Background: The aim of this paper is to describe the development a shared housing model intervention that was designed serve youth experiencing homelessness who are LGBTQ+ and/or pregnant/parenting. built around two guiding philosophies: first and restorative justice. Methods: We engaged in year-long planning process with an advisory group from 1 July 2021 through 30 June 2022. partnership betw...

This Note seeks to build on existing research about how improve childbirth in the United States for women, particularly Black given States’ extremely high maternal mortality rate. Through examining history and characteristics of American Western childbirth, it explore current birth framework contributes mortality. To fight this ongoing harm, I suggest increasing access doulas— nonmedical suppor...

Objective: To determine how a combination of auricular acupuncture, acupoint application and the Doula instrument affects numerical rating scale (NRS) scores, labour time puerperae Apgar scores newborns during natural delivery.
 Methods: This is retrospective study. From January 2021 to December 2022, clinical data were collected from 90 healthy primiparae who completed delivery at Baoding...

In the magnetically torqued disk (MTD) model for hot star disks, as proposed and formulated by Cassinelli et al. (2002), stellar wind mass loss was taken to be uniform over the stellar surface. Here account is taken of the fact that as stellar spin rate So (= √ ΩoR 3/GM) is increased, and the stellar equator is gravity darkened, the equatorial mass flux and terminal speed are reduced, compared ...

BACKGROUND Exclusive breastfeeding is the optimal method of infant feeding. However, breastfeeding rates are notable for profound health disparities, for example, among inner-city African American women. Community-academic partnership offers an opportunity to intervene. OBJECTIVES To describe a targeted breastfeeding intervention anchored on community health worker (CHW) home visits to high-r...

BACKGROUND In Australia the choice to birth at home is not well supported and only 0.4% of women give birth at home with a registered midwife. Recent changes to regulatory requirements for midwives have become more restrictive and there is no insurance product that covers private midwives for intrapartum care at home. Freebirth (planned birth at home with no registered health professional) with...

OBJECTIVE Vasoconstriction during anxiety reduces fetal oxygenation and leads to hypoxia. Hypoxia in turn results in increase of the number of nucleated red blood cells (NRBCs) in the cord blood. The present study aimed to assess the effect of decreasing maternal anxiety on fetal oxygenation and NRBCs count in the cord blood. METHODS . In this study, 150 women were randomly divided into two i...