Background: Infancy is one of the most critical stages of life, which requires parents to have adequate knowledge in order to provide careful nursing, attention and care for newborns. Given the importance of infant health, it is essential to teach proper child care techniques and principles to primigravida parents. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of education on the awareness of primigr...

BACKGROUND Little is known about fetal outcome after Listeria monocytogenes septicemia in the first trimester of pregnancy. CASE A primigravida with L. monocytogenes septicemia at 9 weeks gestation was treated with amoxicillin. At 40 weeks gestation a healthy female infant was born. CONCLUSION This case shows that fetal outcome can be normal after appropriate treatment of maternal L. monocy...

OBJECTIVE To determine the progress of labour, need of medical and surgical intervention and foetal and maternal outcome in primigravida with high head at term METHODS The prospective descriptive study was conducted at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Peoples University of Medical and Health Sciences, Nawabshah, Pakistan, from Jan 1 to June30, 2011, and comprised 100 primigravida...

Umbilical cord knots occur in 1-2% of all deliveries can lead to increase fetal death and asphyxia. A thorough examination is important discern abnormalities. Although there are not set guidelines for diagnosing managing umbilical knots; reporting with complications will aid decision making better future patient management. We describe one such case a primigravida who was found have an knot.

Introduction: Episiotomy is the surgical enlargement of vaginal orifice by an incision on perineum during last part second stage labour or delivery. most common procedure experienced women. In near past there were many studies pointed out its disadvantages like more post-delivery pain, wound complications and dyspareunia. So, this study was done to compare use restrictive episiotomy routine in ...