Back pain is a kind of discomfort that frequently develops during pregnancy, especially among pregnant women in late pregnancy or those with history back previous pregnancy. Prenatal yoga can relief since it promotes good posture and stretch the spine's central nervous system. This study aims to determine effect exercise on third trimester.This was pre-experimental one group pretest posttest de...

BACKGROUND Evidence suggests that the hormonal milieu of pregnancy is an important determinant of subsequent cancer and other chronic diseases in both the mother and the offspring. Many of the existing maternity and birth cohorts include specimens drawn only once during pregnancy. How well a single blood specimen collected during a pregnancy characterizes exposure to these hormones throughout g...

BACKGROUND This study was performed to verify the correlation between abdominal subcutaneous fat thickness (ASFT) measured by ultrasonography (US) during the first trimester of pregnancy and gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) of the second trimester in Korean women and to establish a standard of ASFT for predicting GDM. METHODS A total of 333 singleton pregnant women participated in this stu...

BACKGROUND Physical activity (PA) patterns during pregnancy have not been explored in depth and most previous studies lack assessment of variables such as type, frequency, duration and intensity of activity. OBJECTIVES This study had two goals: 1) to analyze PA patterns during pregnancy according to weekly time spent on different types of activity; and 2) to determine women's perception about...

background: central nervous system malformations are the second most common congenital malformations after congenital heart diseases. these malformations are associated with many instances of morbidity and mortality which underline the importance of prevention and their early diagnosis. objective: the objective of this study is the diagnosis of neural tube defect (ntds) in the first trimester a...

Placenta accreta is a severe complication of pregnancy normally diagnosed during the second trimester. Early detection could reduce risk hemorrhage abortion or miscarriage; however, guidelines on first-trimester diagnosis are lacking. We describe case placenta first trimester with its sonographic and histological features.

background: vitamin c levels are low in pregnancy. the purpose of this study was to determine serum vitamins c levels among pregnant women attending antenatal care at a general hospital in dawakin kudu, kano, and this can help further research to determine the place of vitamin c supplementation in pregnancy. methods: this was a prospective study of 400 pregnant women who presented for antenatal...

BACKGROUND We hypothesized that hemodynamic adaptations related to pregnancy and ageing might be associated with differences in blood pressure levels during pregnancy between younger and older women. This might partly explain the increased risk of gestational hypertensive disorders with advanced maternal age. We examined the associations of maternal age with systolic and diastolic blood pressur...

BACKGROUND A dominant context for pregnant women in the Western world is medical technologies such as ultrasound and screening. It has been argued that such technologies may result in tentative pregnancies, which may be particularly prominent in the first trimester. However, little is known about how women experience early pregnancy. OBJECTIVE To explore the everyday experiences and expectati...

AIMS to compare the benefits and harms of misoprostol to induce labour in the second and third trimester of pregnancy with cervagem. METHODS MEDLINE was searched using the terms abortion, induced; abortifacient agents; pregnancy, second trimester; pregnancy, third trimester; misoprostol; cervagem; and gemeprost to identify randomised controlled trials in which misoprostol was compared with ce...