PURPOSE To report the incidence of dacryocystoceles detected by prenatal ultrasonography (US) and their postnatal outcomes and to determine the factors associated with the postnatal persistence of dacryocystoceles at birth. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the prenatal US database at our institution for the period between January 2012 and December 2013. The medical records of women who had...

This narrative review of the literature was derived from a search for 2010-2017 publications on postpartum anxiety and postnatal anxiety on the PubMed and PsycINFO databases. Approximately two thirds of the papers are focused on the prevalence/incidence, onset and course of postnatal anxiety. The other third are almost equally distributed across correlates/risk factors and effects/outcomes, and...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Postnatal pelvic floor muscle training aims to rehabilitate the pelvic floor muscles. To be effective, a certain exercise dosage must be respected. Recent trials evaluated the effect of different programs on prevention/treatment of urinary incontinence immediately after delivery and in treatment of persistent incontinence. RECENT FINDINGS Only three systematic reviews, six t...

BACKGROUND Postnatal care is essential to save the life of the mother and newborn. Knowledge on the determinants of postnatal care assists the policy makers to design, justify and implement appropriate interventions. The current study aimed to analyse the factors associated with utilisation of postnatal care services by mothers in Nepal based on the data from Nepal Demographic and Health Survey...

Higher use of maternal and neonatal health (MNH) services may reduce maternal and neonatal mortality in Kenya. This study aims to: 1) prospectively explore women's intentions to use MNH services (antenatal care, delivery in a facility, postnatal care, neonatal care) at <20 and 30-35 weeks' gestation and their actual use of these services; 2) identify predictors of intention-behavior discordance...

Perinatal inflammation is associated with adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes, which may be partly due to changes in the cerebral oxygen delivery/consumption relationship. We aimed to determine the critical oxygen delivery threshold of the brain of preterm, ventilated lambs and to determine whether the critical threshold is affected by exposure to inflammation in utero. Pregnant ewes received i...

BACKGROUND Only about one-third of women in Palestine (West Bank and Gaza) obtain postpartum care. Therefore, the goal of this study was to assess factors associated with lack of postnatal care, women's reasons for not obtaining postnatal care, and their attitudes towards its importance. METHODS In early 2006, a cross-sectional survey was conducted at three clinics run by the Ministry of Heal...

1. Plasma corticosterone concentrations were determined in the foetal rat during the gestational period from day 18.5 to term and in postnatal rats over the first few hours after delivery. 2. The plasma corticosterone concentrations in foetal rats are as high as six times maternal values at day 19 of gestation and are approximately equal to maternal values from day 20 to term. 3. In postnatal r...