OBJECTIVE Instrumental vaginal delivery is associated with birth trauma to infant and obstetric trauma to mother. As caesarean delivery rates increased during the past decades, the rate of instrumental vaginal delivery declined. We examined concomitant temporal changes in the rates of severe birth trauma and maternal obstetric trauma. DESIGN A retrospective observational study. SETTINGS AND...

The rate of birth trauma in the US has been reported to range between 0.2 and 37 birth traumas per 1000 births. Because of the minimal number of population-based studies and the inconsistencies among the published birth trauma rates, the rate of birth trauma in the US remains unclear. This is a cross-sectional study that was conducted using 890 582 in-hospital birth discharges from the 2003 Hea...

BACKGROUND Birth injuries are defined as the impairment of neonatal body function due to adverse events that occur at birth and can be avoidable or inevitable. Despite exact prenatal care, birth trauma usually occurs, particularly in long and difficult labor or fetal malpresentations. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to investigate the incidence of birth injuries and their related factors in Kasha...

BACKGROUND Prenatal and peripartum trauma may be associated with poor maternal-fetal outcomes. However, relatively few data on these associations exist from low-middle income countries, and populations in transition. OBJECTIVE We investigated the prevalence and risk factors for maternal trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and their association with adverse birth outcomes in the D...

BACKGROUND Trauma occurs in 8% of all pregnancies. To date, no studies have evaluated the effect of the hospital's trauma designation level as it relates to birth outcomes for injured pregnant women. METHODS This population-based, retrospective cohort study evaluated the association between trauma designation levels and injured pregnancy birth outcomes. We linked Washington State Birth and Fe...

OBJECTIVES To determine trends and risk factors for severe perineal trauma between 2000 and 2008. DESIGN This was a population-based data study. SETTING New South Wales, Australia. PARTICIPANTS 510 006 women giving birth to a singleton baby during the period 2000-2008. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Rates of severe perineal trauma between 2000 and 2008 and associated demographic, fetal, antenata...

The patient was a female neonate bornprematurely at 36 weeks of gestation by a Cesareansection. During pregnancy, the mother had nohistory of fever, drug use, or X-ray exposure.The mother was gravida 2 and had no history ofabortion. Her first child was healthy. There wasno record of birth trauma. The perinatal historywas negative for intrauterine trauma, the use ofantithyroid medication, or mis...