OBJECTIVES To estimate the recurrence risk of preterm delivery and estimate the perinatal mortality in repeated preterm deliveries. METHODS Prospective study in Tanzania of 18 176 women who delivered a singleton between 2000 and 2008 at KCMC hospital. The women were followed up to 2010 for consecutive births. A total of 3359 women were identified with a total of 3867 subsequent deliveries in ...

Introduction: The birth weight of an infant is strongly conditioned by health and nutritional status mother important determinant survival, healthy growth development the newborn. Low Birth Weight has been defined World Health Organization as at less than 2500 grams. Materials Methods: 252 babies having between 2.0 Kg to 2.5 born during August 2012 January 2013 in Jamnabai Hospital Vadodara cit...

D uring the past 60-90 years, there has been a change in the growth trajectories of large for gestational age (LGA) babies and the associated health effects later in life. Subjects classified as large at birth in the 1920s were found to have reduced morbidity and mortality in their seventh decade compared with those born of lower birth weight. Indeed, across the birth weight range there was a p...

OBJECTIVE To develop a questionnaire to assess parents' experiences and satisfaction with care during very preterm birth. DESIGN Questionnaire development. SETTING Parents whose babies had been cared for at five tertiary neonatal units in England. POPULATION A total of 145 women who gave birth before 32 weeks of gestation, and 85 of their partners. METHODS A 30-item questionnaire was de...

It is a decade since Professors David Milner and Richard Beard produced data to show that 39% of babies born at 25 weeks' gestation and 16% of those born at 24 weeks' gestation were surviving in the major neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in Britain.' Translated into birth weight, this and other contemporaneous data suggested that at least 20-30% of babies weighing 600-800 g were surviving ...

Agent Orange is a phenoxy herbicide that was contaminated with 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD). We studied pregnancy outcomes among wives of male chemical workers who were highly exposed to chemicals contaminated with TCDD and among wives of nonexposed neighborhood referents. For exposed pregnancies, we estimated serum TCDD concentration at the time of conception using a pharmacokine...

This study aims to explore the experiences of mothers in caring for premature babies who have been treated intensive care unit. type research is qualitative with a phenomenological approach. The results showed that knowledge about was on average same, from definition treatment, support received, and coping mechanisms. In conclusion, interviews informants obtained 6 (six) themes, namely descript...

OBJECTIVE In order to improve our newborn care, we instituted several changes along with training of medical and nursing staff and compared survival rates in babies < 2000g before and after these changes. We also measured Perinatal Mortality Rate (PMR) and Neonatal Mortality Rate (NMR) in general, percentage of Low Birth Weight (LBW) babies and causes of early neonatal deaths at Lady Dufferin H...

Comparison in size at birth was made among Indian mothers of Hindu, Sikh, and Moslem origin living in Leicester and their infants, and white mothers and their infants. White infants were significantly heavier than infants from all Asian subgroups studied and had larger heads. Sikh babies were significantly longer and heavier than Moslem and Hindu babies, and in some respects were more comparabl...