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Some groups of migrant women in Australia are at a higher risk of medical interventions in childbirth that may lead to health problems for the mother or child, a new study has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-migrant-women-unassisted-birth.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Mon, 06 May 2013 08:41:50 EST news287048311 Despite efforts to reduce intervention rates during labour, vaginal births without medical intervention are becoming increasingly rare in Australia and overseas: nearly one in three women in Australian now give birth by caesarean; more than half are induced or have the process sped up with drugs; and 50% are given antibiotics to reduce the risk of infection. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-caesarean-sections-susceptibility-disease.html Health Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:40:01 EST news286018037 Women who have suffered a still birth or have medical conditions including varicose veins, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) or heart disease are at greater risk of developing dangerous blood clots after giving birth, a study has revealed. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-reveals-factors-blood-clots-pregnant.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 02 Apr 2013 10:00:01 EST news284114097 Overweight and obese women are more likely to require specialist medical care during their pregnancy due to the increased risk of adverse neonatal and maternal outcomes, finds a new study published today (27 March) in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-overweight-obese-women-higher-adverse.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:00:03 EST news283541626 There is a link between vitamin D insufficiency and adverse health outcomes such as gestational diabetes and preeclampsia in mothers-to-be and low birth weight in newborns, suggests a paper published in BMJ today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-experts-link-doses-vitamin-d.html Health Tue, 26 Mar 2013 18:31:02 EST news283541448 Independent maternal demographic factors such as social status, ethnicity and maternal age can predict the likelihood of operative births in the UK, according to a new study published today (20 March) in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-demographic-factors-births-uk-women.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:11:49 EST news283003902 Antibiotic resistance "has the potential to undermine modern health systems," argue health economists Richard Smith and Joanna Coast on bmj.com today. They believe that an increase in resistant organisms coupled with a big fall in the number of new antimicrobial drugs "suggests an apocalyptic scenario may be looming." http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-antibiotic-resistance-potential-undermine-modern.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:59:09 EST news282225543 Most first-time mothers wait until after 6 weeks postpartum to resume vaginal sex following childbirth and women who have an operative vaginal birth, caesarean section, perineal tear or episiotomy appear to wait longer, suggests a new study published today in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-first-time-mothers-weeks-resuming-sex.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Tue, 26 Feb 2013 19:00:01 EST news281108755 Epidemiologists at Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) have found that pre-pregnancy obesity and excess weight gain during pregnancy in African-American women are associated with an increased risk of giving birth to an abnormally large baby. Macrosomia, which is defined as a newborn weighing more than 4,000 grams at birth (approximately 8.8 pounds), can cause delivery complications such as hemorrhage, infection, the need for a caesarean section, preeclampsia and perinatal mortality. The study, which appears online in the journal Obesity, was conducted by researchers at the Slone Epidemiology Center using data from 59,000 African-American women participating in the Black Women's Health Study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-obesity-excess-weight-gain-pregnancy.html Overweight and Obesity Mon, 11 Feb 2013 12:59:48 EST news279809980 Women are more likely to experience urinary incontinence, prolapse and faecal incontinence 20 years after one vaginal delivery rather than one caesarean section, finds new research published in a thesis from Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-long-term-consequences-vaginal-delivery.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:14:36 EST news278759664 First pregnancies complicated by postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) have no detrimental effect on future fertility but women who have caesarean sections at the time of PPH are less likely to conceive again, finds a new study published today in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-postpartum-hemorrhage-pregnancy-affect-future.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:00:01 EST news278098760 (Medical Xpress)—Caesarean section increases the risk of persistent pelvic girdle pain after delivery compared with vaginal delivery, according to a new study from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-vaginal-delivery-safest-option-women.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Thu, 17 Jan 2013 06:12:51 EST news277625561 As an automatic piano chimed a wedding march, new mother Wang Dan walked down a red carpet towards a hospital room called the "White House", minutes after giving birth in a candlelit water pool. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-natural-birth-tough-china-caesarean.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Fri, 04 Jan 2013 05:20:39 EST news276499231 Collaboration between medical and anthropological expertise can solve complex clinical problems in today's multicultural women's healthcare, shows Pauline Binder, a medical anthropologist, who will present her thesis on 1 December at the Faculty of Medicine, Uppsala University, Sweden. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-anthropological-expertise-multicultural-women-health.html Health Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:13:43 EST news273320004 (HealthDay)—Twenty years after childbirth, the risk of symptomatic pelvic organ prolapse (sPOP) is increased after a single vaginal delivery versus cesarean section, according to a study published online Nov. 2 in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-vaginal-delivery-ups-pelvic-prolapse.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Fri, 09 Nov 2012 13:50:02 EST news271676727 The risk of maternal complications and preterm deliveries is significantly higher for women undergoing their fifth or more caesarean section, finds a new study published today (31 October) in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-higher-maternal-complicationspreterm-deliveries-women.html Health Wed, 31 Oct 2012 03:20:01 EST news270871623 (Medical Xpress)—Carrying too much weight during pregnancy can place both mother and child at risk but new research from the University of Sydney has discovered that one type of fat is riskier than another for mums and unborn babies. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-fat-body-affects-pregnant-mothers.html Overweight and Obesity Fri, 12 Oct 2012 07:33:44 EST news269246018 (Medical Xpress)—Mums-to-be can reduce their chances of excessive weight gain during pregnancy by up to 20% if they swap to a low glycaemic index (GI) diet, say researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-gi-diet-pregnancy-chances-excessive.html Health Wed, 12 Sep 2012 10:20:01 EST news266662874 Vaginal birth triggers the expression of a protein in the brains of newborns that improves brain development and function in adulthood, according to a new study by Yale School of Medicine researchers, who also found that this protein expression is impaired in the brains of offspring delivered by caesarean section (C-sections). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-natural-birth-c-section-triggers.html Neuroscience Wed, 08 Aug 2012 17:00:06 EST news263650738 Caesarean section delivery may double the risk of subsequent childhood obesity, finds research published online in the Archives of Disease in Childhood. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-caesarean-section-delivery-childhood-obesity.html Pediatrics Wed, 23 May 2012 18:30:01 EST news257011021 Induction of labour beyond 37 weeks of pregnancy can reduce perinatal mortality (death before, during or shortly after birth) without increasing caesarean section rates, finds a study published on BMJ today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-labor-birth-complications-cesareans.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Thu, 10 May 2012 18:30:02 EST news255885660 A Mexican woman is due to give birth to six girls and three boys in May, the local media is reporting. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-mexican-woman-due-birth.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:29:28 EST news254755759 Pregnant women who are overweight with moderately elevated blood sugar never set off any alarms for their physicians. The big concern was for women who were obese or who had gestational diabetes because those conditions are known to cause a host of health risks to the mom and baby. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-overweight-moms-moderately-high-blood.html Overweight and Obesity Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:53:25 EST news253367590 In this week's PLoS Medicine, the PLoS Medicine editors discuss new research studies on the risks associated with mode of childbirth following caesarean section. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-mode-childbirth-cesarean-section-women.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:00:04 EST news252083513 Women are nearly three times more likely to experience urinary incontinence for more than 10 years following a vaginal delivery rather than a caesarean section, finds new research at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-incontinence-years-child-birth-common.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Mon, 26 Mar 2012 05:57:00 EST news251960206 In a study to be presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting, in Dallas, Texas, researchers will report findings that suggest that induction of labor in patients who suffer a rupture of membranes between the 34th and 37th week of gestation (before the onset of labor) does not reduce the risk of infection or respiratory problems in the newborn. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-labor-infection-respiratory-problems-newborns.html Other Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:47:54 EST news247985261 Researchers from UQ's Queensland Centre for Mothers & Babies have explored the reasons for the rising rates of caesarean sections in Queensland. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-qcmb-myths-queenslands-caesarean.html Other Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:14:13 EST news246086041 Oversensitivity diseases, or allergies, now affect 25 per cent of the population of Denmark. The figure has been on the increase in recent decades and now researchers at the Copenhagen Prospective Studies on Asthma in Childhood (COPSAC), University of Copenhagen, are at last able to partly explain the reasons. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-dirt-allergy.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 02 Nov 2011 11:37:59 EST news239452672 A University of Birmingham fetal medicine expert has helped to shape new advice from NICE on antenatal care for women pregnant with twins or triplets. Professor Mark Kilby says the new guideline, published today (September 28), charts the way forward for managing multiple pregnancy in the NHS. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-nice-guideline-antenatal-women-pregnant.html Health Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:18:45 EST news236427518 Researchers from the University of Reading have developed the first fully tissue-engineered fetal membrane from human stem cells that could significantly reduce the number of premature births. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-stem-cell-premature-births.html Medical research Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:40:07 EST news234625197