OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of feeding during labour on obstetric and neonatal outcomes. DESIGN Prospective randomised controlled trial. SETTING Birth centre in London teaching hospital. PARTICIPANTS 2426 nulliparous, non-diabetic women at term, with a singleton cephalic presenting fetus and in labour with a cervical dilatation of less than 6 cm. INTERVENTION Consumption of a li...

BACKGROUND This study examines the effect of low daily physical activity levels and overweight/obesity in pregnancy on delivery and perinatal outcomes. METHODS A prospective cohort study combining manually collected postnatal notes with anonymised data linkage. A total of 466 women sampled from the Growing Up in Wales: Environments for Healthy Living study. Women completed a questionnaire and...

BACKGROUND Despite extensive evidence that Internet interventions are effective in treating mental health problems, uptake of Internet programs is suboptimal. It may be possible to make Internet interventions more accessible and acceptable through better understanding of community preferences for delivery of online programs. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to assess community preferences for compo...

OBJECTIVE To determine (1) whether the risk of adverse neonatal and delivery outcomes differs between mothers with and without multiple sclerosis (MS) and (2) whether risk is differentially associated with clinical factors of MS. METHODS This retrospective cohort study analyzed data from the British Columbia (BC) MS Clinics' database and the BC Perinatal Database Registry. Comparisons were ma...

OBJECTIVE To differentiate the effect of gestation on the mode of delivery by analysing the difference in the mode of induction, length of labour and the difference in parity or Bishop score and their effect on the mode of delivery of postdates women. STUDY DESIGN A cross-sectional observational study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY PAEC General Hospital, Islamabad, from July 2006 to July 2008...

BACKGROUND Dystocia is the most common indication of primary cesarean section. The most common cause of dystocia is uterine dysfunction. In prolonged labor, more attention is usually paid to the fetus and pelvis rather than to the role of uterine contractions in a delivery. Therefore, we decided to determine the relationship between the labor progress and uterine contractions shapes. METHODS ...

Background: It is proposed in different studies that different types of anesthesia affect the physiological status of the neonate while other studies revealed no change. Aim: To determine and compare the changes in neonatal APGAR score at 1 and 5 minutes according to the type of anesthesia. Study design: It was a comparative study and was conducted in Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, Lahor...

We present a monolithic passively Q-switched microchip laser generating 200 ps pulses at a wavelength of 1064 nm with a repetition rate of up to 2 MHz. While maintaining transversal and longitudinal single-mode operation, the pulse energy can be changed from 130 nJ to 400 nJ by varying the pump conditions of the laser. To the best of our knowledge, the repetition rate of 2 MHz is by far the hig...