Feminists and those who work in conventional obstetrics have often been at loggerheads. Progress towards mutual understanding has been marginal. Birth and death is different from most books on the subject because it is largely about Ireland and its references and statistics come in the main from famous Irish hospitals, such as the Rotunda in Dublin, and from wellknown Irish doctors such as Sir ...

BACKGROUND Maternal smoking is known to be associated with low educational status, low social class and younger age groups. The aim of this study was to determine if maternal smoking and stage of change relating to smoking is associated with other maternal variables such as intention to breastfeed and attend antenatal classes, having a planned pregnancy, previous obstetric history and child hea...

This paper studies history-dependent risk aversion and focuses on a well-documented behavior called the reinforcement effect (RE), which says that people become less riskaverse after a good history than after a bad history. I show that this seemingly anomalous behavior occurs whenever risk preferences are history-dependent (in a nontrivial way) and satisfy monotonicity with respect to first-ord...

objective: to study the association between social, demographic, cultural and maternal care practice variables and obstetric fistula status in ethiopia. materials and methods: the most recent ethiopia demographic and health survey conducted in 2005 is used to study the association between social, demographic, cultural and maternal care practice and obstetric fistula. we use both univariate and ...

Case presentation: Male, 10 years old, referred to psychiatric care due aggressiveness, stereotyped movements, progressively started 6 months ago, related an outbreak of COVID-19 in the family - patient did not show symptoms. At consultation, mother reported that performed “twitching,” opisthotonic, oculogyric crises, and vocal intonations, addition obsessive movements relieve thoughts somethin...

Obstetric and neonatal outcomes of women who had a history of recurrent miscarriage were compared with a control population from 1 January 1992 to 30 June 1998. Amongst a total of 162 pregnancies which progressed beyond 24 weeks gestation in women with a history of recurrent miscarriage, there were four perinatal deaths and 16 babies were admitted to the special care baby unit. The rates of pre...