Digital technology-assisted labor support in delivery rooms on maternal pain and anxiety: a systematic review and meta-analysis. [PDF]
Zou S, Wang Y, Fu Y.
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How Does SNAP Access Prior to Pregnancy Affect Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes?
Policy Points Reimposing work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program—by removing temporary, location‐based waivers—causes a decline in food assistance participation among childless women. This loss of nutritional support prior to pregnancy is linked to tangible, negative health outcomes for their infants.
SARAH HAMERSMA, MITCHELL MCFARLANE
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Love's Labor Lost and Maternal Mortality, 30 Years Later. [PDF]
Smith JF.
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State Choices, Unequal Access: Policies Shaping Reproductive Health Care Across the United States
Policy Points State policies and programs play an outsized role in shaping availability and access to sexual and reproductive health services across the nation. This has a major impact on women's access to contraception, abortion, and maternity services.
ALINA SALGANICOFF +2 more
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The use of pessary for pelvic organ prolapse in pregnancy: A case report. [PDF]
Liu W +5 more
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Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior
ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
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Response: A comparison in maternal and neonatal outcomes between mild fundal pressure and vacuum extraction for shortening the second stage of labor-Reconsidering the use of the term "mild fundal pressure" in obstetric practice. [PDF]
Dominsky O +6 more
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ABSTRACT This article considers travel writings by metropolitan men in Republican China about Shanxi and western Inner Mongolia as a case study to further explore the transformations and continuities of Chinese masculinities. Drawing upon a range of popular travel narratives, it shows that so‐called “Worn‐Out Shoes (poxie)” – women perceived as ...
Amanda Zhang
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Utero-placental calcium and magnesium ion channels: A systematic review of obstetric implications of their alterations. [PDF]
Ndinganire G +17 more
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‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture
ABSTRACT Today, defined as the ‘persistent eating of non‐nutritive substances’, pica is a lesser‐known eating disorder with a long history. Defined in early modern England as the ‘desire to eat absurd things’, pica was explicitly gendered, associated with pregnant women and pubescent girls.
Helena C. Aeberli
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