form complicating pregnancy and labour. The connexion between the generative organs and the nervous system is so intimate that functional disturbances of the latter in pregnancy are frequent. It is important, however, to remember that such disturbances as we commonly associate with hysteria may be the early symptoms of a grave nervous lesion, as the following case shows. The patient was a young...

BACKGROUND A husband's support during childbirth is vital to a parturient woman's emotional well-being. Evidence suggests that this type of support enables a woman to feel more in control during labour by reducing maternal anxiety during childbirth. However, in Nepal, where childbearing is considered an essential element of a marital relationship, the husband's role in this process has not been...

Mothers face trade-offs between infant care and subsistence/economic activities. In traditional populations, allomothers such as fathers and grandmothers support mothers with young infants, allowing them to reduce labour activities and focus on breastfeeding. Similarly, the positive impact of social support on breastfeeding has been highlighted in developed populations. However, these studies h...

this study was conducted in delta state nigeria to establish a nexus between rural-urban migration and child labour. random sampling was applied to select rural settlements and this study covers 450 sample farming households. the results show that rural-urban migration influence child labour (p

this study examined the effects of agricultural child labour on children’s perception of farming occupation in delta state, nigeria. a total of 336 respondents comprising of 112 farming household heads and 224 children in the selected households were used for the study.farming activities of the children were highest during weekends. highest level of participation was recorded in herbicide and p...

This study examined the effects of a yoga program during pregnancy, on maternal comfort, labor pain, and birth outcomes. A randomized trial was conducted using 74-primigravid Thai women who were equally divided into two groups (experimental and control). The yoga program involved six, 1-h sessions at prescribed weeks of gestation. A variety of instruments were used to assess maternal comfort, l...

Decision augmentation theory (DAT) holds that humans integrate information obtained by anomalous cognition into the usual decision process. The result is that, to a statistical degree, such decisions are biased toward volitional outcomes. We introduce our model and show that the domain over which it is applicable is within a few standard deviations from chance. We contrast the theory's experime...

This research examines the relationship between wellbeing, career aspirations and equal opportunities prospects among FE teachers support staff expectations. An online questionnaire asked further education (FE) to comment on items of: - Emotional Labour, Teachers’ Labour Strategy Burnout. Further Education also noted number of stressors they generally encountered. Although female experienced mo...

The anxiety mothers experience during pregnancy is well known and may have negative consequences for the emotional, psychological, social development of newborns. Anxiety must therefore be reduced using different strategies. To determine published non-pharmacological interventions to reduce pregnancy, childbirth postpartum. A systematic peer-review experimental quasi-experimental studies was co...