background: the outcomes of such pregnancies have been rarely evaluated in our country. a descriptive study was planned to assess the health and condition of neonates conceived with assisted techniques in a one year period. materials and methods: at royan institute, tehran, 443 women who became pregnant by one of the assisted techniques in vitro fertilization (ivf), intrauterine insemination (i...

This paper results from a study of the phenomenon born in Batak Toba ethnic group. Birth society is joy together. Not only family but even surrounding community also rejoice. Toba’s cultural values are source everyday behavior kinship system. Kinship related to birth, which determines position community. aimed assess process giving birth and some rites performed rarely tribe today. The type res...

Objectives: To identify the effects of Maternal and Neonatal Death Review (MNDR) in terms of improving maternal and neonatal health at the community level in Bangladesh. Methods: Both quantitative and qualitative methods were undertaken for collecting data in Kashipur Union, Bangladesh. Death notifications from households, subsequent data collections from a focus-group discussion (FGD), a group...

Past studies found three types of infant coping behaviour during Face-to-Face Still-Face paradigm (FFSF): a Positive Other-Directed Coping; a Negative Other-Directed Coping and a Self-Directed Coping. In the present study, we investigated whether those types of coping styles are predicted by: infants’ physiological responses; maternal representations of their infant’s temperament; maternal inte...

BACKGROUND Many centers in Israel still use pre-1970 reference data for neonatal weight, length and head circumference. A recently published population-based reference overestimated the weight of premature infants. OBJECTIVE To develop a national reference for birth weight, birth length and head circumference by gestational age for singleton infants in Israel. METHODS Data were collected on...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between size at birth (birthweight and birth length) and height in early adolescence in a prospective birth cohort study in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Interviews were carried out in 1993, including measurements of birthweight and length, and in 2004-2005, including measurements of weight and height. This analysis includes 4,452 indi...

WHO defined low birth weight (regardless of the gestational age ) as weighing less than 2500g.. Low birth weight neonates are further subdivided into very low birth weight infants, with birth weights less than 1500g and extremely low birth weight infants, with birth weights less than 1000g. Early childhood caries due to malnutrition is still a common dental health problem in developing countrie...

The end of the “one-child” policy in China has brought the discussion of how much birth control policies have actually affected women’s childbearing behavior back into the spotlight. Some people suggest that birth control policies explain most of the fertility decline in China, but others believe that socioeconomic development has also played a decisive role. To shed light on these questions, i...