Babies born with ambiguous genitalia: exploring the midwife's role in supporting families at birth

Ambiguous Genitalia in the Newborn

Efficient and accurate evaluation of the newborn who has ambiguous genitalia is required to provide appropriate medical therapy and assuage parental anxiety. Genital ambiguity usually is due to virilization of genetic females or undervirilization of genetic males who have normal gonads. Congenital adrenal hyperplasia is the most common condition leading to inappropriate virilization in females....

The Newborn with Ambiguous Genitalia. New Diagnostic

This review contains two parts. Part 1: definition of the problem, description of basic concepts related to normal sexual differentiation, diagnostic orientation for the clinician, and comments on the problem of sex assignment from the personal, social and legal point of views. Part 2 (to be published in the next issue of the Endocrinología Pediatrica On Line Site): description of the most comm...

Ambiguous genitalia and intersex.

Intersex disorders are rare congenital malformations with over 80% being diagnosed with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH). It can be challenging to determine the correct gender at birth and a detailed understanding of the embryology and anatomy is crucial. The birth of a child with intersex is a true emergency situation and an immediate transfer to a medical center familiar with the diagnosi...

Gender self-reassignment in an XY adolescent female born with ambiguous genitalia.

pattern of birth weight of new born babies at a tertiary care level

in the present study conducted at a tertiary care level during the period from 2000-2009, the proportion of birth weight (≥2.5 kg) of new born babies was 80.8%, low birth weight (<2.5 kg) of new born babies was 19.2%. of the new born babies, proportion of very low birth weight (<2 kg) was 6.9%. in this study, sex wise difference in the proportion of low birth weight new born babies was not sign...