OBJECTIVES To assess the proportion of women attaining pre-pregnant weight, and to ascertain the predictors of amount of retained weight at 6 weeks postpartum, in a tri-ethnic sample of low-income women. DESIGN Short-term longitudinal design from post-delivery to 6 weeks postpartum. PARTICIPANTS 419 African-American, Hispanic, and White women receiving perinatal care funded by Medicaid. M...

Underwater birthing has become a popular birth practice in some areas of the country. Although many of these deliveries occur in a home birth setting, the practice has also been implemented in hospitals and birthing centers. There is continued controversy about the risks and benefits of underwater birthing (as opposed to hydrotherapy during labor), and many risk managers are unaware of these po...

mothers experiences on how care givers break bad news about their perinatal mortality    sereshti m [1] *, izadi a [2]     received: 24 may , 2013 accepted: 18 aug , 2013    abstract  background & aims : breaking bad news to parents in perinatal periods is an especially difficult and important part of maternal education and counseling. this qualitative study aimed to explore maternal experience...

Recent publications indicate that the prevalence of perinatal mortality has increased in some dairy industries and an increased proportion of this loss is not associated with the traditional risk factors for perinatal mortality. The objectives of this study were to establish the prevalence of perinatal mortality (calf death within 24 h of calving) in Irish dairy herds and to determine the curre...

BACKGROUND The perinatal mortality of 70 deaths per 1,000 total births in Uganda is unacceptably high. Perinatal death audits are important for improvement of perinatal care and reduction of perinatal morality. We integrated perinatal death audits in routine care, and describe its effect on perinatal mortality rate at Nsambya Hospital. METHODS This was a retrospective descriptive study conduc...

Perinatal mortality rate (PMR), which indicates quality of care provided to women in pregnancy, at and after child birth and to the newborns in the first week of life, is high in Nepal. Published results show wide variation in PMR in the country. Higher rates are in the community and hospitals outside Kathmandu. Reduction of PMR is an important strategy in improving maternal and neonatal health...

BACKGROUND: Birth weight- and gestational age-specific perinatal mortality curves intersect when compared across categories of maternal smoking, plurality, race and other factors. No simple explanation exists for this paradoxical observation. METHODS: We used data on all live births, stillbirths and infant deaths in Canada (1991-1997) to compare perinatal mortality rates among singleton and twi...

BACKGROUND In a national perinatal health programme, we observed striking heterogeneity in the explanation of the most prominent risks across municipalities. Therefore we explored the separate contribution of several socio-demographic risks on perinatal health inequalities between municipalities and neighbourhoods. The study aims to identify perinatal health inequalities on the neighbourhood le...