Pregnancy is an important experience in a woman’s life. However, these can cause anxiety. Midwives as companion must be able to reduce it. In addition, the normality of blood pressure also influential on welfare pregnant and fetuses. One way applied decrease anxiety normalize through prenatal exercises. This study aims determine exercise effectiveness with Muslim prayer movement third trimester...

background: vitamin c levels are low in pregnancy. the purpose of this study was to determine serum vitamins c levels among pregnant women attending antenatal care at a general hospital in dawakin kudu, kano, and this can help further research to determine the place of vitamin c supplementation in pregnancy. methods: this was a prospective study of 400 pregnant women who presented for antenatal...

Background: Physical changes can be seen throughout the pregnancy along with mood swings and other psychological or emotional reaction. Advance stage of pregnancy mainly during third trimester may affect more the women psychologically. Purpose: Present study was conducted to expand the limited knowledge base regarding the potential psychological problems faced by women during the third trimeste...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the association between weekly weight gain, during the second and third trimesters, classified according to the 2009 Institute of Medicine (IOM/NRC) recommendations, and maternal and fetal outcomes. METHODS Gestational weight gain was evaluated in 2,244 pregnant women of the Brazilian Study of Gestational Diabetes (Estudo Brasileiro do Diabetes Gestacional--EBDG). Out...

AIMS to compare the benefits and harms of misoprostol to induce labour in the second and third trimester of pregnancy with cervagem. METHODS MEDLINE was searched using the terms abortion, induced; abortifacient agents; pregnancy, second trimester; pregnancy, third trimester; misoprostol; cervagem; and gemeprost to identify randomised controlled trials in which misoprostol was compared with ce...

to determine the gestational age of ultrasound devices, commonly used standard tables. the aim was to determine the gestational age of pregnant women admitted to hospitals in zahedan with hadlock and osaka table and gestational age derived from the tables to be adjusted to determine the gestational age of the actual use of tables for a more accurate determination of gestational age for the prop...

Pemphigoid gestationis (PG) is a rare vesiculobullous dermatosis of pregnancy. It is commonly seen in second or third trimester. The diagnosis is frequently made with direct immunofluorescence studies of perilesional skin. Prompt recognition and appropriate management may reduce morbidity of this disease. Herein we present a case of pemphigoid gestationis occurring in a 33-year-old primigravida...

introduction since abdominal pregnancies are mostly complicated, they are usually managed by laparotomy, but laparoscopy is an alternative method which some surgeons perform instead of laparotomy; especially in advanced pregnancy. case presentation we reported a 31 year old woman with last menstrual period of 18 weeks who had supra pubic pain and vaginal bleeding. after sonographic evaluations,...