Breastfeeding improves maternal and child health. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months, with continued breastfeeding for at least 1 year. However, in the US, only 18.8% of infants are exclusively breastfed until 6 months of age. For mothers who initiate breastfeeding, the early post-partum period sets the stage for sustained breastfeeding. Mothers w...

A patient with post-partum thyroiditis is described. She was a 22 year old with a negative family history of autoimmune thyroid disease who was noted to have a high titre of antithyroid microsomal antibody during pregnancy. She developed mild hyperthyroidism 8 weeks post-partum but at 12 weeks she had a mildly painful enlarged thyroid gland. At 20 weeks post-partum she had severe thyroidal pain...

OBJECTIVE To describe the effect of vaginal delivery with no clinically recognized sphincter tear on endosonographic anal sphincter morphology and sphincter pressure and to relate endosonographic results to anal sphincter pressure and anal incontinence score. STUDY DESIGN Thirty-two nullipara underwent anal endosonography and anal manometry in the third trimester of pregnancy, 2 weeks and 6 m...

Case I.?Mrs T., para iv, aged 37 years, was admitted to the Royal Maternity Hospital at 9.30 a.m. on 21st November 1927, owing to ante-partum haemorrhage. The only facts which could be elicited regarding her previous pregnancies were that her first puerperium was complicated by white leg and that her last pregnancy had terminated prematurely with the spontaneous delivery of a still-born child?t...

was slaughtered within 18 hr following parturition; the third group was slaughtered 21 days post partum and the fourth group received 100 mg ofprogesterone daily for 20 days starting from the day ofcalving and was slaughtered on Day 21. There was no detectable amount of progesterone in the corpora lutea of pregnancy on the day of calving. An average of 26 pg/g progesterone was present in the co...

A 30 year old woman who presented with multiple numb patches on the body was initially diagnosed as borderline lepromatous leprosy and started on multidrug therapy for leprosy. She had an episode of Type 1 reaction during the fifth month of pregnancy. After delivery, she stopped therapy fearing harm to her child and developed an episode of Type 2 reaction. The reaction was unusual in that bullo...

kinetic and pharmacodynamic changes during the first month following delivery. In the present issue of OnkOlOgie, Savvari et al. [8] report on a patient diagnosed with a Burkitt’s lymphoma with bilateral breast involvement. The diagnosis was made shortly after delivery, and the treatment was initiated during the next month. Despite disease-related liver dysfunction, the authors report a success...

INTRODUCTION Physiological hypercoagulability is a known condition in pregnancy designed to limit the risk of bleeding; it may exceptionally be complicated by thrombosis of the renal vein. To the best of our knowledge, this is the third case of renal venous infarction reported in the literature. CASE PRESENTATION We report the case of a 43-year-old Caucasian woman, a mother of three sons who ...