Sentences with phrase «high infant birth»

High infant birth weight was also an independent risk factor for delayed OL.

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Doctor told Mr Justice MacDonald at the family division of the High Court that the infant suffered catastrophic brain damage when he was deprived of oxygen at birth.

In the fall of» 95, a few weeks after Mariucci's wife, Gayle, gave birth to their daughter, Brielle, Favre stopped by for a visit, nuzzled the infant, then, holding her high in the air, said, «Horse walks into a bar.

It is estimated that infant mortality could have been as high as 1 in 5 at the beginning of the 19th century when many infants were fed a flour and water «formula» instead of being breastfed — not necessarily because of inherently dangerous birth practices.

If the baby is premature, or stressed from a difficult birth, or the infant of a diabetic mother, or more than the usual number of red blood cells are breaking down (as can happen in blood incompatibility), the level of bilirubin in the blood may rise higher than usual levels.

Too many high - risk mothers still give birth to endangered newborns who cost the nation billions of dollars for neonatal intensive care and add to infant mortality statistics.

Mothers who give birth at home are as concerned with the under - reported and grossly high maternal mortality rate in hospitals as the infant mortality rate.

For a nation that has so many hospital births tell me why we fall so high in infant mortality rate?

Same goes for the high - tech resuscitation equipment that they bring to every birth (my midwives were trained in one of our cities best NICUs on infant resuscitation).

It's infant mortality that the US suffers in, not perinatal / neonatal (eg; very shortly after birth)-- and surprise surprise, it's pretty much for the same reason we have a high maternal mortality — in the US, poor people can't / don't have access to skilled health care until it's an emergency, because then they can't refuse you.

I've always been a little grossed out by the idea of shopping your infant's picture to the highest bidding celebrity tabloid shortly after the child's birth.

Dr. Fisher believes that dispassionate, rigorous study of birth across all settings is more important than ever given disparities in women's access to trained and licensed care providers, current and future physician workforce issues, rising costs of health care, and unacceptably high rates of adverse outcomes for mothers and infants in the U.S. compared to other industrialized countries.

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The effectiveness of these intervention strategies was demonstrated by a study in the Netherlands in which 100 6 - month - old infants who displayed high levels of irritability shortly after birth were deemed to be at risk of developing insecure attachment.

His book is a tinderbox that will infuriate both the pro-C-section lobbyists (babies born this way are five times more likely to suffer allergies he points out) and the natural birthers (infant death globally between birth and 28 days appears twice as high after planned homebirth than hospital birth).

c - sec births however often have a higher rate of mortality or infection for either the mother or the infant.

Some of those factors included a decline in birth rates corresponding with higher infant mortality rates, the discovery of vaccines, and a rise in hospital births.

Babies born to mother who did not receive prenatal care are three times more likely to have a low birth weight and five times higher risk of infant mortality.

According to US statistics, out - of - hospital birth pose — overall — a slightly higher risk of infant death.

When your child is between 4 and 6 months old, able to hold his head up high and has doubled his birth weight, you can start to introduce iron - fortified infant cereal fed to him on a spoon.

Looking at preterm birth, which is a risk factor for newborn infant loss, a 2003 study examined 1,962 women and found that those who reported high counts of anxiety were more likely to experience preterm labor and subsequent birth.

A prospective study8 of a Tasmanian high - risk birth cohort of 6213 infants reported no increase in cyanosis, pallor, or breathing symptoms at age 5 weeks for infants sleeping in the supine position, and, in fact, the risk for these symptoms was increased among infants sleeping in the prone position.

Mother's milk after a premature birth is much higher in certain nutrients, and studies show superior growth and head circumference in low - weight infants fed milk from preterm baby mothers.

The only infant variable that differed significantly between the two groups was mean birth weight, which was higher by 73 g in the human milk - fed group (Table 1).

«In our study, infants with DP who were the product of a multiple - birth pregnancy were disproportionately higher than in the general population and greater than in previous studies,» Oh said.

Rather than delivering the same milk that she would have made for a term birth, mothers to premature babies produce milk that is specifically tailored to the needs of an early - birth infant, such as higher fat and mineral contents, La Leche League International states.

The incidence of multiple births (birth of two or more infants) in high - income countries has risen since the 1970s (Blondel 2002; Collins 2007).

Infants born through birth interventions using an instrument after induction had «the highest risk of jaundice and feeding problems.»

Infants born through birth interventions had the highest risk of jaundice and feeding problems.

More recently, rates of higher order births (three or more infants) have declined as changes in assisted reproductive techniques (ART) to reduce multiple pregnancies have been implemented (Smith 2014; Umstad 2013).

• Assumptions about different cultural groups and how they impact breastfeeding support • Shoshone and Arapaho tribal breastfeeding traditions shared through oral folklore • Barriers to decreasing health disparities in infant mortality for African Americans • Effects of inflammation and trauma on health disparities that result in higher rates of infant mortality among minority populations • Barriers to breastfeeding experienced by Black mothers and how lactation consultants can support them more effectively • Social support and breastfeeding self - efficacy among Black mothers • Decreasing pregnancy, birth, and lactation health disparities in the urban core • Positive changes in breastfeeding rates within the African American community • Grassroots breastfeeding organizations serving African American mothers

Recently, as I searched for some long term evidence of the benefits of parent - infant co-sleeping, I came across a study of college age subjects which found that males who had co-slept with their parents between birth and five years not only had significantly higher self esteem, they experienced less guilt and anxiety and reported greater frequency of sex.

And this inflammatory use of a «relative percentage risk» rather than relative risk or absolute risk... for example, even if assuming the writer's awkward data is valid, you can to look at infant living rates and see 99.6 % vs 98.4 %, which means there's only a 1.2 % higher risk of bad outcome from at - home birth than hospital.

All sorts of hilarious errors — using one type of data (ICD10 code data from «white healthy women» and essentially comparing the best possible data from one set of hospital data related to low - risk births to the worst possible single set of data related to high - risk at - home births)-- if you use the writer's same data source for hospital births but include all comers in 2007 - 2010 (not just low - risk healthy white women), the infant death rate is actually 6.14 per 1000, which is «300 % higher death rate than at - home births!»

Preterm and low birth weight infants are also at higher risk.

Because race is a factor in breastfeeding duration among term infants (39 % of white US infants are breastfeeding at 6 months compared with 24 % of African American infants3) and because of the high incidence of premature births among African American women, we performed a subgroup analysis on African American subjects.

While having a big baby might not seem like a bad thing, large - for - gestational age infants have a higher incidence of health problems after birth and can also complicate labor and delivery.

Initiation of breastfeeding within the first hour of birth is the primary and most vital step towards reducing infant and under - five mortality, by reducing the overwhelmingly high neonatal mortality rate.»

The jury is out as to why this is, but probable causes include insufficient (or nonexistent) maternity leave, poverty and its accompanying stress and pour nourishment, lack of education about and exposure to breastfeeding, infant care practices that keep mother and baby separate, scheduled feeding, high rates of birth interventions, the aggressive marketing of infant formula, exposure to pesticides and endocrine disruptors, and cultural beliefs that tell mothers they can't do it.

Living at high altitude is associated with increased risk of sudden infant death syndrome, a new report has found.Researchers studied Colorado birth certificate and death registries from 2007...

For example, low birth - weight infants who are breast - fed or given breast milk appear to have slightly higher IQs at ages 7 and 8 compared with similar children who do not receive breast milk, according to a new study.

Cobedding of twins and other infants of multiple gestation is a frequent practice, both in the hospital setting and at home.174 However, the benefits of cobedding twins and higher - order multiples have not been established.175, — , 177 Twins and higher - order multiples are often born prematurely and with low birth weight, so they are at increased risk of SIDS.101, 102 Furthermore, there is increased potential for overheating and rebreathing while cobedding, and size discordance might increase the risk of accidental suffocation.176 Most cobedded twins are placed on their sides rather than supine.174 Finally, cobedding of twins and higher - order multiples in the hospital setting might encourage parents to continue this practice at home.176 Because the evidence for the benefits of cobedding twins and higher - order multiples is not compelling and because of the increased risk of SIDS and suffocation, the AAP believes that it is prudent to provide separate sleep areas for these infants to decrease the risk of SIDS and accidental suffocation.

A recent meta - analysis of 11 studies that investigated the association of bed - sharing and SIDS revealed a summary OR of 2.88 (95 % confidence interval [CI]: 1.99 — 4.18) with bed - sharing.158 Furthermore, bed - sharing in an adult bed not designed for infant safety exposes the infant to additional risks for accidental injury and death, such as suffocation, asphyxia, entrapment, falls, and strangulation.159, 160 Infants, particularly those in the first 3 months of life and those born prematurely and / or with low birth weight, are at highest risk, 161 possibly because immature motor skills and muscle strength make it difficult to escape potential threats.158 In recent years, the concern among public health officials about bed - sharing has increased, because there have been increased reports of SUIDs occurring in high - risk sleep environments, particularly bed - sharing and / or sleeping on a couch or armchair.162, — , 165

A growing body of evidence indicates that receiving a mother's own milk, especially in high doses very soon after birth reduces the risk of acquiring very costly conditions in very low birthweight infants including sepsis, chronic lung disease and, especially, necrotizing enterocolitis, a devastating disease that affects mostly the intestine of premature infants.

The Neonatal Follow - Up Program provides assessments and clinical management of high - risk infants from birth to nine years of age, offering comprehensive follow - up care for neonates discharged from our neonatal programs and rehabilitation services for infants with physical disabilities.

Both the KUDOS (Kansas DHA Outcome Study), directed by Carlson and Colombo, and the DOMinO (DHA to Optimize Mother Infant Outcome) study directed by Maria Makrides, professor of human nutrition and Healthy Mothers, Babies and Children theme leader for the South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute, and Robert Gibson, professor of functional food science at the University of Adelaide, saw a small overall increase in gestation length, but this increase was found to be related to a decrease in deliveries at higher risk for early preterm birth.

A big skull was not conducive to easy births, and thus a within - group pressure toward smaller heads was probably always present, as it still is in present - day humans, who have an unusually high infant mortality rate due to big - headed babies.

Quinn added that further studies needed to be done to discover whether the results are generalizable to infants not covered in this study, such as preterm babies with higher birth weights than 1251 grams.

Women with the highest levels were also 41 percent less likely to give birth to a live infant than women with the lowest blood levels.

But the team doesn't know what aspect of fracking caused the low birth weights, which put babies at higher risk for infant mortality, asthma, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, lower test scores, and lower lifetime earnings.