BACKGROUND Short birth intervals and unintended pregnancies pose serious health risks to mothers and their infants by causing unnecessary high risk of pregnancy related complications and self induced abortions. The objective of the study was to assess the child spacing and fertility planning behavior of women in Mana district, Jimma zone. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was conducted from Ju...

Infant size at birth is a useful indicator to evaluate fetal growth in relation to gestational age. There is no standard model to create anthropometric reference curves in neonates, but the method chosen could determine the reference values estimated. We describe the methods used to construct population-based reference curves of birth weight for gestational age in Catalonia, Spain. These method...

We hypothesized that creatine supplementation would reduce birth intervals, stillbirth rate, and preweaning survival in pigs because of its reported improvement of athletic performance in humans. In Exp. 1, gilts (n = 42) and first parity sows (n = 75) were mated at estrus. Beginning on d 110 of gestation, dams received either no treatment or 20 g creatine daily until farrowing. At farrowing in...

BACKGROUND Short birth intervals have been associated with adverse health outcomes, including infant, child and maternal mortality. OBJECTIVE We aimed to investigate the duration and determinants of inter birth intervals among women of reproductive age in Yazd, Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS A cluster sampling technique was used to select 400 ever-married women aged 15-49 years in Yazd, Islami...

It is not fully known whether maternal prehypertension is associated with increased risk of adverse fetal outcomes, and it is debated whether increases in blood pressure during pregnancy influence adverse fetal outcomes. We performed a population-based cohort study in nonhypertensive women with term (≥37 weeks) singleton births (n=157 446). Using normotensive (diastolic blood pressure [DBP] <80...

OBJECTIVE To determine the relationship of interpregnancy interval with maternal and offspring outcomes. DESIGN Retrospective study with data from the Perinatal Information System database of the Latin American Centre for Perinatology and Human Development, Uruguay. SETTING Latin America, 1990-2009. POPULATION A cohort of 894 476 women delivering singleton infants. METHODS During 1990-2...

BACKGROUND A large literature has indicated a robust association between birth spacing and child survival, but evidence on the association of birth timing with physical growth in low and middle income countries (LMICs) remains limited. METHODS AND RESULTS Data from 153 cross-sectional Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) across 61 LMICs conducted between 1990 and 2011 were combined to assess ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association between interpregnancy interval and maternal-neonate health when matching women to their successive pregnancies to control for differences in maternal risk factors and compare these results with traditional unmatched designs. METHODS We conducted a retrospective cohort study of 38,178 women with three or more deliveries (two or greater interpregnancy inter...

background: this study aimed to assess the incidence and survival rates of neonates weighing less than 2500g for duration of the first 28 days in an iranian community. methods: in this prospective longitudinal study, all neonates with birth weight less than 2500g were selected from the list of all neonates born in the only public-sector referral hospital, for a six months period. the weight of ...