If clinicians are to play a leading role in reducing risks to the fetus, they have to think outside the box. Improved pregnancy outcomes require that medical and health professionals, including midwives and nurses, work with others far beyond the confines of the antenatal clinic and the delivery room. For the WHO-estimated 200 million plus conceptions globally each year, mostly among disadvanta...

Despite ostensibly elevated rates of young female mortality in the past, believed to be associated with the risks of pregnancy and child birth, surprisingly few cases of pregnant female burials are reported in the bioarchaeological literature. This paper describes and discusses the case of a young female who died and was interred with an unborn full-term breech foetus at the Neolithic site of A...

This paper describes the motivation and process of developing a musical instrument for an unborn child. Well established research shows a fetus in the womb can respond to and benefit from stimuli from the outside world. A musical instrument designed for this unique context can leverage the power of this interaction. Two prototypes were constructed and tested during separate pregnancies and the ...

First, an update will be provided with respect to the duty of care owed by physicians to an unborn child, and the ability of that child, once born alive, to claim in negligence against that physician. This update will focus on the Court of Appeal’s 2008 decisions in Bovingdon v. Hergott and Paxton v. Ramji, and the decision of the Court of Appeal in Liebig v. Guelph General Hospital released in...

Smoking cigarettes throughout pregnancy is one of the single most important avoidable causes of adverse pregnancy outcomes and it represents the first major environmental risk of the unborn. If compared with other risk factors in the perinatal period, exposure to tobacco smoke is considered to be amongst the most harmful and it is associated with high rates of long and short term morbidity and ...

INTRODUCTION In the context of the UN's 1990 'Convention on the Right's of the Child' 1990, and the associated definition of health promotion as a community's ability to recognise, define and make decisions on how to create a healthy society, this article describes and analyses how family support networks are conceived and present themselves in perinatal Inuit families. METHODS This literatur...