منابع مشابه
Water Contamination and the Rate of Infections for Water Births
Objective: The potential for increased risks of infection is an important concern with water births. We performed microbiological analyses on water samples taken from birthing pools before and after water births, and compared the rate of neonatal infection arising after water births with that arising after conventional delivery. Materials and Methods: In this prospective observational study beg...
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The risk of a work related HIV-exposure or infection to midwives, or other HCW, in attending waterbirths of (possible unrecognized) HIV-positive women is unknown. Our goal was the quantification of the loss of blood of the childbearing woman after a waterbirth into the waterpool, in taking pool-water-samples of 14 different waterbirths and measuring the hemoglobin in the plasma, and then correl...
متن کاملReview of 1600 water births. Does water birth increase the risk of neonatal infection?
OBJECTIVES We reviewed 1600 water births at a single institution over an 8-year period. METHODS We compared 737 primiparae deliveries in water with 407 primiparae deliveries in bed, and 142 primiparae on the delivery stool. We also evaluated the duration of labor, perineal trauma, arterial cord blood pH, postpartum maternal hemoglobin levels, and rates of neonatal infection. In 250 water deli...
متن کامل[Birth in water. A comparative study after 555 births in water].
BACKGROUND The object of our study is to research into the quality of the different delivery positions, offered in our hospital with special focus on the advantages for birth in water. METHODS From February 1997 to 1 October 2000 we do research retrospectively on data of 555 deliveries in water, 320 on the traditional bed and 125 on the delivery stool give us the possibility to investigate ab...
متن کاملUnderwater births.
Throughout human existence, women have typically given birth to their offspring on land. Over the last 25 years, however, underwater birth has become more popular in certain parts of the world despite a paucity of data demonstrating that it is either beneficial or safe.1–22 Underwater birth occurs either intentionally or accidentally after water immersion for labor, a procedure promoted primari...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.310.6994.1602b