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Link between C-section Delivery and Stillbirth

...ompared the data to records from the women’s first pregnancies and to information provided in the Scottish Stillbirth and Infant Death Enquiry to determine if there was a link between having a C-section and having a stillborn child. Results of the study show 68 stillbirths were reported in less than 17,760 wome...

Women who conceive after a year have a higher chance of giving birth prematurely

...n Denmark, where women had reported early in their pregnancies how long it took them to get pregnant.About 11 percent of the women had to try for more than a year to get pregnant -- the common definition of infertility -- and about half of them eventually turned to fertility treatment. Among the women who had c...

Women who conceive after a year have a higher chance of giving birth prematurely

...n Denmark, where women had reported early in their pregnancies how long it took them to get pregnant. About 11 percent of the women had to try for more than a year to get pregnant -- the common definition of infertility -- and about half of them eventually turned to fertility treatment. Among the women who h...

Teen dies after complications from abortion pill

...nistration two years ago as a way for women to end pregnancies themselves. Her father is hoping the tragedy will encourage other women considering abortion to seek support, especially from their families. Holly Patterson, who lived in the San Francisco suburb of Livermore, visited a Planned Parenthood clinic S...

Dental Procedure Reduces Preterm Births

...rticipants were between 21 and 25 weeks into their pregnancies and had at least three sites with periodontal attachment loss of three millimeters or greater. Participants received one of three treatments: dental prophylaxis with a placebo; scaling and root planing with a placebo; or scaling and root planing plus...

Wait Between Pregnancies

...men who allow only short intervals of time between pregnancies are at an increased risk for developing complicati...ght. Even women who did not have complicated first pregnancies were at an increased risk for premature birth and neonatal death. Authors of the study say women sh...

Changes in cabin pressure pose risks for moms-to-be

...nal flights), women who are further along in their pregnancies should consult a doctor before flying, says ACOG. Women with medical or obstetric complications, or those at risk for premature labor or placental abnormalities, are advised not to travel by air. Despite the concerns about air travel, barometric pre...

Age should not rule out visectomy reversal

...ncy occurred in 14 (35 percent). Thirteen of these pregnancies were still ongoing or had been delivered by the end of the study. Nearly half of women in their late 30s became pregnant after their male partner had his vasectomy reversed. But women in their 40s were much less likely to conceive. Just 14 percent ...

Abortion may cause mental illness

...chers found that 72% of women who terminated their pregnancies were more likely to be hospitalised for psychiatri...after their pregnancy than women who carried their pregnancies to term. The study also indicated that Women who had an abortion were nearly three times more likely...

Dads to blame for longer pregnancies

...ical Journal that fathers might be responsible for pregnancies that lastlonger than 42 weeks or 294 days. The condition of prolonged pregnancies affectsaround 5% of pregnant mothers. The researchers conducted a study of about 28,000women between...

Pregnancy shouldn't be dissuaded in older age

... of this study observe that there were 52 clinical pregnancies for a total pregnancy rate of 45.5 percent.42.1%. Of the 70 women in the series, 40 (54.5 percent) had live births. Three women carried two consecutive pregnancies. A total of 42 donors provided [eggs] for the 45 deliveries. In 26 cases (58 percent),...

Losing that baby fat among women

...than the recommended amount of weight during their pregnancies were, on average, 4.5 kilograms heavier at the last follow up, while those who gained the prescribed amount were 5.9 kilograms heavier. Women who gained more weight than recommended were 8.4 kilograms heavier. The study also showed exercise and bre...

Pregnancy complications indicate health problems

... justifies monitoring women who have had difficult pregnancies //- for they are at risk of health problems later ...erlying genetic factors influencing both difficult pregnancies and diabetes and heart disease....

Family planning with folate

...ifida by up to 70 per cent, with one in 300 Indian pregnancies affected by a neural tube defect. Neural tube defect can cause a wide range of disabilities such as loss of bladder and bowel control and paralysis of the legs. In some cases the effects can be more severe.Folate supplements can reduce this ill effec...

FDA Imposes New Restrictions On Roche's Accutane

...t to new restrictions aimed at preventing unwanted pregnancies while on the drug. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said that it has approved significant changes to the drugmaker's pregnancy prevention programme. The pregnancy prevention programme was adopted about 13 years ago, when Accutane was conclus...

Antenatal kerosene exposure endangers child's sight

...y exposed to organic solvents at work during their pregnancies than among children whose mothers were not exposed. This is the first study to look at the effects of prenatal exposure on offspring. The researchers compared the vision of 43 children between 3 and 6 years old whose mothers were frequently exposed ...

IVF technique May Increase The Risk Of Birth Defects

...ly developed ICSI, has recently found that in ICSI pregnancies there are three times as many sex chromosome abnormalities, including loss of the Y chromosome. However, the risk was still very low, with only 10 out of almost 1,600 fetuses created by ICSI containing the defects. The team say that mutations in t...

Morning sickness maybe pronounced

...girl, researchers claim. A study of over a million pregnancies in Norway between 1977 and 1985 showed there was a greater risk of the condition for women who were carrying a female child. Though there were more births of boys during the period studied, there was a higher chance of mothers-to-be of girls being ...

Miscarriage linked to late embryos

...onmental Health Sciences found.But most successful pregnancies implant eight, nine or ten days after the egg's re...sample (341 women). The work showed 12 per cent of pregnancies failed if implantation occurred by the ninth day, but the figure rose to 26 per cent when implantati...

Snoring could be a warning

...women with severe pre-eclampsia and 40 with normal pregnancies and found that all the women with pre-eclampsia were snorers.Women with the highest degree of airway obstruction during sleep also had the highest blood pressures. The Australian researchers found that they could prevent both the snoring and the hi...

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