this is a field study, investigate the nursing care provided to pregnant diabetic women in their last trimester, who were admitted in teaching hospitals under the supervision of ministry of health and medical education in tehran during 1993.   the tool was check list that was completed by the researcher upon interviewing the subjects.   six items covered information of personal data of the wome...

BACKGROUND Pregnancy-related dreams are often found in pregnant women but also the number of negatively toned dreams seems to be increased in this challenging phase of a woman's life. METHODS Nightmare frequency and subjectively experienced stress was elicited via questionnaires. The mothers-to-be were approached during their application visit about 4-8 weeks prior to delivery in three obstet...

Prescription data for the three months before the last menstrual period and for the first trimester of pregnancy were obtained for 764 mothers whose children had a defect of the central nervous system and for an equal number of mothers of control babies born from the same doctors' practices. There was a statistically significant difference overall between the numbers of mothers who were prescri...

Uterine torsion is the 45° rotation of the uterus around its longitudinal axis. The incidence of uterine torsion is higher in patients with uterine fibroma, adnexal tumors, intra-abdominal adhesions, twin pregnancy. Diagnosis is difficult to make due to the noncharacteristic symptomatology. Most frequently, the clinical picture includes abdominal pain, digestive symptoms, and urinary symptoms. ...

Preeclampsia, which presents after midgestation, is the most common pregnancy complication associated with serious maternal-fetal morbidity and mortality; and at present the only effective treatment is delivery of the placenta. The ability to predict in very early pregnancy those women at risk for preeclampsia might decrease maternal and fetal morbidity through closer surveillance by physicians...