The trend to deliver with caesarean section has increased in the recent years. The factors affecting this trend need re-consideration. Most of the women would deliver normally after a trial of labour alter previous caesarean section. The obstetricians should abide by ethics in clinical practice, carefully evaluate the indication before every caesarean section, and take an unbiased decision befo...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to evaluate the performance indicators for obstetrics and gynecology wards in Iran. METHODS This study was designed as a cross-sectional study and was carried out in obstetrics and gynecology wards of Afshar and Shahid Sadoughi hospitals in 2015. The information required for the performance indicators was gathered through questionnaires, statistical fo...

OBJECTIVE Most pregnant women are anxious about the delivery and up to 30% develop varying degrees of fear of childbirth (FOC). Secondary FOC occurs in parous women who have experienced a traumatic delivery. The aim of this study was to investigate the time to subsequent delivery and delivery outcome in women with secondary FOC, compared with a reference group. SETTING Southeast Sweden. SAM...

Brazil needs to improve maternal and perinatal health care, given the high rates of morbidity, mortality and cesarean sections, the medicalization process of the female body and the violation of the sexual and reproductive rights of women during pregnancy and childbirth. Based on the contribution of international researchers and agencies to address these issues, the scope of this text is to pro...

Featured review: Hodnett, E. D., Gates, S., Hofmeyr, G. J., & Sakala, C. Continuous support for women during childbirth. The Cochrane labor support review has been entirely reconstructed with the following new elements: reviewer team, title, protocol, large randomized controlled trials (RCTs), and subgroup analyses. It also includes expanded background and discussion sections. The new review su...

BACKGROUND Chronic pain after surgery occurs in 10-40% of individuals, including 5-20% of women after cesarean delivery in previous reports. Pain and depression 2 months after childbirth are independently associated with more severe acute post-delivery pain. Here we examine other predictors of pain at 2 months and determine the incidence of pain at 6 and 12 months after childbirth. METHODS Fo...

This study aims to investigate the determinants of female sterilization in Brazil. The analysis is innovative because it adds the time of exposure to the risk of sterilization into survival models. The models control for postpartum duration, age at delivery, parity at delivery, type of delivery, place of delivery, region of residence at the time of interview, color/race, and years of schooling ...