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A new Kaiser Permanente study, the first integrated survey of maternal depression, shows that more than one in seven women are depressed at some time during the nine months before becoming pregnant, during pregnancy, or in the nine months after childbirth. [click link for full article]
Written by on September 30th, 2007 with no comments.
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A large observational study that tracked women from nine months prior to pregnancy through nine months after delivery has revealed that the number of women diagnosed with depression actually decreases slightly during pregnancy, then rises after delivery. The study also confirmed that many women who experience depression during pregnancy or the postpartum period have a […]
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The Healthcare Commission published its recommendations following an incident at an east London NHS trust where 788 mothers-to-be referred for antenatal care were not booked for appointments. It is releasing a summary of its intervention into the maternity service at the Newham University Hospital NHS Trust, which identified the problem last April. [click link […]
Written by on September 29th, 2007 with no comments.
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New research offers reassurance to women worried about whether getting pregnant after cancer treatment might worsen their prognosis. The study by Norwegian scientists, presented at the European Cancer Conference (ECCO 14) in Barcelona, found that for almost all types of cancer, the survival of women who are diagnosed during pregnancy or who became pregnant after […]
Written by on September 28th, 2007 with no comments.
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A Massachusetts appeal court has ruled that a medical student is allowed to have more time to pump breast milk during an all day exam, said the New York Times on Thursday. [click link for full article]
Written by on September 28th, 2007 with no comments.
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A new Kaiser Permanente study, the first integrated survey of maternal depression, shows that more than one in seven women are depressed at some time during the nine months before becoming pregnant, during pregnancy, or in the nine months after childbirth. [click link for full article]
Written by on September 28th, 2007 with no comments.
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In a move the UK government says aims to offer women more choice, local maternity units are being converted to services run by midwives. How safe they are is discussed in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), this week’s issue. Two experts debate the topic - one in favor, and one against. […]
Written by on September 28th, 2007 with no comments.
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A baby, called Nadia, girl was born in Russia on September 17th weighing 17.5lbs (7.75kg), over two times the average for an infant newborn weight. She was delivered by cesarean section in the Altai region of Siberia. Nadia’s mother, 43, is said to be ‘in shock’ at the size of the baby. Apparently, […]
Written by on September 28th, 2007 with no comments.
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Practical and financial constraints on public sector hospitals could be dictating how and when babies are born. Two new studies (1,2) show that as the number of elective, planned caesarean sections rises, more and more babies are born during the week and fewer come into the world at weekends. It appears that hospitals schedule births […]
Written by on September 27th, 2007 with no comments.
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Although caesarean sections can “sav[e] lives when performed as an emergency intervention” during childbirth, the procedure can cause “more harm than good when overused,” Jennifer Block, author of the book “Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care,” writes in a Los Angeles Times opinion piece. [click link for full article]
Written by on September 27th, 2007 with no comments.
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