I am very much honoured by the invitation of the Delhi Maternity Service Co-ordinating Committee to give its fifth annual lecture. I feel particularly humble when I realize that previous lecturers have included such illustrious individuals as General Jolly, Colonel Lazarus and Dr. Balfour, especially in view of my short experience in India. However, quite apart from that, I feel it is of more t...

Respectful maternity care refers to organized for and provided all women in a manner that maintains their dignity, privacy confidentiality, ensures freedom from harm mistreatment, enables informed choice continuous support during labour childbirth (WHO, 2018). Aim: The aim of present study was assess the awareness components respectful among nurse-midwives working units.Method: A descriptive su...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study was to describe policies on early elective delivery (EED) and vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) in rural US maternity hospitals and to measure whether hospital policies differ by staffing, facilities, or birth volume. METHODS Data came from a telephone survey, conducted among all rural maternity hospitals in nine US states from November 2013 to March 2...

OBJECTIVE To explore and describe hospital-birthing women's understandings of and experiences with interventions during labor and birth. METHODS Qualitative data was collected as part of a larger ethnographic study of childbirth in the United States. The grounded theory method was employed to analyze interviews with 59 women from three states who had recently given birth in hospitals with phy...

Anne M'Pherson, set. 20, was admitted to the Maternity Hospital on Tuesday, 20th June 1871, and was delivered of a healthy male child at 4.20 P.M. of the same day. She continued perfectly well until 6 A.M. on Friday, the 23d, when she complained to the nurse that she could not see. About ten minutes afterwards she had a fit of an epileptiform character. It was not of very long duration, but a s...

BACKGROUND The participation of nurses and midwives in vaginal birth care is limited in Brazil, and there are no national data regarding their involvement. The goal was to describe the participation of nurses and nurse-midwives in childbirth care in Brazil in the years 2011 and 2012, and to analyze the association between hospitals with nurses and nurse-midwives in labor and birth care and the ...

BACKGROUND Continuity in the context of healthcare refers to the perception of the client that care has been connected and coherent over time. For over a decade professionals providing maternity and child and family health (CFH) services in Australia and internationally have emphasised the importance of continuity of care for women, families and children. However, continuity across maternity an...

BACKGROUND HIV-positive mothers are likely to exclusively breastfeed if they perceive exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) beneficial to them and their infants. Nevertheless, very little is known in Malawi about HIV-positive mothers' perceptions regarding EBF. In order to effectively promote EBF among these mothers, it is important to first understand their perceptions on benefits of exclusive breastf...

AIM To pay attention to the role of stress connected with delivery, obstetric history, as to the pathologies in the infant as predictors of dissociative disturbances in the patient of the maternity ward. METHOD The case analysis. CASE DESCRIPTION The thirty-year-old woman with secondary education, married and employed had left the maternity ward with her baby unnoticed on the fourth day aft...