Sentences with phrase «mother at increased risk»

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The cancer experts at AICR noted that because carrying excess body fat is linked to increased risk for seven different cancers, breastfeeding affords protection to both mother and child.

Mothers who do not breastfeed are at increased risk for postpartum bleeding and anemia, and have higher rates of breast cancer later in life, the health department statement said.

For example, having a young mother or a mother with little or delayed prenatal care puts a child at increased risk.

I have written in the past about the diminishing returns of an ever increasing C - section rate and predicted that there would be a point at which the risks to mothers would outweigh the benefits to infants.

In addition to presiding over the preventable deaths of low risk mothers, they'd like to try their hands at increasing the rate of preventable deaths of high risk mothers.

Starting at 42 weeks, however, experts agree that there are increased health risks to the baby and to the mother, which is why many hospitals and midwives advise women to have their labor induced at that point.

Someone, probably, will say seriously, that it's ONLY the homebirth midwives who are respecting a woman's right to a vaginal breech, twin, or post dates birth at home, and HER right to the lower rate of intervention at home trumps the mythical rights of the baby, and that since it's the sisters in chains that are taking back a woman's right to physiologic birth where SHE wants it that IF there is an increased risk to the baby it's the mother's right to take that risk.

Vegetarian and vegan mothers may be at increased risk for deficiencies of vitamin B - 12 because it is naturally found only in animal products.

Babies are also at increased risk of separation from their mothers due to admission to the NICU.

Although early research appeared to show that breastfeeding increases the risk of mother - to - child transmission of HIV, recent studies which clearly define «breastfeeding» show no additional risk of MTCT of HIV through exclusive breastfeeding over not breastfeeding at all.

These include the infant with galactosemia, 53,54 the infant whose mother uses illegal drugs, 55 the infant whose mother has untreated active tuberculosis, and the infant in the United States whose mother has been infected with the human immunodeficiency virus.56, 57 In countries with populations at increased risk for other infectious diseases and nutritional deficiencies resulting in infant death, the mortality risks associated with not breastfeeding may outweigh the possible risks of acquiring human immunodeficiency virus infection.58 Although most prescribed and over-the-counter medications are safe for the breastfed infant, there are a few medications that mothers may need to take that may make it necessary to interrupt breastfeeding temporarily.

Pregnant and postpartum women are at increased risk for depression, and the health effects of depression for both mother and baby are too serious to ignore.

In the much less likely case that a twin dies in the second or third trimester, the remaining baby may be at an increased risk of intrauterine growth restriction and the mother may be at risk of preterm labor, infection or hemorrhaging.

Thus, when breastfeeding mothers touch or are in close proximity to their newborns, they can transmit influenza virus to their newborns, who are at increased risk of severe complications from influenza....

If a mother has a history of corn allergies in her family or is personally allergic to corn, she is at an increased risk for her baby to experience a corn allergy.

I have heard first - hand stories of women being denied epidurals, lied to about the effects of epidural analgesia, and not being provided with proper informed consent about the risks of going to 42 weeks at her 41 week appointment (as in, the mother wasn't told anything that was in the College of Midwives» sample consent document about increased risk of stillbirth).

THEM: * recite SOGC guidelines for induction after 41 weeks, cite data showing an increase in the risk of stillbirth after 39 weeks, particularly amongst older mothers, me with a narrow pelvis, a first - timer carrying a posterior baby estimated at 9.2 lbs, BPP / NST only a snapshot of what's happening right at that moment and while a bad BPP / NST is unequivocally a poor sign, a good BPP / NST is not always indicative of zero issues * And then they played the dead baby card.

Meeting the increased demands of two premature infants places mothers at risk for sleep deprivation.

There is no denying the evidence that labour inductions increase the risk of a cascade of other non-natural interferences which put both the mother and baby at risk.

Certain biologic (injectable) medications that are commonly used to treat the mother's psoriasis and PsA place her at an increased risk of developing infections such as the common cold.

We also discuss how the same underlying cultural beliefs that supported the idea that infants sleep best alone serve presently to permit the acceptance of an inappropriate set of assumptions related to explaining why some babies die unexpectedly while sleeping in their parents beds.9 These assumptions are that regardless of circumstances, including maternal motivations and / or the absence of all known bedsharing risk factors, even nonsmoking, sober, breastfeeding mothers place their infants at significantly increased risk for SUID by bedsharing.

Mothers who overeat during the period when they are breastfeeding may have children who are at increased risk of becoming obese and going through early puberty, a new study of mice suggests.

Expectant women with prenatally diagnosed fear of childbirth are at an increased risk of postpartum depression, according to a study of over 500,000 mothers in Finland.

In fact, the little data that is available on this says that infants who are in the adult be to breastfeed and are then placed back to sleep in a safe crib are not at increased risk of SIDS (those would be the infants like my babies who bedshared in adult bed accidentally because the mother did not plan or intend to bedshare but passed out while night nursing and woke up several hours later).

Both mother and fetus are at increased risk for complications of flu infection during pregnancy.

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.

Babies born to infected mothers are at increased risk of blindness.

Children born to mothers with polycystic ovarian syndrome, PCOS, are at an increased risk of developing autism spectrum disorders, according to a new epidemiological study from Sweden's Karolinska Institutet.

Interestingly, offspring of mothers who smoked at the start of pregnancy had a significantly increased risk of NAFLD.

Preeclamptic mothers and babies born to these preeclamptic moms are also at increased lifetime risk for heart attacks, stroke, and diabetes.

Dr. Alisi and Dr. Vajro also emphasized the study's findings that there is a significantly increased risk of NAFLD in offspring of mothers who smoked at the start of pregnancy.

«We're not 100 percent clear about why,» Woolf - King said, «but we think it has to do with, one, the first surgery typically occurs in the postpartum period when mothers are already at increased risk for mental health issues and, two, the care of the sick child can disproportionately fall on the mother.»

In the largest study of its kind, using Centers for Disease Control data on nearly 14 million linked infant birth and neonatal death data, term singleton U.S. births, researchers at New York - Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medical Center found the absolute risk of neonatal mortality was 3.2 / 10,000 births in midwife hospital births, and 12.6 / 10,000 births in midwife home births, and it further increased in first - time mothers to 21.9 / 10,000 births in midwife home deliveries.

Ben - Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers have found that babies born from mothers who underwent fertility treatments are at increased risk of developing many types of pediatric cancers and tumors (neoplasms).

«Children whose mothers have lupus might be at increased risk of autism spectrum disorders.»

«We found mothers with a previous mental health disorder and experiencing negative perceptions of herself and her infant at NICU discharge were at increased risk for depression one month post discharge, regardless of the infant's gestational age at birth,» explained Hawes.

Also, babies born to infected mothers are at increased risk of blindness.

Mothers who overeat during the period when they are breastfeeding may have children who are at increased risk of becoming obese and going through early puberty, a new study of mice suggests.

Our findings suggest, however, that when breastfeeding mothers do not eat a moderate and healthy diet, there can also be increased risks of various health problems in the offspring, including obesity, diabetes, advanced puberty and reduced fertility,» said lead researcher Mengjie Wang, M.D., M.S., a graduate research assistant at the University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences in Toledo, Ohio.

«Previous studies have indicated that a mother's weight at conception is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases in the children later in life.

«We know that children born to under or over nourished mothers are at an increased risk of health problems such as type - 2 diabetes, and we also see that maternal B12 deficiency may affect fat metabolism and contribute to this risk.

Eating fish more than three times a week during pregnancy was associated with mothers giving birth to babies at increased risk of rapid growth in infancy and of childhood obesity, according to an article published online by JAMA Pediatrics.

Combining information from multiple U.S. data sources, researchers found that mothers with preeclampsia and their infants were at a significantly increased risk for adverse health events compared to mothers without preeclampsia (increased 4.6 % to 10.1 % in mothers and 7.8 % to 15.4 % in infants within 12 months of childbirth).

The study found that children whose mothers developed gestational diabetes by the 26th week of pregnancy were at increased risk of developing autism later in life, highlighting the importance of early prenatal care.

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Children born to mothers who gained too little weight during pregnancy were at increased risk for schizophrenia and other non-affective psychoses later in life, according to new epidemiological research from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.

Not getting enough calcium (and vitamin D during pregnancy) may also increase your risk for pre-eclampsia, a serious condition in which dangerously high blood pressure causes kidney problems and can put the mother and baby's life at risk.

First time mothers are at an increased risk for PPD.

While the causes are unclear, those at increased risk are over age 55; those with a close relative (mother, daughter or sister) with ovarian cancer; and women with a family history of breast, uterine or colon cancers, according to the Valley Health System in Ridgewood, N.J.

Dogs that spend significant time outdoors in tick - infested areas, including dogs used for hunting, tracking or field trial competitions, and dogs receiving blood transfusions, dogs that are prone to fighting with other dogsand puppies born to infected mothers, also are at increased risk of developing babesiosis.