'Quot homines, tot sententiae.' Many speakers are discussing the relief of pain in midwifery; each has his own hobby-horse. Such a state of affairs proclaims the inescapable fact that, so far, we have failed to make childbirth safely painless. Yet definite progress has been made. There are many ways in which the problem may be tackled; there is a wide variety of drugs available, many of which a...

Maternal Class is one of the essential activities that respectful care for making maternal and safe childbirth. However, in reality, so far these classes have only been attended by mothers themselves, without participation husbands as birth attendants, even though since 2000, Indonesian government has launched Alert Husband program. Therefore, community service team collaboration with midwife m...

BACKGROUND: Evidence-based obstetric care is widely promoted in developing countries, but the success of implementation is not known. Using selected childbirth care procedures in four hospitals in Shanghai, we compared practice against evidence-based information, and explored user and provider views about each procedure. METHODS: Observational study. Using the Cochrane Library, we identified si...

How do you help a woman in labor? The Prepared Partner is an educational video game about labor and childbirth, intended to teach mothers, birth partners, and everybody else about different natural ways to help a woman in labor. In the game, the player sees up to 50 nonpharmacological pain relief, comfort, and relaxation methods that he or she can suggest to the mother — and can help her have a...

background & aim: episiotomy is a common medical procedure for widening the perineum. in fact, perineal pain is the most common complaint after episiotomy. therefore, it is important to determine factors associated with postoperative pain following episiotomy in order to provide comfort for women after delivery. this study aimed to investigate factors associated with postoperative pain followin...

Maroshi, Mumbai “W so much pain and suffering in this world?”1 “What a pain he or she is!” The word pain is used in various contexts. Most often it is linked to emotions of grief, sorrow and suffering. The word “pain” comes from the Latin word “poena” meaning a fine, a penalty. “Pain as the fifth vital sign” has been introduced by the American Pain Society in 1996. 2 According to the Internatio...

Hip and pelvic pain during pregnancy or after delivery is a common problem in young females, and in most cases this problem has a self-limiting course. The patient described in this case suffered from severe hip pain after childbirth. MR imaging study was performed and it showed arthritis of bilateral hip joints and osteomyelitis of femoral heads with an abscess in the surrounding muscle. Infec...

OBJECTIVE The present study examined back pain (BP) and/or urinary incontinence (UI) impact on the ability to perform daily tasks at 12 months after childbirth in healthy reproductive women who sought maternity care in community based family practice clinics. METHODS This study is a secondary analysis from the All Our Babies Study, a prospective, community-based pregnancy cohort in Calgary, A...

BACKGROUND Approximately 25 % of pregnant women suffer from a high level of Fear of Childbirth (FoC), as assessed by the Wijma Delivery Expectancy Questionnaire (W-DEQ-A, score ≥66). FoC negatively affects pregnant women's mental health and adaptation to the perinatal period. Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting (MBCP) seems to be potentially effective in decreasing pregnancy-related anxi...