Pregnancy & Childbirth

Pregnant women who have had prior preterm births may avoid a subsequent early birth if given progestogens, which are natural or synthetic forms of progesterone, a female hormone that naturally increases during pregnancy, a new analysis shows. ...

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120910122118.htm

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A program delivering collaborative maternity care resulted in fewer Cesarean deliveries, shorter average hospital stays and higher breast-feeding rates for mothers, according to a new study. ...

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120910122345.htm

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A microbial engineer has synthesized a sugar in human milk that is thought to protect babies from pathogens. That's important because 2FL, the shorthand scientists use to describe this human milk oligosaccharide, has not been added to infant formula because HMOs are incredibly expensive. ...

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120910143405.htm

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Pregnant women commonly develop post-traumatic stress, anxiety, and depression when they learn from prenatal diagnosis that they are carrying a fetus with a congenital heart defect (CHD)... ...

Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/250005.php

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Previously existing ideas on how advanced maternal age affects adult health of children have to be reconsidered. It had been thought that mothers delivering later in life have children that are less healthy as adults, because the body of the mother had already degenerated due to physiological effects like decreasing oocyte quality or a weakened pla ...

Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/249961.php

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Preterm babies are born at a higher rate in the United States than in 130 other countries of the world, including many poorer nations, according to the just-released report 'Born Too Soon: The Global Action Report on Preterm Birth... ...

Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/244941.php

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Under some conditions, the brains of embryonic chicks appear to be awake well before those chicks are ready to hatch out of their eggs. That's according to an imaging study in which researchers woke chick embryos inside their eggs by playing loud, meaningful sounds to them. Playing meaningless sounds to the embryos wasn't enough to rouse their brai ...

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120503125806.htm

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More than 10% of babies worldwide are born prematurely, according to a new report issued by Save the Children, WHO (The World Health Organization), The March of Dimes, and Newborn & Child Health... ...

Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/244916.php

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A scheme supporting newly graduated, unemployed, and retired midwives to work in rural areas of Nigeria and provide essential obstetric care has helped to improve maternal, newborn, and child health and could potentially serve as a model for other low-income countries... ...

Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/244850.php

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