BACKGROUND Following previous perinatal loss, women in a subsequent pregnancy may experience heightened emotions, such as anxiety and fear, with a range of longer-term implications. To support these women, the Mater Mothers' Bereavement Support Service in Brisbane, Australia, developed a Pregnancy After Loss Clinic (PALC) as a specialised hospital-based service. The present study investigated t...

who wishes to breastfeed her baby. Mary is confused because her mother has suggested she would find it easier to bottle feed and wants midwifery advice on the matter. In order to educate Mary in this regard, the benefits of breastfeeding for both the mother and baby will be outlined. These benefits will be contrasted against the use of infant formula to demonstrate why breast milk is superior. ...

BACKGROUND Some national guidelines recommend the use of water alone for napkin cleansing. Yet, there is a readiness, amongst many parents, to use baby wipes. Evidence from randomised controlled trials, of the effect of baby wipes on newborn skin integrity is lacking. We conducted a study to examine the hypothesis that the use of a specifically formulated cleansing wipe on the napkin area of ne...

OBJECTIVE To extend previous work and estimate health and social care costs, litigation costs, funeral-related costs, and productivity losses associated with stillbirth in the UK. DESIGN A population-based cost-of-illness study using a synthesis of secondary data. SETTING The National Health Service (NHS) and wider society in the UK. POPULATION Stillbirths occurring within a 12-month peri...

A preterm female baby with birth weight of 1.5kg was referred to our hospital on day 6 for difficulty in breathing. Baby was admitted at birth for respiratory distress and feed intolerance to other hospital and in view of clinical deterioration baby was referred. Baby had thrombocytopenia with platelets counts of 11000/ mm3 and high CRP titer. Baby had petechial haemorrhagic spots all over the ...

The fertility of American women over the last 200 years has two salient features, portrayed in Figure 1. First, it has declined drastically. The average white woman bore 7 children in 1800. By 1990 this had dropped to just 2. This decline in fertility ran unabated during the 140-year period between 1800 and 1940. Second, fertility showed a surprising recovery between the mid1940s and mid-1960s....

Emergency liver transplantation (LT) for acute liver failure (ALF) is a life-saving treatment. Occurrence of this situation in the same patient twice is very rare. Herein, we describe a patient who underwent two emergency LTs for ALF, both from living donors. When she was 26 years old, she underwent a right lobe living donor LT (LDLT) from her sister for ALF due to use of herbal weight loss med...

Herein reported is a case of congenital malignant melanoma in a premature male baby from a 25-year-old healthy mother who was found to have hydramnios at the 29th week of gestation. The pregnancy was interrupted because of a large posterior neck mass detected by ultrasonography. The large neck mass of the baby was a malignant melanoma involving deep dermis and subcutaneous tissue. The skin over...

Stillbirth, the loss of a baby during pregnancy or childbirth, is one most devastating losses parent can experience. The experience stillbirth associated with trauma and intense grief, but mothers’ belief systems be protective against impacts grief. Women in Nigeria endure high burden aim this study was to describe beliefs strategies for coping stillbirth. Twenty mothers bereaved by were interv...