Malm, M.-C. 2016. Fetal Movements in late Pregnancy. Categorization, Self-assessment, and Prenatal Attachment in relation to women’s experiences. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1171. 73 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9446-9. Aim: To explore how pregnant women experience fetal movements in late pregnancy. Specif...

BACKGROUND Delivery is one of the most stressful events in women's life. Excessive anxiety, in turn, increases delivery and pregnancy complications. Mother's positive experience of delivery leads to more effective maternal-fetal attachment in the first few hours of birth. OBJECTIVES The present study aimed to compare the effects of acupressure at two different acupoints on anxiety level and m...

Parental (genomic) imprinting is the process by which the differential expression of maternal and paternal alleles at certain genetic loci in mammalian embryos occurs. Such loci are implicated in the control of fetal, placental and neonatal growth, and, more generally, in diverse aspects of fetal nutrient acquisition and maternal-fetal interactions. Not surprisingly, the aberrant expression of ...

Pre-eclampsia (PE) is a leading cause of maternal and fetal mortality and morbidity. Structural or functional alterations of human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-G present at the maternal-fetal interface may predispose women to PE. We tested the HLA-G gene for association with PE in a case-control study of 83 PE and 240 normotensive Malay women. HLA-G was amplified in a single-tube multiplex-PCR react...

The hormone Insulin-like peptide 3 (INSL3) is a major secretory product of the Leydig cells from both fetal and adult testes. Consequently, it is a major gender-specific circulating hormone in the male fetus, where it is responsible for the first phase of testicular descent, and in the adult male. In most female mammals, circulating levels are very low, corresponding to only a small production ...

A case is presented of an amnionic rupture sequence which led to massive fetal ventral herniation and lordoscoliosis. Characteristic ultrasonographic findings of an omphalocele, fetal attachment to the placenta, and the absence of free-floating umbilical cord were observed.

BACKGROUND Commercial swine breeds in North America undergo two waves of spontaneous fetal loss; one during peri-attachment and another during mid-gestation. Although an exact mechanism for this loss is not known, deficits in vasculature at the attachment sites appear to be a major cause. We hypothesized that a balance between pro-angiogenic and anti-angiogenic factors is needed at the maternal...

OBJECTIVE To estimate whether parental thrombophilic defects after fetal death, either acquired or inherited, were more prevalent than in the normal population and to estimate associations between these thrombophilic defects and different fetal death causes. METHODS In a multicenter, prospective cohort study of 750 fetal deaths, we tested couples for antithrombin, protein C, total and free pr...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of music therapy on anxiety, stress and maternal-fetal attachment in pregnant women during a transvaginal ultrasound. METHODS This study was a nonequivalent control group nonsynchronized design. Pregnant women (n =232) were assigned to experimental (n= 117) and control (n =116) groups respectively. The data were collected from Augus...