For the latest study, Olufemi Oladapo, a medical officer in the department of reproductive health and research at the World Health Organization, and colleagues gathered data on more than 5,500
laboring women admitted to 13 hospitals in Nigeria and Uganda.
Not exact matches
Unfortunately, most hospitals do not allow snacking or eating anything once a
woman is
admitted to hospital in
labor.
We have a triage area where up to 5
women can be assessed at a time, in curtained - off cubicles, but a
woman is
admitted to the
labor ward well before she is imminently giving birth.
In a 2005 study of nearly 700
women in
labor, moms whose babies were in this «sunny - side up» position when they were
admitted to the hospital were no more likely to complain of back
labor or more intense pain at that time than those whose babies were facing down or sideways.
The intrapartum fetal mortality rate for
women admitted to the birth center in
labor was 0.47 / 1000.
The investigators collected and analyzed blood samples from pregnant
women when they were
admitted to the hospital for
labor and delivery.