth defects and preterm birth among infants of active-duty women and men who were...

to have an, idea about the relation between the length of birth interval and lactation, and birth control program this study have been done. the material for such analysis was nomad women's fertility history that was in their reproductive period (15-44). the material itself was gathered through a health survey. the main sample was composed of 2,165 qualified women, of whom 49 due to previous or...

BACKGROUND Psychiatric illness before delivery increases the risk of giving birth by caesarean section on maternal request (CSMR) but little is known about these women's mental health after childbirth. In this study we aimed to compare the prevalence of psychiatric disorders five years before and after delivery in primiparae giving birth by CS on maternal request to all other primiparae giving ...

Background Low birth weight is one of the most important health indicators in evaluating pregnancy care worldwide. We aimed to evaluate the effect of cell phones used in pregnancy on fetal growth and preterm labor. Materials and Methods The search process included screening the rel...