Sentences with phrase «pregnancy outcomes of birth»

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The couple context of pregnancy and its effects on prenatal care and birth outcomes.

We know so much more about how to have a healthy pregnancy and birth and if you couple that with complimentary care between a midwife and doctors we * could * have some of the best birthing outcomes in the world.

Instead of excluding the high risk births from both groups, they include the homebirth outcomes of premature births at 34 - 37 weeks gestation (13 - 17) breech and twins (13,14) lethal anomalies incompatible with life (13,14) unattended homebirths (15,16) unplanned homebirths (15,16) or women who became risked out of homebirth by becoming high risk at the end of pregnancy, had hospital births, but are included in the homebirth group.

And, she notes, «increasing support for pregnant women regardless of the pregnancy's outcome will, over time, change abortion from a form of birth control that lets men off the hook into something both parties are invested in preventing.»

Helping adolescent males to delay fatherhood may also be important from a child health perspective: research that controlled for maternal age and other key factors found teenage fatherhood associated with an increased risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes, including preterm birth, low birth weight and neonatal death (Chen et al, 2007).

Her research portfolio includes findings that suggest disparities in adverse pregnancy outcomes begin as early as conception, multivitamin use around the time of conception prevents some miscarriages, over-the-counter use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents is not a probable cause of miscarriage (and may be protective in some women), and the vast majority of uterine fibroids are not associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes including miscarriage and preterm birth, though fibroids are related to a moderately higher likelihood of cesarean.

Current research includes: co-leading organisational case studies in Birthplace in England, a national study of birth outcomes in home, midwife led, and obstetric led units; investigating the relationship between measures of safety climate and health care quality in A and E and intrapartum care; and conducting nested process evaluations of two trials of obesity in pregnancy behavioural interventions.

Pregnancy and birth outcome are influenced by a variety of factors, but can't be controlled by planning.

Even diving into a fraction of this list will have you feeling empowered and prepared for conception, pregnancy, postpartum and parenting... It includes resources on improving and even ensuring ensuring healthier pregnancy and birth outcomes than the status quo, and preventing and healing from birth trauma so prevalent in the modern world!

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

Objective To compare perinatal outcomes, maternal outcomes, and interventions in labour by planned place of birth at the start of care in labour for women with low risk pregnancies.

For healthy women with low risk pregnancies, the incidence of adverse perinatal outcomes is low in all birth settings

By pretending that «trusting» birth, eating right and having long prenatal appointments can prevent devastating complications, women feel a false sense of control over pregnancy outcomes.

In terms of prevention, a healthy pregnancy and beautiful natural birth are sure ways of encouraging healthy outcome and without birth trauma for you or your baby.

Objective: To collect data from a cohort of women requesting a home birth and examine the experience and outcome of pregnancy, the indications for hospital transfer, and the attitudes of mothers, midwives, and general practitioners.

My midwife gave me a selection of peer - reviewed articles about mothers on opiate medication and as she explained to me, there's no evidence that opiate use during pregnancy causes birth defects etc or long term adverse outcomes (learning disabilities etc).

Secondly, some conditions mentioned in this brochure may increase the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes including premature labor and delivery, birth injury, and stillbirth.

History of previous poor pregnancy outcome (preterm birth, small for gestational age baby, stillbirth, neonatal death)

If policy makers and health care providers want to optimize maternity care, they must consider not only the outcomes of birth, but also the entire process of pregnancy and childbirth.

The aim of our study was to explore whether the initial preferred place of birth at the onset of pregnancy and model of care are associated with differences in the course of pregnancy and intrapartum interventions and birth outcomes.

As part of a Dutch prospective cohort study (2007 — 2011), we compared medical indications during pregnancy and birth outcomes of 576 women who initially preferred a home birth (n = 226), a midwife - led hospital birth (n = 168) or an obstetrician - led hospital birth (n = 182).

We aimed to compare pregnancy characteristics, outcomes and experiences of birth between these profiles.

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.

Since the early 1990s, government policy on maternity care in England has moved towards policies designed to give women with straightforward pregnancies a choice of settings for birth.1 2 In this context, freestanding midwifery units, midwifery units located in the same building or on the same site as an obstetric unit (hereafter referred to as alongside midwifery units), and home birth services have increasingly become relevant to the configuration of maternity services under consideration in England.3 The relative benefits and risks of birth in these alternative settings have been widely debated in recent years.4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Lower rates of obstetric interventions and other positive maternal outcomes have been consistently found in planned births at home and in midwifery units, but clear conclusions regarding perinatal outcome have been lacking.

Most trials of prenatal home visiting have produced disappointing effects on pregnancy outcomes such as birth weight and gestational age, 9,16,17 although one program of prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses has reduced prenatal tobacco use in two trials18, 19 and has reduced pregnancy - induced hypertension in a large sample of African - Americans.20

supporting countries to implement WHO's antenatal care guidelines, aimed at reducing the risk of negative pregnancy outcomes, including preterm births, and ensuring a positive pregnancy experience for all women.

This was expected based on the results of the pregnancy outcome study from which these women were selected, ie, women with exposure to fluoxetine late in pregnancy were more likely to have lower birth weight infants and were also more likely to breastfeed while continuing to use the medication.

Research on the comparative safety of different birth settings tends to exclude «high - risk» pregnancy; conventional wisdom states that women with «high - risk» pregnancies should plan a hospital birth because they are at higher risk of negative pregnancy outcomes.

The SMMIS database is extremely useful for the study of pregnancy outcomes by place of birth, because it overcomes many of the problems inherent within other data sources.

In fact, there is little hard evidence to suggest that, if the pregnancy is «high - risk», a negative outcome is more likely if a home birth is attempted, so there is an argument for including «high - risk» pregnancies in this type of analysis, and this was attempted as part of this research project.

Mike Marsh, BJOG Deputy Editor - in - chief said: «Unintended pregnancy has been linked to poor prenatal care, high risk pregnancy behaviours, increased rates of preterm birth and low birth rate, poor social outcomes in childhood and increased medical costs.

The research involved the largest population cohorts comprehensively examined to date for an association between breast feeding outcomes and place of birth in low risk pregnancies.

Perinatal outcomes included gestational diabetes, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, preterm delivery, birth weight > 4000 g and < 2500 g, and cesarean delivery.In the study population of 868 Asian - white, 3226 Asian, and 5575 white couples there were significant outcome differences.

We used reliable methods to assess the quality of the evidence and looked at seven key outcomes: preterm birth (birth before 37 weeks of pregnancy); the risk of losing the baby in pregnancy or in the first month after birth; spontaneous vaginal birth (when labour was not induced and birth not assisted by forceps; caesarean birth; instrumental vaginal birth (births using forceps or ventouse); whether the perineum remained intact, and use of regional analgesia (such as epidural).

lion of zion, for the specific population of healthy normal woman with healthy normal pregnancies, they have found that home births actually have better outcomes for both baby and mother — i.e. better apgars, better weight gain after the birth, and other indicators of maternal and baby wellbeing.

Perinatal and maternal outcomes by planned place of birth for healthy women with low risk pregnancies: the Birthplace in England national prospective cohort study.BMJ.

The effect of maternal age and planned place of birth on intrapartum outcomes in healthy women with straightforward pregnancies: secondary analysis of the Birthplace national prospective cohort study

We want her to know she is a courageous mama no matter what her birth outcome, stage of pregnancy after loss, or way of birthing.

This comment was in response to the question of whether the changes in the updated pregnancy weight gain guidelines of the Institute of Medicine (2009) made a difference in birth outcomes.

Gaskin, Ina May INA MAY»S GUIDE TO CHILDBIRTH Bantam, 2003 Written by midwifery legend Ina May Gaskin, this book functions as two books in one — a compilation of successful birth stories designed to empower women, and a how - to manual for achieving the best possible pregnancy outcome for both mother and baby.

Our research has shown that, for women with low risk pregnancies in the Netherlands, choosing to give birth at home is a safe choice with an outcome that is at least as good as that of planned hospital birth.

The final stage of developing the ResQu Index was to use it in a systematic review to assess the quality of studies (published between 2000 and 2016) on the maternal and perinatal outcomes of different places of birth, for women with healthy, low - risk pregnancies in high - income countries.

The safety of the nicotine patch therapy during pregnancy was assessed by monitoring for these adverse pregnancy events and birth outcomes.

«Since the increase in opioid use among women has been accompanied by an increase in adverse pregnancy and birth outcomes, including neonatal abstinence syndrome, reproductive - age women should be of particular concern in public health efforts to combat the opioid epidemic.»

After following all of the 926 women who completed the trial for 10 months beyond the trial period for pregnancy outcomes, the researchers found that active acupuncture, with or without clomiphene, compared to control acupuncture and placebo medication, did not increase live births.

While clomiphene is a first - line treatment used to induce ovulation in women with PCOS, it has downsides — namely that in a significant number of women it does not lead to improved ovulation or live births, and if it does induce ovulation, it frequently results in pregnancies with multiples who face much higher negative outcomes including death.

Women with a severe form of morning sickness who take antihistamines to help them sleep through their debilitating nausea are significantly more likely to experience adverse pregnancy outcomes, including low birth weight babies and premature births, a UCLA study has found.

Similar results, described in PLOS ONE, come from a 2017 study of Vietnamese women: Weight gain during the first half of pregnancy had two to three times the influence on infant birth outcomes than weight gain in the second half of pregnancy.

Smoking during pregnancy — particularly among economically - disadvantaged women — leads to a host of poor pregnancy outcomes, including miscarriage, preterm birth, SIDS, and additional adverse effects later in life.

«Our findings have broad implications not only for malaria in pregnancy (125 million pregnancies at risk each year), but also for other globally important causes of adverse birth outcomes such as preeclampsia,» says Dr. Kain, who is also Science Director, Tropical Disease Unit at the Toronto General Hospital, UHN.