Sentences with phrase «pregnant women in developing countries»

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There are more than 220 million women in developing countries who don't want to get pregnant, but who lack access to family planning information and contraceptives.

Findings from studies in developed and developing countries have shown that pregnant women harnessed with better knowledge about breastfeeding are more likely to offer breastfeeding, and to follow breastfeeding recommendations afterwards [10].

Do not forget that you are looking at Homebirth within a very specific cultural milieu, that of predominantly white, well off women in developed countries, a culture where pregnant women expect to be the centre of attention during labour and delivery, and to be in control of every aspect of their lives.

Pregnant and postpartum women in most industrialized countries are especially likely to be deficient in Omega - 3s because babies need these fatty acids for their developing nervous systems and have depleted their mothers» stores.

The benefits of vaccinating pregnant women is well documented in developed countries.

More than 200 million women in developing countries are sexually active without effective modern contraception even though they do not want to be pregnant anytime soon, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive health research group.

Half a century ago, thousands of pregnant women in 46 countries took a drug for morning sickness that would later be discovered to cause severe malformations in developing fetuses.

In most developed countries, there's a trend toward people getting married later in life as well as women getting pregnant for the first time later in lifIn most developed countries, there's a trend toward people getting married later in life as well as women getting pregnant for the first time later in lifin life as well as women getting pregnant for the first time later in lifin life.

«A pregnant woman is told by her doctor to get three injections of tetanus toxoid,» he says, referring to a vaccine used to prevent neonatal tetanus, a massive killer of newborn children, especially in developing countries.