Sentences with phrase «elective delivery»

Topics: Breastfeeding Early Elective Delivery Home Visiting Life Course Model Parenting Education Prenatal Care and Education Reproductive Life Planning / Family Planning Social Determinants of Health Socio - emotional Development for Children

Looking behind the Curtain A recent study of elective induction at term purports to show that it would reduce perinatal mortality without affecting spontaneous birth rates, although it would increase admission to a special neonatal care unit if done before 41 weeks, which contradicts the current belief that elective delivery at 39 weeks poses no excess risk.

«A truly elective delivery should wait until at least 39 weeks,» says study researcher Uma M. Reddy, MD, MPH of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Development in Bethesda, Md..

«Elective deliveries prior to 39 weeks definitely have some increased morbidity,» says Abdulla Al - Khan, MD, the director and chief of maternal and fetal medicine and surgery at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey Other factors such as type of delivery and reason for early term delivery also affect these risks, he says.

Topics: Breastfeeding Early Elective Delivery Prenatal Care and Education Reproductive Life Planning / Family Planning

Birth Spacing Postpartum Visit Reducing Early Elective Deliveries Reproductive Life Plan Well Woman Visits

Dramatic Decline in Dangerous Early Elective Deliveries; The Leapfrog Group Cautions Against Babies Being Born Too Soon, Hits National Target View website

The organization has developed a series of maternal safety toolkits aimed at responding to the leading causes of maternal morbidity and mortality including reducing complications from obstetric hemorrhage, severe hypertension and early elective delivery.

This initiative aims to reduce preterm births and improve outcomes for newborns and pregnant women through an awareness campaign to reduce the rate of early elective deliveries and providing funding to test enhanced prenatal care approaches to reduce the frequency of premature births among pregnant Medicaid or CHIP beneficiaries at high risk.