BackgroundBreastfeeding is considered the gold standard in infant feeding, as it provides ideal nutrition for infants. Both World Health Organization (2016) and American Academy of Pediatrics (2012) recommend exclusive breastfeeding from birth until 6 months life.Aim: To investigate association between growth, measured by weight, height, head circumference compared with growth chart.Materials M...

The accuracy of methods used in Cape Town hospitals and clinics for the measurement of weight, length and age in neonates and infants became suspect during a survey of 12 local authority and 5 private sector clinics in 1994-1995 (Harrison et al. 1998). A descriptive prospective study to determine the accuracy of these methods in neonates at four maternity hospitals [2 public and 2 private] and ...

This study was under taken on, “Impact of large family size on the reproductive health of women at Palosi Peshawar”. For this study the researcher contacted 30 women respondents on purposive sampling basis out of 332 married women in Palosi Peshawar (DCR 1998 Peshawar). Interview schedule was used as a tool of data collection for illiterate respondents while questionnaire was used for educated ...

BACKGROUND Consideration of child safeguarding is routine within maternity services but less common in other health services for adults. We audited notifications for child safeguarding from an acute general hospital where the policy includes questioning adults presenting with violence, mental health problems or drug or alcohol misuse to any department within the hospital about children at home ...

OBJECTIVE To describe the prevalence of maternity and paternity among subjects and its association with perinatal, socioeconomic and demographic variables. METHODS The participants were youth, aged 23, on the average, accompanied in a cohort study since they were born, in 1982, in Pelotas (Southern Brazil) and interviewed in 2004-5. Those who were considered eligible referred having had one o...

In today’s mechanized world, the need for a patient-friendly attitude in the hospitals and its psychological effects on the recovery time of patients has been proven. Considering the special pre and post-partum conditions of a pregnant woman, together with the fact that the mother and child cannot be treated as a patient case, makes these psychological effects more critical in this resear...

A licensed obstetrician and gynecologist, Pearl Tang worked to improve the health of women and children in Maricopa County, Arizona, during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Her work with the Maricopa County Health Department ranged from immunizations to preventing cervical cancer. Tang obtained federal grants and community support to establish various child and maternal health clinics ...

The provision of maternity services is a subject close to my heart. Like many other key life experiences nothing can prepare you for the reality of actually having a baby. It wasn't until I became pregnant with my first child Joseph in 1997 that I realised there was much more to having a child than the physical and emotional rigors. The politics of health are not exactly user-friendly, especial...

The relevance of the topic is due to novelty topic, its importance for development family law science and legislation in this area. article provides a systematic analysis right fatherhood motherhood as personal non-property right. author conducts such categories «motherhood» «fatherhood» modern Ukraine. substantiates need enshrine current single legal definition «paternity» «maternity» accordan...