BrMedj 1989;298:1671-3 Abstract Objective-To measure the safety and efficacy of antenatal treatment with anti-D immunoglobulin. Design-Open study with historical controls. Setting-Multicentre study in 17 hospitals in West Yorkshire. Patients-1238 Rh negative women who delivered Rh positive infants after 34 weeks in their first pregnancy in 1980-1 (group 1) and 2000 similar primigravidas from 19...

Uterine contractions of more than 2 minutes' duration occurred spontaneously in 1.4% of 6,399 antenatal fetal heart rate (FHR) recordings. All recordings were made in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Tygerberg Hospital. The patients with spontaneous prolonged contractions (SPC) were compared with a randomly selected control group. Patients who had an SPC during antenatal FHR reco...

A new polymer vaginal pessary providing sustained constant release of prostaglandin E2 was administered to 66 patients before planned induction of labour. Effective ripening of the unfavourable cervix was achieved in each of 18 primigravidas, in eight of whom labour was initiated without further treatment. When the cervix was moderately favourable the need for orthodox induction of labour was o...

AIM Serum osteocalcin was shown in a previous study on first trimester pregnant women to correlate with bone density and to distinguish between fast and slow bone losers. The objective of the present study is to examine whether serum osteocalcin is related to vitamin D receptor (VDR) BsmI polymorphism in pregnant women. STUDY DESIGN We determined osteocalcin serum levels and VDR BsmI genotype...

OBJECTIVE The objectives of this study were to investigate prevalence of urinary incontinence at 6 months postpartum and to study how continence status during pregnancy and mode of delivery influence urinary incontinence at 6 months postpartum in primiparous women. DESIGN Cohort study. SETTING Pregnant women attending routine ultrasound examination were recruited to the Norwegian Mother and...

In the process of giving birth, all women expect safe, comfortable and smooth deliveries, so healthy mothers babies. fact, there are lots complications that occur both in delivery even after delivery, one which is bleeding due to tears birth canal. This study aims determine whether a relationship between weight incidence perineal rupture primigravidas at PMB Salabiah, Lhokseumawe City 2022. an ...

in this study the iron status of pregnant women in two different socio-economic groups and also the effect of multigravidity on iron status of the mothers were investigated. blood samples were with drawn from 165 mothers (91 from farah and 74 from missaghieh maternity hospital) immediately after delivery and hemoglobin, hematocrit, serum iron, total iron-binding capacity (tibc) and total protei...

Background: This study determined which clinical situations contributed to and led caesarean delivery in tertiary care hospitals, using Robson’s classification approach, audit the rising prevalence of sections.Methods: retrospective data collection was conducted for 2 years at a hospital. Mothers who gave birth between October 2017 2019 were included study. Using method they categorized into te...

* Department of Nursing, College of Nursing, Hawler Medical University, Erbil, Iraq. Introduction In the experts’ consensus of Geneva, on March 2001, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended that exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) should be given to babies for the first six months. The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) encouraged, promoted, and supported EBF as the model for optimal inf...