this paper is by terry kemp. she is a midwife with 10 years record of service. in this paper she speaks about her own experience which had burdened her in that condition. herpes gestation is a rare condition and has been defined in books related to autoimmune gestation disease. if your reaction after reading the title of this paper was just shrugging your shoulders and accepting it as a viral i...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of maternal hypothyroxinaemia during early gestation (fT4 below the lowest tenth percentile and TSH within the reference range: 0.15-2.0 mIU/l) on infant development, together with any subsequent changes in fT4 during gestation. DESIGN A prospective 3-year follow-up study of pregnant women and their children up to the age of 2 years. MEASUREMENTS Child devel...

BACKGROUND Rates of preterm birth have increased in most industrialised countries but data on later lung function of late preterm births are limited. A study was undertaken to compare lung function at 8-9 and 14-17 years in children born late preterm (33-34 and 35-36 weeks gestation) with children of similar age born at term (≥37 weeks gestation). Children born at 25-32 weeks gestation were als...

BACKGROUND Recent studies have shown that older mothers who deliver at preterm gestation have lower neonatal mortality rates compared with younger mothers who deliver at preterm gestation. We examined the effect of maternal age on gestational age-specific perinatal mortality. METHODS We compared fetal, neonatal and perinatal mortality rates among singleton births in the United States, 2003-20...

Spontaneous preterm birth includes birth that follows preterm labor, preterm spontaneous rupture of membranes, and cervical insufficiency, but does not include indicated preterm delivery for maternal or fetal conditions (5). The preterm birth rate (birth at less than 37 completed weeks of gestation per 100 total births) increased more than 20% from 1990 to 2006. However, decreases in birth rate...