Women, isolation and bush babies

First Opinion: Babies, Babies, and More Babies

Quality, equity, and dignity for women and babies.

This Lancet Series on maternal health comes just 1 year after countries committed to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs call on all stakeholders to leave no one behind in addressing the unfi nished agenda for maternal and child health. The Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (Global Strategy) calls for integrated solutions to prevent maternal, newborn...

Birth weight and the survival of babies of diabetic women.

The high perinatal mortality among the babies of diabetic women is often thought to be directly proportionate to their birth weight, but in an earlier analysis of the Edinburgh series the smaller babies at any gestational age were found to be at greater risk. It was also apparent that some pre-diabetic and diabetic women can bear whole families of large babies who progress normally, while other...

Vitamin D study in pregnant women and their babies

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Vitamin D deficiency is very common in pregnant women. Deficiencies have been prevalent even in studies where over 90% of the women took prenatal vitamins. The current guidelines for vitamin D intake during pregnancy of 200-400 IU has little scientific support and has been recently challenged. We conducted this study to determine the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency ...

Response to Snodgrass and Bush.

We sincerely appreciate the comments made by Warren Snodgrass and Nicol Bush regarding our paper. First of all, we need to clarify that of our population of 130 patients only 66 have already reached pubertal development (55 in the preputial flap group and 11 in the staged repair). The aim of the published paper, as already clearly stated in our discussion, was limited to a retrospective analysi...