http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Two-thirds of Australian mums-to-be are in the dark when it comes to how much weight they should gain during pregnancy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-weighty-issue.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Mon, 12 Nov 2012 09:50:01 EST news271934835 (Medical Xpress)—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 placenta. In fact, what affects the health of the grown-up children is not the age of their mother but her education and the number of years she survives after giving birth and thus spends with her offspring. This is the conclusion of a new study by Mikko Myrskylä from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany carried out with data from 18,000 US children and their mothers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-advanced-maternal-age-children-adulthood.html Health Thu, 06 Sep 2012 10:25:44 EST news266145929 (Medical Xpress) -- Mothers who eat more salmon before giving birth boost levels of a vital nutrient in their breast milk, but could lower levels of disease-fighting antibodies they pass on while feeding their baby, researchers have found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-salmon-pregnant-affects-contents-mother.html Health Fri, 03 Aug 2012 10:40:23 EST news263209214 Contraceptive use saves the lives of more than a quarter of million women each year, either from death in childbirth or unsafe abortions, according to estimates published on Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-contraception-year.html Health Tue, 10 Jul 2012 05:30:06 EST news261116289 Some Norwegian women with birth anxiety face additional trauma in their meeting with the country's health service, according to research carried out in Stavanger. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-bad-worse-mothers.html Other Fri, 22 Jun 2012 10:10:50 EST news259578564 A study conducted at the University of Granada has concluded that most immigrant women who give birth in Spain suffer "severe stress" and should receive psychological treatment after giving birth to help them overcome disorders such as obsessive compulsive disorder, phobic anxiety, depression or psychoticism. These disorders are caused by "the stress of labor itself combined with other personal stress factors. This is a very stressful moment in women's life due to biological, psychological and social factors". http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-immigrant-women-birth-spain-great.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Wed, 30 May 2012 09:46:36 EST news257589989 (Medical Xpress) -- Women who are depressed during pregnancy are not at higher risk of giving birth prematurely than non-depressed women — but those who take antidepressants during pregnancy seem to be, a new study by Yale researchers shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-antidepressants-depression-preterm-birth.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Mon, 28 May 2012 06:59:51 EST news257407183 (Medical Xpress) -- The hormone progestin, often given as a first step in infertility treatment for polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), appears to decrease the odds of conception and of giving birth, according to a study by a National Institutes of Health research network. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-progestin-treatment-polycystic-ovarian-syndrome.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Fri, 25 May 2012 05:59:21 EST news257144186 Delayed childbearing for an increasing number of women is putting them at higher risk of serious illness and complications, a new study has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-older-mums-health.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Thu, 17 May 2012 09:00:02 EST news256463451 A single ultrasound scan (known as compression ultrasonography) may safely rule out a diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in women during pregnancy or in the first few weeks after giving birth (post-partum period), finds a study published in the British Medical Journal today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-scan-safely-pregnancy-related-deep-vein.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:30:05 EST news254505927 Hong Kong's next leader said Tuesday he plans to ban pregnant mainlanders from giving birth in the city and deny their children residency rights, in a bid to ease pressure on local hospitals. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-hong-kong-leader-mainland-babies.html Health Tue, 17 Apr 2012 03:37:02 EST news253852615 Australian scientists have discovered for the first time how nature and nurture combine to increase the risk for women of giving birth to a baby with congenital defects, according to a study published today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-scientists-congenital-birthdefects.html Medical research Fri, 06 Apr 2012 09:09:39 EST news252922157 The first study to look at methamphetamine's potential lasting effects on children whose mothers used it in pregnancy finds these kids at higher risk for behavior problems than other children. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-meth-babies-behavior-problems.html Addiction Mon, 19 Mar 2012 05:18:29 EST news251353091 Post-partum haemorrhage (PPH; excessive bleeding) immediately after giving birth is a major killer of women in developing countries, responsible for a third of maternal deaths in Africa and Asia. Results of an international trial published Online First in The Lancet are the first to show that omitting controlled cord traction has little effect on the risk of severe bleeding, indicating that effective prevention of PPH could be accomplished with just a uterotonic agent (e.g. oxytocin). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-approach-post-birth-safe-effective.html Health Mon, 05 Mar 2012 18:30:02 EST news250174567 (Medical Xpress) -- Women with preeclampsia in the first 37 weeks of pregnancy are at greater risk of developing heart problems in the years after giving birth than those who develop the condition in the final weeks, according to new research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-women-preeclampsia-weeks-pregnancy-higher.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:01:01 EST news249210040 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 indicate that women who deliver their first baby early are more likely to have a subsequent baby that is small for its gestational age, even when the second pregnancy is carried to term. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-prior-preterm-delivery-subsequent-baby.html Health Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:20:01 EST news247985214 Women who did not plan to get pregnant are much more likely to stop breastfeeding within three months of giving birth, according to a study published in the journal Current Anthropology. The research suggests that women whose pregnancies were unplanned often experience more emotional and physical discomfort with breastfeeding compared to women who planned to get pregnant. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-breastfeeding-tougher-women-pregnancy-unplanned.html Health Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:16:03 EST news247850154 Women have long bemoaned the fact that as they have more children, their weight gain from pregnancy becomes more difficult to lose. A new study using a mouse model that mimics the human effects of multiparity (giving birth more than once) has found that mouse moms who gave birth four times accrued significantly more fat compared to primiparous females (those giving birth once) of similar age. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-multiple-births-weight-gain-problems.html Health Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:52:13 EST news246819122 Ironically, despite excessive caloric intake, many obese women are deficient in vitamins vital to a healthy pregnancy. This and other startling statistics abound when obesity and pregnancy collide. Together, they present a unique set of challenges that women and their doctors must tackle in order to achieve the best possible outcome for mom and baby. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-myths-truths-obesity-pregnancy.html Sleep apnea Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:10:42 EST news243688210 (Medical Xpress) -- Consuming too many high sugar and high GI foods like white bread and fruit juice during pregnancy can increase the chances of giving birth to a larger baby, according to study findings. And with recent international studies linking higher birth weight to later childhood obesity, researchers are asking moms-to-be to watch their weight before and during pregnancy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-high-sugar-diet-moms-to-be-linked.html Health Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:00:02 EST news241177836 (AP) -- Researchers have found that encouraging women to giver birth in hospitals has contributed to a sharp decrease in the number of infant deaths in China. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-hospital-births-babies-china.html Health Fri, 16 Sep 2011 03:53:07 EST news235363972 Women who have breastfeeding difficulties in the first two weeks after giving birth are more likely to suffer postpartum depression two months later compared to women without such difficulties. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-mothers-breastfeeding-difficulties-postpartum-depression.html Health Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:04:48 EST news230292281 New research finds breastfeeding doesn't appear to protect against multiple sclerosis (MS) relapses, despite previous studies suggesting there may be a protective role. The research is published in the July 6, 2011, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-breastfeeding-ms-relapses.html Neuroscience Wed, 06 Jul 2011 17:01:09 EST news229190454 Women with urinary incontinence after giving birth are almost twice as likely to develop postpartum depression as those without incontinence, according to a new study led by Wendy Sword, a professor in McMaster University's School of Nursing. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-urinary-incontinence-postpartum-depression.html Health Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:56:27 EST news227786175 (Medical Xpress) -- A ground-breaking study of women who have given birth in New Zealand, Scotland and England, has found the strongest evidence yet that having caesarean sections does not always protect women from the common and often distressing after-effect of urinary or faecal incontinence. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-international-caesareans-posh-commonly-believed.html Health Tue, 14 Jun 2011 08:20:09 EST news227258150