To determine if dietary intervention in the form of a single 45-minute nutrition consultation is effective reducing gestational weight gain and its associated complications. A retrospective chart review was performed including all obese patients who received prenatal care delivered at Stony Brook University Hospital between January 2016 December 2017. The primary outcome gain. Secondary outcome...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to suggest the importance natural childbirth by investigating results midwife-led perinatal periods and whether they were positive experiences for both individual women their families.Methods: This retrospective aimed confirm outcomes midwife-attended vaginal births. Among 1,127 who gave birth in Gyeonggi-do, Seoul between January 1, 2019 December 31, 2021...

Durante o trabalho de parto traumatismo do períneo é frequente. A massagem perineal considerada uma técnica que promove a integridade períneo. Como objetivo pretende-se identificar os efeitos da durante parto. Foi realizada revisão integrativa literatura, com pesquisa 18 janeiro 2021. Foram considerados artigos estudos primários e revisões sistemáticas publicados em Português, Inglês Espanhol, ...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to identify the healing process and outcome of nonhymenal injuries in prepubertal and pubertal girls. METHODS This multicenter, retrospective project used photographs to document the healing process and outcome of nonhymenal genital injuries in 239 prepubertal and pubertal girls whose ages ranged from 4 months to 18 years. RESULTS The genital injuri...

Episiotomy, the incision of the perineum during the last part of the second stage of labour or delivery is still considered a controversial procedure. Long-term complications after episiotomy repair are common. A large proportion of women suffer short-term perineal pain and up to 20% have longer-term problems (e.g. dyspareunia).1 Other complications involve the removal of suture material, exten...

Most of the nearly 4 million births in the United States annually are normal spontaneous vaginal deliveries. In the first stage of labor, normal birth outcomes can be improved by encouraging the patient to walk and stay in upright positions, waiting until at least 6 cm dilation to diagnose active stage arrest, providing continuous labor support, using intermittent auscultation in low-risk deliv...

Objectives To determine the lifetime risk of undergoing pelvic floor surgery in a cohort of UK parous women and the re-operation rates for pelvic floor surgery, time intervals for repeat surgery and independent risk factors for undergoing primary and repeat pelvic floor surgery. Study design A register linkage study. Main outcome measures The primary outcome was lifetime risk of parous women ...

• Vol 10 • July 2008 Perineal Massage to Prevent Perineal Trauma Perineal trauma is defined as any damage to the genitalia occurring during childbirth, either spontaneously or because of a surgical incision or episiotomy [1,2]. A large British study showed that 85% of women delivering vaginally will sustain some form of perineal trauma [3]. Over two-thirds of such women will require suturing. G...