background: some patients with gdm (gestational diabetes mellitus) still experience impaired glucose tolerance after childbirth and will be affected by diabetes mellitus type 2. objectives: the aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between hs-crp serum levels with insulin resistance six weeks after childbirth in patients with gestational diabetes mellitus type 2. methods: in this...

background: traumatic birthing mothers may expose more susceptible to experiences posttraumatic mental disorder such as anxiety. this study aimed to determine the effect of midwifery counseling intervention on the anxiety level after traumatic childbirth of primiparous women. methods: in a randomized control trial 180 woman who had experienced traumatic childbirth based on dsm-iv criteria have ...

conclusions managers and service providers need to know an ordinary woman’s perception of risk to address the gap between current and desired childbirth services and encourage women to use current hospital services. objectives this study explains how baloch women make decisions regarding the risks associated with childbirth at home versus a hospital. this study identifies and defines the factor...

men and women. Dr. Read's premises is that pain is not a normal accompaniment of a physiological process and that pain therefore seems out of keeping with the laws of Nature in a process so vital to the survival of the race as reproduction. Dr. Read's early scientific training gave_ himan interest in 'the influence of the sympathetic nervous system upon the activities of the viscera, the_ inter...

Recently, we presented the cliff-edge model to explain the evolutionary persistence of relatively high incidences of fetopelvic disproportion (FPD) in human childbirth. According to this model, the regular application of Caesarean sections since the mid-20th century has triggered an evolutionary increase of fetal size relative to the dimensions of the maternal birth canal, which, in turn, has i...

The QUALMAT research project aims to improve maternal and newborn health by improving the quality of antenatal and childbirth care provided in primary healthcare facilities. Within the frame of this project, a comprehensive quality assessment took place in selected health centres in northern Ghana. The results of this assessment showed that overall quality of routine antenatal and childbirth ca...

Cognitive assessments of the amount of pain associated with childbirth by parents electing either homebirth (n = 282) or hospital delivery (n = 191) were compared using Thurstone's univariate scaling method of paired comparisons. Subjects compared the pain of childbirth with 8 other painful events. The hospital birth group rated childbirth pain significantly higher than the homebirth group. In ...

Background: Severe fear of childbirth (FOC) is the most important cause of elective and emergency cesarean section and results in an unpleasant experience among women. Implementing a psychoeducational program can promote mothers’ knowledge and reduce the FOC. Aim: the aim of this study was to determine the effect of childbirth psychoeducational program on the FOC intensity in primigravid women....

Höglund, B. 2012. Pregnancy, Childbirth and Midwifery Care among Women with Intellectual Disability in Sweden: Epidemiological and Descriptive Studies. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 832. 61 pp. Uppsala. ISBN 978-91-554-8515-3. The overall aim of this thesis was to investigate pregnancy and childbirth in wome...