Influence of prenatal maternal stress, maternal plasma cortisol and cortisol in the amniotic fluid on birth outcomes and child temperament at 3 months [PDF]
This prospective, longitudinal study aimed to investigate relationships between indicators of maternal prenatal stress, infant birth outcomes and early temperament.
Baibazarova, Eugenia +5 more
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This article explores how fat pregnant people construct successful narratives around their pregnancies and birthing. Fat pregnant people are a critical site for the war on fatness; viewed as irresponsible: threatening the health of their pregnancy, and ...
George Parker, Cat Pausé
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Comparison of academic performance of twins and singletons in adolescence : follow-up study [PDF]
Objectives To determine whether twins in recent cohorts show similar academic performance in adolescence to singletons and to test the effect of birth weight on academic performance in twins and singletons. Design Follow-up study. Setting Denmark.
Bingley, Paul +5 more
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The birth of the clinic. An archaeology of medical perception
JOHN C. KRANTZ, jr., Historical medical classics involving new drugs, Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins Co., 1974, 8vo., pp. x, 129, illus., $8.50. Reviewed by Edwin Clarke, M.D., F.R.C.P., Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 183 Euston Road ...
John C. Krantz
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The nine stages of skin‐to‐skin: practical guidelines and insights from four countries
Incorporating systematic evidence with clinical expertise is a key element in the quest to improve quality of care and patient outcomes. The evidence supporting skin‐to‐skin contact in the first hour after birth is robust and includes significantly ...
Kajsa Brimdyr +5 more
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Structural Racism, Historical Redlining, and Risk of Preterm Birth in New York City, 2013-2017.
Objectives. To assess if historical redlining, the US government's 1930s racially discriminatory grading of neighborhoods' mortgage credit-worthiness, implemented via the federally sponsored Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) color-coded maps, is ...
N. Krieger +8 more
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Reassessing the Duration of the Second Stage of Labor in Relation to Maternal and Neonatal Morbidity. [PDF]
OBJECTIVE: To assess the morbidity associated with continuing the second-stage duration of labor, weighing the probability of spontaneous vaginal birth without morbidity compared with birth with serious maternal or neonatal complications.
Allen +14 more
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Factors affecting antenatal services in a rural area of district Panipat
Background: Being a mother involves many risks which are well known from an era of time. It can range from minor hyperemesis to life threatening hemorrhages.
Manveer Singh +2 more
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Ocular Refraction at Birth and Its Development During the First Year of Life in a Large Cohort of Babies in a Single Center in Northern Italy [PDF]
The purpose of this study was to investigate refraction at birth and during the first year of life in a large cohort of babies born in a single center in Northern Italy.
Bartollino S. +7 more
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Feasibility and Effect of Physiological-Based CPAP in Preterm Infants at Birth
Background: Preterm infants are commonly supported with 5–8 cmH2O CPAP. However, animal studies demonstrate that high initial CPAP levels (12–15 cmH2O) which are then reduced (termed physiological based (PB)-CPAP), improve lung aeration without adversely
Tessa Martherus +7 more
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