Health
For many women, body image and sex life may suffer after episiotomy
Women who have episiotomies after childbirth reported having poorer body image and less satisfying sex lives than women who tear and heal naturally.
Apr 25, 2017
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News tagged with childbirth
Obstetrics & gynaecology
Despite differences in culture, US and India fall short in childbirth in similar ways
After eight years of practicing obstetrics and researching childbirth in the United States, I know as well as anyone that the American maternal health system could be better. Our way of childbirth is the costliest in the ...
Mar 8, 2017
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
What we know about perineal tearing, and how to reduce it during childbirth
A common fear women have when contemplating having a baby is whether the birth will tear the tissues between the vagina and anus, also known as the perineum. How can something as big as a 3.5kg baby come out of something ...
Oct 24, 2016
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Pediatrics
Research evaluates risk factors for postpartum depression in mothers of preterm infants
Postpartum depression is the most common complication of pregnancy and childbirth, affecting up to 15 percent of all women within the first three months following delivery. Research has shown that mothers of infants born ...
Sep 13, 2016
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Study shows women lack confidence in maternity care providers
Every woman who has ever had a baby shower has had to sit through the gruesome war stories about labor and childbirth.
Jun 27, 2016
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
From frozen ovaries to lab-grown babies: the future of childbirth
It is almost 40 years since the first IVF baby, Louise Brown, was born. While this amazing breakthrough was highly controversial at the time, IVF is today commonplace. So how is conception and childbirth likely to change ...
May 26, 2016
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
New study shows benefits of internet-based therapy in overcoming childbirth fear
Women expecting their first child but who are experiencing severe fear of childbirth (FOC) stand to dramatically benefit in reducing their anxieties with cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) delivered via the internet, according ...
May 4, 2016
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Health
Home-based counselling strategies alone may not improve neonatal survival in rural Africa
Implementing a home-based volunteer counselling strategy during pregnancy and the first few days of an infant's life in rural Africa may not be enough to improve neonatal survival, despite improvements in childbirth in health ...
Sep 29, 2015
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Cost of low-risk childbirth varies widely among hospitals
The cost of having a baby can vary by almost $10,000 depending on which hospital is chosen, Yale School of Medicine researchers have found in a study published in the July issue of the journal Health Affairs.
Jul 9, 2015
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Health
Maternal age at childbirth may affect glucose metabolism in their adult male children
A mother's age at childbirth may affect her male baby's birth weight as well as his adult glucose metabolism, new research shows. The results will be presented Friday, March 6, at ENDO 2015, the annual meeting of the Endocrine ...
Mar 6, 2015
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