OBJECTIVE To compare psychiatric in- and outpatient care during the 5 years before first delivery in primiparae delivered by caesarean section on maternal request with all other primiparae women who had given birth during the same time period. DESIGN Prospective, population-based register study. SETTING Sweden. SAMPLE Women giving birth for the first time between 2002 and 2004 (n = 64 834...

BACKGROUND The delays in receiving adequate emergency maternal care described by Thaddeus and Maine twenty years ago are still occurring, as exemplified in this study of cases of maternal deaths in a subdistrict in rural eastern Indonesia. METHODS An ethnographic design was conducted, recruiting eleven families who reported on cases of maternal deaths in one sub-district of Indonesia, as well...

background: the discovery of circulating fetal dna in maternal blood led to the discovery of new strategies to perform noninvasive testing for prenatal diagnosis. objective: the purpose of the study was to detect fetal aneuploidy at chromosomes 13, 18, 21, x, and y by analysis of fetal cell-free dna from maternal blood, without endangering pregnancy. materials and methods: this retrospective st...

: 112 Transcutaneous carbon dioxide measurements and maternal pain scores in laboring parturients Presenting Author: Paloma Toledo M.D. Presenting Author's Institution: Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine Chicago, IL Co-Authors: Renee C. Gora B.S.N. Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine Chicago, IL Mary Jane Ebarvia B.S.N. Northwestern University, Feinberg School...

OBJECTIVE To examine trends in cesarean delivery for the overall population and for women with "no indicated risk" for cesarean section, and to summarize the available literature on "maternal request" cesarean deliveries. FINDINGS Nearly 3 in 10 births were delivered by cesarean section in 2004 (29.1%), the highest rate ever reported in the United States. The overall rate has increased by ove...

INTRODUCTION It is common for pediatricians to provide parents with information on how to look after their newborn baby at the time of discharge from the hospital. The objectives of this study are to determine the level of satisfaction regarding such information, to be aware of what additional information parents would have liked to receive, and to establish which factors may impact any additio...