BACKGROUND There are not many studies exploring parity differences in early lactation performance and the results obtained are fairly often contradictory. The present study investigated the effect of different maternity home practices in St. Petersburg, Russia, as well as of physiological breast engorgement and maternal mood, on milk production in primi- and multiparous women on day four. The a...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the impact of maternal BMI on intrapartum interventions and adverse outcomes that may influence choice of planned birth setting in healthy women without additional risk factors. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Stratified random sample of English obstetric units. SAMPLE 17,230 women without medical or obstetric risk factors other than obesity. METHODS Mult...

INTRODUCTION Female sex is a risk factor for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). Previous literature suggests that some diastolic dysfunction (DD) develops during pregnancy and may persist postdelivery. Our objective was to examine the relationship between parity and cardiac structure and function in a population-based cohort. METHODS Participants included 1172 Hispanic/La...

Background: The induction of labor (IOL) is a common obstetric intervention, steadily increasing (one out four pregnancies) in the last years. This procedure should be considered only when there medical indication, and benefits outweigh maternal and/or fetal risks waiting for spontaneous onset labor. Therefore, this study aims to compare efficacy IOL terms delivery time, mode delivery, neonatal...

background & aim: the fear of childbirth is defined as the fear experienced before, during and after birth. this study was carried out to study the relationship between fear of childbirth and obstetric variables . methods & materials : : this cross sectional study was conducted in a state hospital in kars, turkey on 403 pregnant women who were recruited from the delivery ward. the convenience s...

According to reports, gallstones are solid clumps of various sizes that grow in the biliary tract, and gallbladder cholelithiasis has been linked some risk factors. Some countries have a higher prevalence stones than others. The study included (81) female subjects aged 20 70 with symptomatic asymptomatic (80) without gallstones. goals current were find association factors (age, diet, family his...

A subpubic cartilaginous cyst is a rare lesion that may present as a vulvar mass or rarely with dysuria. This condition occurs predominantly in multiparous postmenopausal women and is believed to be secondary to degenerative changes in the fibrocartilaginous disc of the symphysis pubis. The midline location, close relationship with the undersurface of the symphysis pubis and the cystic nature a...

Women at ‘low risk’ of pre-eclampsia are most commonly those from unselected obstetric populations and may be nulliparous or multiparous. (Please see Appendix 6.1 for details of individual randomised controlled trials or systematic reviews of randomised controlled trials that reported on the outcomes of pre-eclampsia, gestational hypertension, maternal morbidity, small-for-gestational-age (SGA)...