OBJECTIVE To compare possible adverse gastrointestinal effects after cesarean section in women who took their first meal early compared with those whose first meal was delayed (8 h versus 24 h). METHODS A total of 151 pregnant women with indications for cesarean section but no medical, obstetric, or surgical complications were randomized to two groups, the early oral feeding group (75 women) ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the risk of emergency cesarean section according to the prepregnancy body mass index (BMI) and gestational weight gain per the 2009 Institute of Medicine guidelines. METHODS A retrospective analysis of data from 2,765 women with singleton full-term births (2009 to 2012) who attempted a vaginal delivery was conducted. Pregnancies with preeclampsia, chronic hypertension, d...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to investigate first-time mothers undergoing cesarean section in the absence of medical indication, their reason for the request, self-estimated health, experience of delivery, and duration of breastfeeding. We also aimed to study if signs of depression postpartum are more common in this group. METHOD In a prospective cohort study 357 healthy primiparas...

OBJECTIVE To investigate associations between mode of delivery and subsequent reproductive outcomes. DESIGN Cohort study. POPULATION Women with term singleton live births from 1987 to 2009. SETTING Denmark, birth registration data. METHODS Women with a first singleton delivery after 37 weeks were followed until the end of 2010, from a first birth to include subsequent live births. We us...

Cardiac arrest one day after cesarean section is extremely rare. Obstetrical clinicians have low experience to these serious situations necessitating immediate first aid and knowledge of its differential diagnosis. A 33-year-old woman underwent elective repeat cesarean section at 38 weeks of gestation under spinal anesthesia. The patient underwent uneventful course on that day. Loss of consciou...

Objective: To study the change in frequency of cesarean section, repeat cesarean section and the indications for repeated cesarean section after 10 years at a tertiary care center in Karachi. Methods: This study was conducted in the department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, unit 1, Abbasi Shaheed Hospital. This retrospective analysis used departmental records to compare cesarean section rates f...

BACKGROUND The current literature indicates increasing concern regarding the number of safe cesarean sections which a woman can undergo, mainly in face of the high cesarean section rates, which are growing in Brazil and worldwide. Aimed to describe the prevalence and associated factors of repeat cesarean section in a cohort of Brazilian women who had a cesarean section in the first birth. MET...

conclusion this study showed that early feeding decreased post cesarean gastrointestinal complications. results no mother experienced nausea, vomiting and illus. flatulence severity 4 and 12 hours after surgery was similar in both groups (p = 0.856, p = 0.392). however, flatulence severity 24, 36 and 48 hours after surgery, was less in the experimental group (p = 0.030, p = 0.016, p = 0.001). a...

INTRODUCTION Caesarean section is obstetrical surgery by which through incision of the abdominal wall and the lower uterine segment performs extraction of the fetus in the advanced stages of pregnancy and childbirth ends by abdominal myomectomy. Because of its significance it is one of the most important surgical procedures performed in gynecology and obstetrics. MATERIAL AND METHODS The goal...