CONTEXT The precise function of sleep in animals and human beings is still unknown, and any sort of physical, social or psychological variation may change the normal sleep-wake cycle. PURPOSE This research aims is to determine the sleep disorders (SD) for each of the three trimesters of the pregnancy comparing them to the pre-pregnancy state (PG). METHOD SD were investigated in three hundre...

Serial studies on coagulation factors were performed on 12 patients having termination of mid-trimester pregnancy by extra-amniotic prostaglandin F(2)alpha and 11 patients terminated by vacuum aspiration during the first trimester. A significant change in the activity of factors V, VII and X, VIII, and X, and a decrease of the prothrombin time and platelet count were found with prostaglandin te...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the association between weekly weight gain, during the second and third trimesters, classified according to the 2009 Institute of Medicine (IOM/NRC) recommendations, and maternal and fetal outcomes. METHODS Gestational weight gain was evaluated in 2,244 pregnant women of the Brazilian Study of Gestational Diabetes (Estudo Brasileiro do Diabetes Gestacional--EBDG). Out...

BACKGROUND Despite relatively high number of women who attend antenatal care (ANC) in Cameroon, there is an ever-increasing maternal mortality ratio, and pregnancy outcomes remain inadequate. A new suggested Optimal ANC Package includes attending ANC in the first trimester. This study assesses the overall ANC coverage, the percentage, and pregnancy outcomes among women who attended and did not ...

BACKGROUND Fish and meat intake may affect gestational weight gain, body composition and serum fatty acids. We aimed to determine whether a longitudinal dietary intervention during pregnancy could increase fish intake, affect serum phospholipid fatty acids, gestational weight gain and body composition changes during pregnancy in women of normal weight participating in the Pregnancy Obesity Nutr...

The immunophenotypation of circulating lymphocyte by flow cytometry is a fast and efficient modern quantitative method and has been also used to assess immune status in normal pregnancy and pregnancy complicated by infection or with placental abnormalities or with preeclamsia. Since the literature indicates controversy in the immune etiology of abortion and in the levels of circulating lymphocy...

Objective: To determine the association between pregnancy-related discomforts and pre-pregnancy body mass index in a longitudinal study. Methods: The study included 355 pregnant women (age, 31.1 ± 4.1 years). Participants were divided into three groups according to their pre-pregnancy body mass index: the low body mass index group, normal body mass index group, and high body mass index group. T...

This recommendation document follows the mission of World Association Perinatal Medicine (WAPM) in collaboration with Foundation (PMF). We aim to bring together groups and individuals throughout world for precise standardization implement ultrasound evaluation fetus first trimester pregnancy improve early detection anomalies clinical management pregnancy. The is present a that includes statemen...

BACKGROUND High-anxiety and depression rates have been reported in women during pregnancy; however men and parity effects have not been studied as extensively. The purpose of this study was to analyze anxiety and depression in women and their partners during pregnancy, namely differences between the 1st, 2nd and 3rd pregnancy trimesters, between women and men, and between primiparous and multip...

Nitric oxide (NO) has been proposed as a mediator of cervical ripening. We investigated the expression, using Western blotting, and localization, using immunohistochemistry, of the nitric oxide synthase (NOS) enzymes, inducible NOS (iNOS), endothelial NOS (eNOS) and neuronal NOS (bNOS) in the human cervix during pregnancy and parturition. Cervical biopsies were obtained from non-pregnant women,...