BACKGROUND This observational study aimed to describe the rates and indicators for practice of episiotomy during normal labour and to compare them between women who have had one pregnancy (PG) and women who have already delivered two or more children (G2 and above). METHODS The study was conducted at Mother and Child Hospital, Buraidah from October- December 2013 as a descriptive cross sectio...

Submitted: 04‐03‐2014 Revised: 04‐04‐2014 Published: 30‐05‐2014 Address for Correspondence: Indranil Dutta, Assistant Professor, IQ City Medical College, Durgapur, West Bengal – 713206, India. E-mail: [email protected]; Tel: 09635105104. © Copyright AJMS Aim: This study is aimed to analyze the socio-demographic factors of teenage pregnancy compared to adult pregnancies. Method: A Hospit...

OBJECTIVE The objective of the study is to estimate the level of glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) for a safe fetal outcome and to estimate the relation between this level and various adverse fetal outcomes. Materials and. METHODOLOGY Primigravidas who are diagnosed as not having gestational diabetes mellitus as per the glucose challenge test done at 24 weeks with a cutoff value up to 140 mg/dl...

BACKGROUND This observational study aimed to describe the rates and indicators for continuous electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) during normal labour and to compare them between women who have had one pregnancy (PG) and women who have already delivered two or more children (G2 and above). METHODS The study was conducted at Mother and Child Hospital, Buraidah from July-Sept, 2013 as a descripti...

The study was carried out on 50 primigravidas of 18-36 years age at 32-39 weeks gestation attending our antenatal clinic. They included a study group of 25 pregnant women diagnosed as having GDM by oral glucose tolerance test with 100g of glucose 3 and a control group of 25 women having healthy normotensive pregnancy. None of them had a family history of diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and obe...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES This study was undertaken in order to study the combined effect of vitamin C and E supplements during pregnancy on the incidence of preeclampsia and to study its effect on neonatal outcome. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study was conducted in Goa Medical College, from March 2010 to June 2011. Cases and controls were taken randomly from antenatal patients attending our hospita...

PURPOSE There are no interventional study results directed at maternal identity development education, including all stages of maternity role attainment, for expectant mothers with healthy babies. This research was conducted to assess the effect of maternal identity development education on the maternity role attainment and my baby perception of primigravidas. METHODS The research was carried...