Successful treatment of periodontal disease lowered preterm birth incidences
• Childbirth • • Dental Health • Mar 05 10

Previous studies have explored the effect of periodontal treatment, irrespective of efficacy of treatment, in reducing infant prematurity. In a study titled “Risk…    

 

Diabetes helps explain obesity-birth defect link
• Childbirth • • Diabetes • • Gender: Female • • Obesity • Feb 19 10

While some research has suggested that obese women have an increased risk of having a baby with a birth defect, a new study shows…    

 

Simple Steps Could Reduce Stillbirths by up to 1 Million
• Childbirth • Feb 18 10

New findings in a study led by the director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Division of Neonatology show that that…    

 

Each pound at birth lowers risk of developing TB
• Childbirth • • Infections • Jan 08 10

Just one more pound may help a newborn avoid tuberculosis later in life.

Researchers at the University of Michigan looked at how much protection…    

 

Childbirth experience can be improved with the help of a trusted friend
• Childbirth • Jul 19 06

A recent study shows that women who received continuous support in labor by a female support person trained as a “lay doula” had significantly…    

 

“Female circumcision” raises childbirth risks: WHO
• Childbirth • Jun 02 06

Female circumcision, performed on as many as 3 million girls each year, complicates childbirth later in life and causes higher mortality among their babies,…    

 

New sensor to provide early warning of oxygen loss to unborn children
• Childbirth • Feb 14 06

Researchers at the University of Warwick, and the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, have devised a new sensor which dramatically improves the…    

 

Method Fosters Improved Oral Feeding in Infants with Robin Sequence
• Childbirth • Jan 09 06

In fewer than 11 days, infants with moderate to severe breathing problems significantly improved their oral feeding with the help of feeding-facilitating techniques…    

 

Social and professional support in childbirth
• Childbirth • Dec 27 05

Introduction
The nature of support in childbirth
The birth environment: implications for support
   

 

Heart checks could avoid 1 in 10 cot deaths
• Childbirth • Sep 05 05

As many as one in 10 cases of Sudden infant death syndrome could be avoided by early screening for a heart problem…    

 

Mystery infection kills 7 babies in Turk hospital
• Childbirth • Jun 20 05

Seven premature newly born babies - nearly half the number in a Turkish hospital’s intensive care unit - have died after contracting a bacterial…    

 

Tough labor leaves lasting mark on new moms
• Childbirth • May 24 05

Many first-time mothers who go through a tough, prolonged labor say the experience will affect them forever, study suggests.

The study, of 255 Swedish…    

 

Former small babies later struggle to give birth
• Childbirth • Apr 28 05

Women who were very small babies at birth may be less likely to have babies themselves, according to study findings.

Swedish researchers found that…    

 

Arizona surrogate mother gives birth to quintuplets
• Childbirth • Apr 27 05

An Arizona woman who agreed to be a surrogate mother for a couple unable to have children gave birth to five baby boys on…    

 

Let IVF parents choose baby’s sex - UK report
• Childbirth • Mar 24 05

Proposals to allow British parents having fertility treatment to choose the sex of their unborn baby split an influential group of lawmakers on Thursday,…    

 

Baby’s size linked to birth size of both parents
• Childbirth • Mar 11 05

Having a father who was a small infant more than triples the chances that a baby will also be born small. Furthermore, if this…    

 

Childbirth kills 9,000 Tanzanian women annually
• Childbirth • Mar 09 05

Malnutrition and lack of access to healthcare results in 9,000 deaths of Tanzanian women during childbirth each year, the U.N. said Wednesday.

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Sudanese women struggle to survive childbirth - UNFPA
• Childbirth • Mar 08 05

Sudanese women have one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world and desperately need medical help and education, the country head of…    

 

Zimbabwe twins on life support after separation
• Childbirth • Mar 08 05

Seven-month-old conjoined twins from Zimbabwe were in critical condition and on life support on Tuesday after being separated the day before by doctors in…    

 

Nepal’s first test-tube twins born in Katmandu
• Childbirth • Mar 04 05

Impoverished Nepal, battling a deadly Maoist revolt, got a rare bit of good news on Friday when doctors announced the birth of the country’s…    

 

Simple measures could reduce infant deaths
• Childbirth • Mar 03 05

Four million newborns die worldwide each year, but three quarters of them could be easily saved, researchers report on Thursday.

Most of the deaths…    

 

Rocket Fuel Chemical Found in Breast Milk
• Childbirth • Feb 23 05

A chemical used to make rocket fuel that’s particularly toxic to children has been found in all samples of women’s breast milk tested throughout…    

 

U.S. baby said to be smallest to survive goes home
• Childbirth • Feb 09 05

A baby who may be the smallest infant ever to survive has been discharged from a hospital more than four months after she entered…    

 

IVF pre-test avoids serious newborn disease
• Childbirth • Jan 25 05

In a new study, researchers describe the first case in which preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) - a test performed before implantation of a test-tube…    

 

Low birth weights fuel infant mortality rise - CDC
• Childbirth • Jan 24 05

A jump in the number of babies born at abnormally low birth weights was the main reason why the U.S. infant mortality rate rose…    

 

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