background & aim: postpartum period is accompanied by significant changes in women’s quality of life. these alterations can affect the health of mothers and children. considering the importance of postnatal quality of life and its different contributing factors, this study aimed to compare women’s quality of life after vaginal delivery and cesarean section. methods:this retrospective cohort stu...

introduction: newborns should be evaluated immediately after birth and the traditional way of assessing is to use the apgar score. the aim of this study was to estimate the apgar score and evaluate the first 24 hour- clinical outcome of babies born at yazd hospitals. methods: in a descriptive cross-sectional study, apgar score was assessed for 462 newborns at the 4 centers of afshar, madar, kar...

unfortunately, the prevalence of cesarean section has increased in recent years. whereas awareness of the prevalence and causes is inevitable for planning and effective interventions, so aim of this study has designed and conducted for reviewing of systematic prevalence and caesarean causes in iran. in this meta-analysis, the required information have been collected using several keywords which...

background : there has always been an asking question with physicians and health staff whether delivery mode can effect on child intelligence. this study was conducted to compare the intelligence quotient (iq) of school aged children delivered by cesarean section and vaginal delivery in mashhad, iran. methods : this study conducted in two stages; a cross-sectional section in which 5000 randomly...

premature rupture of membrane (prom) is one of the complications of pregnancy which is blamed for increasing the rate of cesarean. therefore, we studied pregnant women who were admitted in shariati hospital during march 1996 and march 2000, to determine the rate of cesarean delivery in cases with prom after 36th week of pregnancy (term prom). in a retrospective study, we included pregnant women...

BACKGROUND Cesarean delivery has negative effects on breastfeeding. The objective of this study was to evaluate breastfeeding rates, defined in accordance with World Health Organization guidelines, from delivery to 6 months postpartum in infants born by elective and emergency cesarean section and in infants born vaginally. METHODS Delivery modalities were assessed in relation to breastfeeding...

abstract background: as any delay in the onset of milk production and ejection in the first few days after delivery can cause breast-feeding failure, this study has been done to determine factors that may affect the onset time of lactation in vaginal and cesarean section deliveries with and without labor pain (elective). methods: 300 partujient mothers selected from two private and university h...

BACKGROUND Obstetricians in developing countries appear generally reluctant to conduct vaginal delivery in women with a previous Cesarean because of lack of adequate facilities for optimal fetomaternal monitoring. OBJECTIVE To describe delivery outcomes among women with one previous Cesarean section at a tertiary hospital in Southeast Nigeria. METHODS This was a prospective observational st...

introduction: a growing number of children around the world are being born by surgical delivery, or cesarean section. concerns about the steep increase in cesarean deliveries have been raised because of the possibility that surgical delivery is associated with greater maternal and infant mortality and morbidity than vaginal delivery. the purpose of the present study was to determine prevalence ...