Enabling factors were addressed through demographic characteristics, ethnicity, source of income, education level, stress, and
obstetric factors (gravidity and parity).
Potential confounding variables including major risk factors for infection, maternal demographic characteristics,
obstetric factors, and infant risk factors were also abstracted from the medical record.
Results Mothers delivering in accredited maternity units were more likely to start breastfeeding than those delivering in units with neither award [adjusted rate ratio: 1.10, 95 % confidence interval (CI) 1.05 — 1.15], but were not more likely to breastfeed at 1 month (0.96, 95 % CI 0.84 — 1.09), after adjustment for social, demographic, and
obstetric factors.
Labour epidural anasthesia,
obstetric factors and breastfeeding cessation, Dozier et al. (June 2012), Maternal and Child Health Journal
Not exact matches
Having such an obvious
obstetric risk
factor means giving birth in a nasty hospital with machines and interventions and eebil nurses and OBs who will cut you open so they can get home to dinner.
In the early days mothers rely heavily on the advice and support of hospital midwives and
obstetric staff, but after moving into the community other
factors come into play that will determine breastfeeding success.
«In the subgroup of women with spontaneous onset of labour and vaginal deliveries, after controlling for other
obstetric and demographic
factors, epidural analgesia but not narcotic analgesia was significantly associated with reduced breastfeeding duration (adjusted hazard ratio 1.44, 95 % confidence interval 1.04 - 1.99).»
Women were classified as «healthy women with low risk pregnancies» if, before the onset of labour, they were not known to have any of the medical or
obstetric risk
factors listed in the NICE intrapartum care guideline.
What is most worrying is that this association was adjusted for maternal age, demographic
factors, and underlying
obstetric complications and therefore reflects the additional risk of the procedure itself.
There have been numerous studies of breastfeeding in the UK, most of which have adopted a quantitative approach, and they have largely focused on
obstetric or socio - demographic
factors in the decision to breastfeed.
«If I was forced to identify one
factor above all others as the determinant of high maternal mortality in the USA,» Loudon wrote in Death in Childbirth, «I would unhesitatingly choose the standard of
obstetric training in the medical schools.»
The study aimed to investigate the contribution of
obstetric risk
factors, including mode of delivery and perineal trauma to postpartum dyspareunia.
«This is the first study with detailed, frequent and long - term follow - up to assess associations of dyspareunia with
obstetric risk
factors.
However, because serious complications related to
obstetric anesthesia are so rare, there were too few complications in each category to identify risk
factors associated with each complication.
of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to understand how personal
factors including women's social norms, perceived beliefs, social support and personal barriers such as untreated mental health, substance abuse, intimate partner violence, and health system
factors, including whether women receive HIV and
obstetric care together or separately, contribute to HIV outcomes.
Stunting is a known risk
factor for
obstetric complications such as obstructed labor and the need for skilled intervention during delivery, leading to injury or death for mothers and their newborns.
Nearly one half are potentially avoidable with recognition and anticipation of
obstetric risk
factors.