Our hypothesis was that women with an elevated fear of birth would emerge as a distinct profile that had poorer pregnancy and birth
outcomes than other women.
Not exact matches
Dr. Fisher believes that dispassionate, rigorous study of birth across all settings is more important
than ever given disparities in
women's access to trained and licensed care providers, current and future physician workforce issues, rising costs of health care, and unacceptably high rates of adverse
outcomes for mothers and infants in the U.S. compared to
other industrialized countries.
For healthy nulliparous
women with a low risk pregnancy, the risk of an adverse perinatal
outcome seems to be higher for planned births at home, and the intrapartum transfer rate is high in all settings
other than an obstetric unit
However, the fact that odds ratios for adverse maternal
outcomes were much lower for parous
women than for nulliparous
women, suggests that
other factors played an important part.
For all low risk
women, bootstrapped estimates showed that planned birth in settings
other than an obstetric unit was associated with cost savings and considerable stochastic uncertainty surrounding adverse perinatal
outcomes.
This review suggests that
women who received midwife - led continuity models of care were less likely to experience intervention and more likely to be satisfied with their care with at least comparable adverse
outcomes for
women or their infants
than women who received
other models of care.
Comparison 1 Midwife - led versus
other models of care for childbearing
women and their infants (all),
Outcome 27 Fetal loss less
than 24 weeks and neonatal death.
Regardless of
outcomes, interventions used, or paths taken, will a
woman who feels in control of her birth choices go on to take more control of
other areas of her life
than a
women who choices a passive role?
«Metabolic syndrome in
women may be more closely related to coronary artery disease
than other cardiovascular
outcomes,» noted Elizabeth Barrett - Connor, MD, corresponding author and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health at UC San Diego School of Medicine.
Spreading confidence to
other women through delivering and keeping the priorities on the results and
outcomes, rather
than allowing any room for any preconceived notions based on gender.
These results are similar to those found in
other sustained nurse home visiting studies, 1 14 although the intervention impacted on a broader range of domains of the home environment for this subgroup of
women than has been reported previously.1 An increasing body of evidence from both animal and human studies suggests that stress in pregnancy has significant impacts on developmental and behavioural
outcomes for children.29 While the mental development of children of mothers who were not distressed antenatally in both the intervention and comparison groups was comparable with the general population, children's development was particularly poor in the distressed subgroup in the absence of the MECSH intervention, suggesting that sustained nurse home visiting may be particularly effective in ameliorating some adverse developmental impacts for children of mothers with antenatal distress.
We acknowledged that sex differences might reliably emerge for
other types of
outcomes (e.g., a
woman's attractiveness might positively predict her offspring's health and survival more strongly
than a man's attractiveness).