If you're not sure whether you have medical or
obstetrical problems that would keep you from having a home birth, contact a home birth provider and share your concerns over the phone.
A negative result may rule out serious medical or
obstetrical problems.
The perinatal background index, 8 consisting of 31 items, considers as «best possible» the absence of any social, medical, or
obstetrical problem before and during pregnancy.
Not exact matches
Breast - feeding
problems afterepidural analgesia for labour: a retrospective cohort study of pain,
obstetrical procedure
P. Volmanen et al., «Breast - Feeding
Problems After Epidural Analgesia for Labour: A Retrospective Cohort Study of Pain,
Obstetrical Procedures and Breast - Feeding Practices,» Int J Obstet Anesth 13, no. 1 (2004): 25 — 29.
He states that the U.S. has the highest
obstetrical intervention rates as well as a serious
problem with malpractice suits and concludes that a strong, independent midwifery service in the U.S. would be a most important counterbalance to the present situation.
Prenatal tobacco exposure and
obstetrical complications have both been implicated in the development of externalizing behaviour
problems in children; 1,2 there is now evidence that the impact of prenatal tobacco exposure is greatest in the presence of a specific genetic vulnerability.11
Antenatal depression may not only alter development of stress - related biological systems in the fetus, but may also increase risk of
obstetrical complications.6 Postnatal depression may also be an early life stressor given known associations with lower levels of sensitive, responsive care needed for infants» development of health attachment relationships, emotional regulation skills, interpersonal skills and stress response mechanisms.7 Early life stressors, such as those that might be associated with maternal depression, can influence brain development, which continues at a rapid pace at least for several years after birth.8
Problems in any of these aspects of development may disrupt the earliest stages of socio - emotional and cognitive development, predisposing to the later development of depression or other disorders.