Issue 1/2014
Content (426 Articles)
Maternal obesity and fetal deaths: results from the Brazilian cross-sectional demographic health survey, 2006
Mariana Santos Felisbino-Mendes, Fernanda Penido Matozinhos, J Jaime Miranda, Eduardo Villamor, Gustavo Velasquez-Melendez
Navigating maternity health care: a survey of the Canadian prairie newcomer experience
Zubia Mumtaz, Beverley O’Brien, Gina Higginbottom
Infant motor development in rural Vietnam and intrauterine exposures to anaemia, iron deficiency and common mental disorders: a prospective community-based study
Thach D Tran, Tuan Tran, Julie A Simpson, Ha T Tran, Trang T Nguyen, Sarah Hanieh, Terence Dwyer, Beverley-Ann Biggs, Jane Fisher
Prioritizing investments in innovations to protect women from the leading causes of maternal death
Tara M Herrick, Claudia M Harner-Jay, Alice M Levisay, Patricia S Coffey, Michael J Free, Paul D LaBarre
Pain relief in labour: a qualitative study to determine how to support women to make decisions about pain relief in labour
Joanne E Lally, Richard G Thomson, Sheila MacPhail, Catherine Exley
Snoring during pregnancy and its relation to sleepiness and pregnancy outcome - a prospective study
Maria Sarberg, Eva Svanborg, Ann-Britt Wiréhn, Ann Josefsson
Psychometric properties of the Swedish childbirth self-efficacy inventory (Swe-CBSEI)
Ing-Marie Carlsson, Kristina Ziegert, Eva Nissen
A randomized controlled trial to assess the clinical and cost effectiveness of a nurse-led Antenatal Asthma Management Service in South Australia (AAMS study)
Luke E Grzeskowiak, Gustaaf Dekker, Karen Rivers, Kate Roberts-Thomson, Anil Roy, Brian Smith, Jeffery Bowden, Robert Bryce, Michael Davies, Justin Beilby, Anne Wilson, Philippa Middleton, Richard Ruffin, Jonathan Karnon, Vicki L Clifton
Labouring women who used a birthing pool in obsteric units in Italy: prospective observational study
Jane Henderson, Ethel E Burns, Anna L Regalia, Giovanna Casarico, Mary G Boulton, Lesley A Smith
Correlates and outcomes of preterm birth, low birth weight, and small for gestational age in HIV-exposed uninfected infants
Jennifer A Slyker, Janna Patterson, Gwen Ambler, Barbra A Richardson, Elizabeth Maleche-Obimbo, Rose Bosire, Dorothy Mbori-Ngacha, Carey Farquhar, Grace John-Stewart
Metabolic heterogeneity of follicular amino acids in polycystic ovary syndrome is affected by obesity and related to pregnancy outcome
Chun-mei Zhang, Yue Zhao, Rong Li, Yang Yu, Li-ying Yan, Li Li, Na-na Liu, Ping Liu, Jie Qiao
Brief education to increase uptake of influenza vaccine among pregnant women: a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Valerie WY Wong, Daniel YT Fong, Marie Tarrant
Is attendant at delivery associated with the use of interventions to prevent postpartum hemorrhage at home births? The case of Bangladesh
Ndola Prata, Suzanne Bell, Martine Holston, Mohammad A Quaiyum
Anti-diabetic drug utilization of pregnant diabetic women in us managed care
Caitlin A Knox, Joseph AC Delaney, Almut G Winterstein
Mobile phones improve antenatal care attendance in Zanzibar: a cluster randomized controlled trial
Stine Lund, Birgitte B Nielsen, Maryam Hemed, Ida M Boas, Azzah Said, Khadija Said, Mkoko H Makungu, Vibeke Rasch
Academic performance, educational aspiration and birth outcomes among adolescent mothers: a national longitudinal study
Yiqiong Xie, Emily Wheeler Harville, Aubrey Spriggs Madkour
The prevalence of severe maternal morbidity and near miss and associated factors in Sergipe, Northeast Brazil
Larissa Paes Leme Galvão, Fabiano Alvim-Pereira, Caio Menezes Machado de Mendonça, Filipe Emanuel Fonseca Menezes, Kaique Andre do Nascimento Góis, Ruy Farias Ribeiro Jr, Ricardo Queiroz Gurgel
Effects of demand-side financing on utilisation, experiences and outcomes of maternity care in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review
Susan F Murray, Benjamin M Hunter, Ramila Bisht, Tim Ensor, Debra Bick
Coverage, quality of and barriers to postnatal care in rural Hebei, China: a mixed method study
Li Chen, Wu Qiong, Michelle Helena van Velthoven, Zhang Yanfeng, Zhang Shuyi, Li Ye, Wang Wei, Du Xiaozhen, Zhang Ting
Effect of mode of delivery on perceived risks of maternal health outcomes among expectant parents: a cohort study in Beijing, China
Wen-Ying Li, Tippawan Liabsuetrakul, Babill Stray-Pedersen
Private health care coverage and increased risk of obstetric intervention
Jennifer E Lutomski, Michael Murphy, Declan Devane, Sarah Meaney, Richard A Greene
Open access intrapartum CTG database
Václav Chudáček, Jiří Spilka, Miroslav Burša, Petr Janků, Lukáš Hruban, Michal Huptych, Lenka Lhotská
Effective suckling in relation to naked maternal-infant body contact in the first hour of life: an observation study
Ruth M Cantrill, Debra K Creedy, Marie Cooke, Fiona Dykes
A pragmatic cluster randomized clinical trial of diabetes prevention strategies for women with gestational diabetes: design and rationale of the Gestational Diabetes’ Effects on Moms (GEM) study
Assiamira Ferrara, Monique M Hedderson, Cheryl L Albright, Susan D Brown, Samantha F Ehrlich, Bette J Caan, Barbara Sternfeld, Nancy P Gordon, Julie A Schmittdiel, Erica P Gunderson, Ashley A Mevi, Ai-Lin Tsai, Jenny Ching, Yvonne Crites, Charles P Quesenberry Jr
Antenatal psychosomatic programming to reduce postpartum depression risk and improve childbirth outcomes: a randomized controlled trial in Spain and France
Maria Assumpta Ortiz Collado, Marc Saez, Jérôme Favrod, Marie Hatem
The role of gestational diabetes, pre-pregnancy body mass index and gestational weight gain on the risk of newborn macrosomia: results from a prospective multicentre study
Salvatore Alberico, Marcella Montico, Valentina Barresi, Lorenzo Monasta, Caterina Businelli, Valentina Soini, Anna Erenbourg, Luca Ronfani, Gianpaolo Maso
Birth setting, transfer and maternal sense of control: results from the DELIVER study
Caroline C Geerts, Trudy Klomp, Antoine LM Lagro-Janssen, Jos WR Twisk, Jeroen van Dillen, Ank de Jonge
Factors associated with small size at birth in Nepal: further analysis of Nepal Demographic and Health Survey 2011
Vishnu Khanal, Kay Sauer, Rajendra Karkee, Yun Zhao
Adapting iron dose supplementation in pregnancy for greater effectiveness on mother and child health: protocol of the ECLIPSES randomized clinical trial
Victoria Arija, Francesc Fargas, Gemma March, Susana Abajo, Josep Basora, Josefa Canals, Blanca Ribot, Estefania Aparicio, Nuria Serrat, Carmen Hernández-Martínez, Núria Aranda
Vacuum assisted birth and risk for cerebral complications in term newborn infants: a population-based cohort study
Cecilia Ekéus, Ulf Högberg, Mikael Norman
A qualitative study exploring women’s beliefs about physical activity after stillbirth
Jennifer L Huberty, Jason Coleman, Katherine Rolfsmeyer, Serena Wu
Umbilical vein injection of misoprostol versus normal saline for the treatment of retained placenta: intrapartum placebo-controlled trial
Sheelan S Rajab, Shahla K Alalaf
Maternal deaths in eastern Indonesia: 20 years and still walking: an ethnographic study
Suzanne Belton, Bronwyn Myers, Frederika Rambu Ngana
Inter-pregnancy weight change impacts placental weight and is associated with the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes in the second pregnancy
Jacqueline M Wallace, Sohinee Bhattacharya, Doris M Campbell, Graham W Horgan
Preterm birth by vacuum extraction and neonatal outcome: a population-based cohort study
Katarina Åberg, Mikael Norman, Cecilia Ekéus
From screening to postpartum follow-up – the determinants and barriers for gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) services, a systematic review
Karoline Kragelund Nielsen, Anil Kapur, Peter Damm, Maximilian de Courten, Ib Christian Bygbjerg
Women’s views and experiences of antenatal care in Iraq: a Q methodology study
Nazar P Shabila, Hamdia M Ahmed, Maryam Y Yasin
Women’s perception of quality of maternity services: a longitudinal survey in Nepal
Rajendra Karkee, Andy H Lee, Paras K Pokharel
Caseload midwifery compared to standard or private obstetric care for first time mothers in a public teaching hospital in Australia: a cross sectional study of cost and birth outcomes
Sally K Tracy, Alec Welsh, Bev Hall, Donna Hartz, Anne Lainchbury, Andrew Bisits, Jan White, Mark B Tracy
Risk factors for maternal mortality in a Tertiary Hospital in Kenya: a case control study
Faith Yego, Catherine D’Este, Julie Byles, Jennifer Stewart Williams, Paul Nyongesa
Community-based screening for obstetric fistula in Nigeria: a novel approach
Özge Tunçalp, Adamu Isah, Evelyn Landry, Cynthia K Stanton
What factors explain pregnant women’s feeding intentions in Bradford, England: A multi-methods, multi-ethnic study
Baltica Cabieses, Dagmar Waiblinger, Gillian Santorelli, Rosemary RC McEachan
Clinical guidelines for postpartum women and infants in primary care–a systematic review
Crishan Haran, Mieke van Driel, Benjamin L Mitchell, Wendy E Brodribb
Explaining ecological clusters of maternal depression in South Western Sydney
John Eastwood ED, Lynn Kemp, Bin Jalaludin
Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV services in Adama town, Ethiopia: clients’ satisfaction and challenges experienced by service providers
Anteneh Asefa, Getnet Mitike
In a maternity shared-care environment, what do we know about the paper hand-held and electronic health record: a systematic literature review
Glenda Hawley, Tina Janamian, Claire Jackson, Shelley A Wilkinson
Maternal morbidity and preterm birth in 22 low- and middle-income countries: a secondary analysis of the WHO Global Survey dataset
Joshua P Vogel, Anne CC Lee, João Paulo Souza
Male involvement during pregnancy and childbirth: men’s perceptions, practices and experiences during the care for women who developed childbirth complications in Mulago Hospital, Uganda
Dan K Kaye, Othman Kakaire, Annettee Nakimuli, Michael O Osinde, Scovia N Mbalinda, Nelson Kakande
Outcomes of non-vertex second twins, following vertex vaginal delivery of first twin: a secondary analysis of the WHO Global Survey on Maternal and Perinatal Health
Joshua P Vogel, Erica Holloway, Cristina Cuesta, Guillermo Carroli, João Paulo Souza, Jon Barrett
Systematic review of heath care interventions to improve outcomes for women with disability and their family during pregnancy, birth and postnatal period
Reem Malouf, Maggie Redshaw, Jennifer J Kurinczuk, Ron Gray
Challenges in delivery of skilled maternal care – experiences of community midwives in Pakistan
Mariyam Sarfraz, Saima Hamid
Immersion in water for pain relief and the risk of intrapartum transfer among low risk nulliparous women: secondary analysis of the Birthplace national prospective cohort study
Mirjam Lukasse, Rachel Rowe, John Townend, Marian Knight, Jennifer Hollowell
Trends and risk factors for neonatal mortality in Butajira District, South Central Ethiopia, (1987-2008): a prospective cohort study
Muluken Gizaw, Mitike Molla, Wubegzier Mekonnen
Male partner involvements in PMTCT: a cross sectional study, Mekelle, Northern Ethiopia
Fisaha Haile, Yemane Brhan
Birth control: to what extent do women report being informed and involved in decisions about pregnancy and birth procedures?
Rachel Thompson, Yvette D Miller
Fetal growth restriction and the risk of perinatal mortality–case studies from the multicentre PORTO study
Julia Unterscheider, Keelin O’Donoghue, Sean Daly, Michael P Geary, Mairead M Kennelly, Fionnuala M McAuliffe, Alyson Hunter, John J Morrison, Gerard Burke, Patrick Dicker, Elizabeth C Tully, Fergal D Malone
Public views of acceptability of perinatal mental health screening and treatment preference: a population based survey
Dawn Kingston, Sheila McDonald, Suzanne Tough, Marie-Paule Austin, Kathy Hegadoren, Gerri Lasiuk
Labour management and Obstetric outcomes among pregnant women admitted in latent phase compared to active phase of labour at Bugando Medical Centre in Tanzania
Clotrida Chuma, Albert Kihunrwa, Dismas Matovelo, Marietha Mahendeka
Is in vitro fertilization associated with preeclampsia? A propensity score matched study
Noriyoshi Watanabe, Takeo Fujiwara, Tomo Suzuki, Seung Chik Jwa, Kosuke Taniguchi, Yuji Yamanobe, Kazuto Kozuka, Haruhiko Sago
Psychological violence against pregnant women in a prenatal care cohort: rates and associated factors in São Luís, Brazil
Marizélia Rodrigues Costa Ribeiro, Antônio Augusto Moura da Silva, Maria Teresa Seabra Soares de Britto e Alves, Rosângela Fernandes Lucena Batista, Lourdes Maria Leitão Nunes de Rocha, Lilia Blima Schraiber, Nilzângela Lima Medeiros, Danielle Cristina Silva Costa, Heloisa Bettiol, Marco Antônio Barbieri
Prevention of gestational diabetes through lifestyle intervention: study design and methods of a Finnish randomized controlled multicenter trial (RADIEL)
Kristiina Rönö, Beata Stach-Lempinen, Miira M Klemetti, Risto J Kaaja, Maritta Pöyhönen-Alho, Johan G Eriksson, Saila B Koivusalo
Physical violence during pregnancy and pregnancy outcomes in Ghana
Michelle Sharon Pool, Easmon Otupiri, Ellis Owusu-Dabo, Ank de Jonge, Charles Agyemang
Talcum powder or aqueous gel to aid external cephalic version: a randomised controlled trial
Narayanan Vallikkannu, Wan Nordin Nadzratulaiman, Siti Zawiah Omar, Khaing Si Lay, Peng Chiong Tan
Modeling maternal mortality in Bangladesh: the role of misoprostol in postpartum hemorrhage prevention
Ndola Prata, Suzanne Bell, Md Abdul Quaiyum
Alcohol consumption during pregnancy and birth outcomes: the Kyushu Okinawa Maternal and Child Health Study
Yoshihiro Miyake, Keiko Tanaka, Hitomi Okubo, Satoshi Sasaki, Masashi Arakawa
Efficacy of prenatal ultrasonography in diagnosing urogenital developmental anomalies in newborns
Artur Beke, Fanni Rebeka Eros, Barbara Pete, Istvan Szabo, Eva Gorbe, Janos Rigo Jr
Pregnancy-related low back pain and pelvic girdle pain approximately 14 months after pregnancy – pain status, self-rated health and family situation
Cecilia Bergström, Margareta Persson, Ingrid Mogren
The Mother-Newborn Skin-to-Skin Contact Questionnaire (MSSCQ): development and psychometric evaluation among Iranian midwives
Fatemeh Nahidi, Sedigheh Sadat Tavafian, Mohammad Heidarzadeh, Ebrahim Hajizadeh, Ali Montazeri
A complex intervention to improve pregnancy outcome in obese women; the UPBEAT randomised controlled trial
Annette L Briley, Suzanne Barr, Shirlene Badger, Ruth Bell, Helen Croker, Keith M Godfrey, Bridget Holmes, Tarja I Kinnunen, Scott M Nelson, Eugene Oteng-Ntim, Nashita Patel, Stephen C Robson, Jane Sandall, Thomas Sanders, Naveed Sattar, Paul T Seed, Jane Wardle, Lucilla Poston
The role of support and other factors in early breastfeeding cessation: an analysis of data from a maternity survey in England
Laura L Oakley, Jane Henderson, Maggie Redshaw, Maria A Quigley
Exploring the first delay: a qualitative study of home deliveries in Makwanpur district Nepal
Joanna Morrison, Rita Thapa, Machhindra Basnet, Bharat Budhathoki, Kirti Tumbahangphe, Dharma Manandhar, Anthony Costello, David Osrin
Maternal positioning to correct occipito-posterior fetal position in labour: a randomised controlled trial
Marie-Julia Guittier, Véronique Othenin-Girard, Olivier Irion, Michel Boulvain
The Public’s views of mental health in pregnant and postpartum women: a population-based study
Dawn E Kingston, Sheila Mcdonald, Marie-Paule Austin, Kathy Hegadoren, Gerri Lasiuk, Suzanne Tough
Cesarean section in a high-parity community in Saudi Arabia: clinical indications and obstetric outcomes
Mohammed A Al Rowaily, Fahad A Alsalem, Mostafa A Abolfotouh
Chronic diseases in pregnant women: prevalence and birth outcomes based on the SNiP-study
Ines Kersten, Anja Erika Lange, Johannes Peter Haas, Christoph Fusch, Holger Lode, Wolfgang Hoffmann, Jochen Rene Thyrian
Clinical audit to enhance safe practice of skilled birth attendants for the fetus with nuchal cord: evidence from a refugee and migrant cohort
Megan Parr, Colley Paw Dabu, Nan San Wai, Paw Si Say, Ma Ner, Nay Win Tun, Aye Min, Mary Ellen Gilder, François H Nosten, Rose McGready
Recurrent secondary postpartum hemorrhages due to placental site vessel subinvolution and local uterine tissue coagulopathy
Pavol Zubor, Karol Kajo, Karol Dokus, Stefan Krivus, Lubomir Straka, Kristina Biskupska Bodova, Jan Danko
An inexpensive device to treat postpartum hemorrhage: a preliminary proof of concept study of health provider opinion and training in Nepal
Nancy L Kerr, Mark Hauswald, Suman Raj Tamrakar, David A Wachter, Gillian M Baty
Factors associated with severe maternal morbidity and near miss in the São FranciscoValley, Brazil: a retrospective, cohort study
Alvaro José Correia Pacheco, Leila Katz, Alex Sandro Rolland Souza, Melania Maria Ramos de Amorim
Factors associated with the use and quality of antenatal care in Nepal: a population-based study using the demographic and health survey data
Chandni Joshi, Siranda Torvaldsen, Ray Hodgson, Andrew Hayen
Routine administration of Anti-D: the ethical case for offering pregnant women fetal RHDgenotyping and a review of policy and practice
Julie Kent, Anne-Maree Farrell, Peter Soothill
Nifedipine versus atosiban in the treatment of threatened preterm labour (Assessment of Perinatal Outcome after Specific Tocolysis in Early Labour: APOSTEL III-Trial)
Elvira OG van Vliet, Ewoud Schuit, Karst Y Heida, Brent C Opmeer, Marjolein Kok, Wilfried Gyselaers, Martina M Porath, Mallory Woiski, Caroline J Bax, Kitty WM Bloemenkamp, Hubertina CJ Scheepers, Yves Jaquemyn, Erik van Beek, Hans JJ Duvekot, Maureen TM Franssen, Bas N Bijvank, Joke H Kok, Arie Franx, Ben Willem J Mol, Martijn A Oudijk
Public and private pregnancy care in Reggio Emilia Province: an observational study on appropriateness of care and delivery outcomes
Laura Bonvicini, Silvia Candela, Andrea Evangelista, Daniela Bertani, Morena Casoli, Annarella Lusvardi, Antonella Messori, Paolo Giorgi Rossi
Healthy living in pregnancy: a cluster-randomized controlled trial to prevent excessive gestational weight gain - rationale and design of the GeliS study
Kathrin Rauh, Julia Kunath, Eva Rosenfeld, Luzia Kick, Kurt Ulm, Hans Hauner
Severe maternal morbidity and maternal near miss in the extremes of reproductive age: results from a national cross- sectional multicenter study
Fernando César Oliveira Jr, Fernanda Garanhani Surita, João Luiz Pinto e Silva, José Guilherme Cecatti, Mary Angela Parpinelli, Samira M Haddad, Maria Laura Costa, Rodolfo Carvalho Pacagnella, Maria Helena Sousa, João Paulo Souza
Satisfaction with life during pregnancy and early motherhood in first-time mothers of advanced age: a population-based longitudinal study
Vigdis Aasheim, Ulla Waldenström, Svein Rasmussen, Birgitte Espehaug, Erica Schytt
Sero-positivity rate of rubella and associated factors among pregnant women attending antenatal care in Mwanza, Tanzania
Berno Mwambe, Mariam M Mirambo, Stephen E Mshana, Anthony N Massinde, Benson R Kidenya, Denna Michael, Domenica Morona, Charles Majinge, Uwe Groß
Drinking before and after pregnancy recognition among South African women: the moderating role of traumatic experiences
Karmel W Choi, Laurie A Abler, Melissa H Watt, Lisa A Eaton, Seth C Kalichman, Donald Skinner, Desiree Pieterse, Kathleen J Sikkema
Carotid artery elasticity decreases during pregnancy - the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns study
Henna Kärkkäinen, Heli Saarelainen, Pirjo Valtonen, Tiina Laitinen, Olli T Raitakari, Markus Juonala, Mika Kähönen, Nina Hutri-Kähönen, Seppo Heinonen, Tomi Laitinen
Estudio Parto: postpartum diabetes prevention program for hispanic women with abnormal glucose tolerance in pregnancy: a randomised controlled trial – study protocol
Lisa Chasan-Taber, Bess H Marcus, Milagros C Rosal, Katherine L Tucker, Sheri J Hartman, Penelope Pekow, Barry Braun, Tiffany A Moore Simas, Caren G Solomon, JoAnn E Manson, Glenn Markenson
Qualitative assessment of attitudes and knowledge on preterm birth in Malawi and within country framework of care
Judy Levison, Debora Nanthuru, Grace Chiudzu, Peter N Kazembe, Henry Phiri, Susan M Ramin, Kjersti M Aagaard
Rate of spontaneous onset of labour before planned repeat caesarean section at term
Christine L Roberts, Michael C Nicholl, Charles S Algert, Jane B Ford, Jonathan M Morris, Jian Sheng Chen
Secular trends of low birthweight and macrosomia and related maternal factors in Beijing, China: a longitudinal trend analysis
Xiaoyi Shan, Fangfang Chen, Wenpeng Wang, Juan Zhao, Yue Teng, Minghui Wu, Honghong Teng, Xue Zhang, Hong Qi, Xiaohong Liu, Chunying Tan, Jie Mi
In vivo assessment of number of milk duct orifices in lactating women and association with parameters in the mother and the infant
Julia Jütte, Ariane Hohoff, Cristina Sauerland, Dirk Wiechmann, Thomas Stamm
Diabetes in pregnancy among First Nations women in Alberta, Canada: a retrospective analysis
Richard T Oster, Malcolm King, Donald W Morrish, Maria J Mayan, Ellen L Toth
Effect of maternal obesity with and without gestational diabetes on offspring subcutaneous and preperitoneal adipose tissue development from birth up to year-1
Kirsten Uebel, Karina Pusch, Kurt Gedrich, Karl-Theo M Schneider, Hans Hauner, Bernhard L Bader
Obstetric analgesia for vaginal birth in contemporary obstetrics: a survey of the practice of obstetricians in Nigeria
Lucky O Lawani, Justus N Eze, Okechukwu B Anozie, Chukwuemeka A Iyoke, Nduka N Ekem
Obstetric outcomes for nulliparous women who received routine individualized treatment for severe fear of childbirth - a retrospective case control study
Gunilla Sydsjö, Marie Bladh, Caroline Lilliecreutz, Anna-Maria Persson, Hanna Vyöni, Ann Josefsson
A comparison of the prevalence of prenatal alcohol exposure obtained via maternal self-reports versus meconium testing: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis
Shannon Lange, Kevin Shield, Gideon Koren, Jürgen Rehm, Svetlana Popova
Birth Preparedness and Complication Readiness (BPCR) interventions to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality in developing countries: systematic review and meta-analysis
Dieudonné Soubeiga, Lise Gauvin, Marie A Hatem, Mira Johri
Reasons for performing a caesarean section in public hospitals in rural Bangladesh
Mamuda Aminu, Bettina Utz, Abdul Halim, Nynke van den Broek
Intimate partner abuse before and during pregnancy as risk factors for postpartum mental health problems
Sarah L Desmarais, Ashley Pritchard, Evan M Lowder, Patricia A Janssen
Appropriateness of elective caesarean deliveries in a perinatal network: a cross-sectional study
Françoise Vendittelli, Marie-Caroline Tassié, Laurent Gerbaud, Didier Lémery
A triple risk model for unexplained late stillbirth
Jane Warland, Edwin A Mitchell
Obstetric interventions in two groups of hospitals in Catalonia: a cross-sectional study
Ramón Escuriet, María Pueyo, Herminia Biescas, Cristina Colls, Isabel Espiga, Joanna White, Xavi Espada, Josep Fusté, Vicente Ortún
Improving interprofessional coordination in Dutch midwifery and obstetrics: a qualitative study
Vera LN Schölmerich, Anke G Posthumus, Halleh Ghorashi, Adja JM Waelput, Peter Groenewegen, Semiha Denktaş
False positive morphologic diagnoses at the anomaly scan: marginal or real problem, a population-based cohort study
Anne Debost-Legrand, Hélène Laurichesse-Delmas, Christine Francannet, Isabelle Perthus, Didier Lémery, Denis Gallot, Françoise Vendittelli
Is antenatal care preparing mothers to care for their newborns? A community-based cross-sectional study among lactating women in Masindi, Uganda
Richard Mangwi Ayiasi, Simon Kasasa, Bart Criel, Christopher Garimoi Orach, Patrick Kolsteren
Intravenous ferric carboxymaltose for anaemia in pregnancy
Bernd Froessler, Joshua Collingwood, Nicolette A Hodyl, Gustaaf Dekker
Implementation and evaluation of the Helping Babies Breathe curriculum in three resource limited settings: does Helping Babies Breathe save lives? A study protocol
Akash Bang, Roopa Bellad, Peter Gisore, Patricia Hibberd, Archana Patel, Shivaprasad Goudar, Fabian Esamai, Norman Goco, Sreelatha Meleth, Richard J Derman, Edward A Liechty, Elizabeth McClure, Waldemar A Carlo, Linda L Wright
Effects of socioeconomic position and clinical risk factors on spontaneous and iatrogenic preterm birth
KS Joseph, John Fahey, Ketan Shankardass, Victoria M Allen, Patricia O’Campo, Linda Dodds, Robert M Liston, Alexander C Allen
Stakeholder views on the incorporation of traditional birth attendants into the formal health systems of low-and middle-income countries: a qualitative analysis of the HIFA2015 and CHILD2015 email discussion forums
Onikepe Oluwadamilola Owolabi, Claire Glenton, Simon Lewin, Neil Pakenham-Walsh
Antenatal telephone support intervention with and without uterine artery Doppler screening for low risk nulliparous women: a randomised controlled trial
Vikki J Snaith, Jenny Hewison, Ian N Steen, Stephen C Robson
Impact of a nationwide study for surveillance of maternal near-miss on the quality of care provided by participating centers: a quantitative and qualitative approach
Adriana Gomes Luz, Maria José Duarte Osis, Meire Ribeiro, José Guilherme Cecatti, Eliana Amaral
The relationship between severe maternal morbidity and psychological health symptoms at 6–8 weeks postpartum: a prospective cohort study in one English maternity unit
Marie Furuta, Jane Sandall, Derek Cooper, Debra Bick
Maternal hyperuricemia in normotensive singleton pregnancy, a prenatal finding with continuous perinatal and postnatal effects, a prospective cohort study
Elaheh Amini, Mahdi Sheikh, Sedigheh Hantoushzadeh, Mamak Shariat, Alireza Abdollahi, Maryam Kashanian
Contribution of prepregnancy body mass index and gestational weight gain to caesarean birth in Canada
Susie Dzakpasu, John Fahey, Russell S Kirby, Suzanne C Tough, Beverley Chalmers, Maureen I Heaman, Sharon Bartholomew, Anne Biringer, Elizabeth K Darling, Lily S Lee, Sarah D McDonald
Basic vaginal pH, bacterial vaginosis and aerobic vaginitis: prevalence in early pregnancy and risk of spontaneous preterm delivery, a prospective study in a low socioeconomic and multiethnic South American population
Leticia Krauss-Silva, Antonio Almada-Horta, Mariane B Alves, Karla G Camacho, Maria Elizabeth L Moreira, Alcione Braga
Availability of drugs and medical supplies for emergency obstetric care: experience of health facility managers in a rural District of Tanzania
Dickson Ally Mkoka, Isabel Goicolea, Angwara Kiwara, Mughwira Mwangu, Anna-Karin Hurtig
A cluster randomized implementation trial to measure the effectiveness of an intervention package aiming to increase the utilization of skilled birth attendants by women for childbirth: study protocol
Gajananda P Bhandari, Narayan Subedi, Janak Thapa, Bishnu Choulagai, Mahesh K Maskey, Sharad R Onta
Effect of education and clinical assessment on the accuracy of post partum blood loss estimation
Hanan M Al-Kadri, Hanan Dahlawi, Mona Al Airan, Elham Elsherif, Nasser Tawfeeq, Yane Mokhele, Drika Brown, Hani M Tamim
Midtrimester preterm prelabour rupture of membranes (PPROM): expectant management or amnioinfusion for improving perinatal outcomes (PPROMEXIL – III trial)
Augustinus S P van Teeffelen, David P van der Ham, Christine Willekes, Salwan Al Nasiry, Jan G Nijhuis, Sander van Kuijk, Ewoud Schuyt, Twan L M Mulder, Maureen T M Franssen, Dick Oepkes, Fenna A R Jansen, Mallory D Woiski, Mireille N Bekker, Caroline J Bax, Martina M Porath, Monique W M de Laat, Ben W Mol, Eva Pajkrt
Saving mothers and newborns in communities: strengthening community midwives to provide high quality essential newborn and maternal care in Baluchistan, Pakistan in a financially sustainable manner
Zubia Mumtaz, Andrea Cutherell, Afshan Bhatti
Health workers’ perceptions of facilitators of and barriers to institutional delivery in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia
Tesfay Gebrehiwot, Miguel San Sebastian, Kerstin Edin, Isabel Goicolea
Geophagy practices and the content of chemical elements in the soil eaten by pregnant women in artisanal and small scale gold mining communities in Tanzania
Elias C Nyanza, Mary Joseph, Shahirose S Premji, Deborah SK Thomas, Cynthia Mannion
Influence of delivery characteristics and socioeconomic status on giving birth by caesarean section – a cross sectional study during 2000–2010 in Finland
Sari Räisänen, Mika Gissler, Michael R Kramer, Seppo Heinonen
Suboptimal care and maternal mortality among foreign-born women in Sweden: maternal death audit with application of the ‘migration three delays’ model
Annika Esscher, Pauline Binder-Finnema, Birgit Bødker, Ulf Högberg, Ajlana Mulic-Lutvica, Birgitta Essén
Ultrasound study of carotid and cardiac remodeling and cardiac-arterial coupling in normal pregnancy and preeclampsia: a case control study
Li-Jun Yuan, Yun-You Duan, Dan Xue, Tie-Sheng Cao, Ning Zhou
Assessing the quality of record keeping for cesarean deliveries: results from a multicenter retrospective record review in five low-income countries
Evelyn Landry, Celia Pett, Renee Fiorentino, Joseph Ruminjo, Cristina Mattison
Antenatal exercise in overweight and obese women and its effects on offspring and maternal health: design and rationale of the IMPROVE (Improving Maternal and Progeny Obesity Via Exercise) randomised controlled trial
Sumudu N Seneviratne, Graham K Parry, Lesley ME McCowan, Alec Ekeroma, Yannan Jiang, Silmara Gusso, Geovana Peres, Raquel O Rodrigues, Susan Craigie, Wayne S Cutfield, Paul L Hofman
Post-partum trend in blood pressure levels, renal function and proteinuria in women with severe preeclampsia and eclampsia in Sub-Saharan Africa: A 6-months cohort study
Francois Folefack Kaze, Francis A Njukeng, Andre-Pascal Kengne, Gloria Ashuntantang, Robinson Mbu, Marie Patrice Halle, Tazoacha Asonganyi
Why 'down under' is a cut above: a comparison of rates of and reasons for caesarean section in England and Australia
Samantha J Prosser, Yvette D Miller, Rachel Thompson, Maggie Redshaw
A comprehensive representation of the birth-experience: identification and prioritization of birth-specific domains based on a mixed-method design
Fania R Gärtner, Liv M Freeman, Marlies E Rijnders, Johanna M Middeldorp, Kitty WM Bloemenkamp, Anne M Stiggelbout, M Elske van den Akker-van Marle
Immigrant and non-immigrant women’s experiences of maternity care: a systematic and comparative review of studies in five countries
Rhonda Small, Carolyn Roth, Manjri Raval, Touran Shafiei, Dineke Korfker, Maureen Heaman, Christine McCourt, Anita Gagnon
Electromyographic analysis of masseter muscle in newborns during suction in breast, bottle or cup feeding
Ellia CL França, Cejana B Sousa, Lucas C Aragão, Luciane R Costa
Does induction of labor for constitutionally large-for-gestational-age fetuses identified in utero reduce maternal morbidity?
Françoise Vendittelli, Olivier Rivière, Brigitte Neveu, Didier Lémery
WHO multicentre study for the development of growth standards from fetal life to childhood: the fetal component
Mario Merialdi, Mariana Widmer, Ahmet Metin Gülmezoglu, Hany Abdel-Aleem, George Bega, Alexandra Benachi, Guillermo Carroli, Jose Guilherme Cecatti, Anke Diemert, Rogelio Gonzalez, Kurt Hecher, Lisa N Jensen, Synnøve L Johnsen, Torvid Kiserud, Alka Kriplani, Pisake Lumbiganon, Ann Tabor, Sameera A Talegawkar, Antoinette Tshefu, Daniel Wojdyla, Lawrence Platt
Creatine supplementation during pregnancy: summary of experimental studies suggesting a treatment to improve fetal and neonatal morbidity and reduce mortality in high-risk human pregnancy
Hayley Dickinson, Stacey Ellery, Zoe Ireland, Domenic LaRosa, Rodney Snow, David W Walker
Smoothing out the transition of care between maternity and child and family health services: perspectives of child and family health nurses and midwives’
Kim Psaila, Sue Kruske, Cathrine Fowler, Caroline Homer, Virginia Schmied
Low birth weight in São Luís, northeastern Brazil: trends and associated factors
Helma Jane Ferreira Veloso, Antônio Augusto Moura da Silva, Heloísa Bettiol, Marcelo Zubarán Goldani, Fernando Lamy Filho, Vanda Maria Ferreira Simões, Rosângela Fernandes Lucena Batista, Marco Antônio Barbieri
Readiness of district and regional hospitals in Burkina Faso to provide caesarean section and blood transfusion services: a cross-sectional study
Georges Dayitaba Compaoré, Issiaka Sombié, Rasmané Ganaba, Sennen Hounton, Nicolas Meda, Vincent De Brouwere, Matthias Borchert
Delays in receiving obstetric care and poor maternal outcomes: results from a national multicentre cross-sectional study
Rodolfo C Pacagnella, José G Cecatti, Mary A Parpinelli, Maria H Sousa, Samira M Haddad, Maria L Costa, João P Souza, Robert C Pattinson
A comparison of maternal and neonatal outcomes between water immersion during labor and conventional labor and delivery
Yinglin Liu, Yukun Liu, Xiuzhi Huang, Chuying Du, Jing Peng, Peixian Huang, Jianping Zhang
The effect of social support around pregnancy on postpartum depression among Canadian teen mothers and adult mothers in the maternity experiences survey
Theresa HM Kim, Jennifer A Connolly, Hala Tamim
A randomised controlled trial on the Four Pillars Approach in managing pregnant women with anaemia in Yogyakarta–Indonesia: a study protocol
Widyawati Widyawati, Suze Jans, Hans Bor, Rukmono Siswishanto, Jeroen van Dillen, Antoine LM Lagro-Janssen
Prepregnancy body mass index and risk of preterm birth: association heterogeneity by preterm subgroups
Margaret G Parker, Fengxiu Ouyang, Colleen Pearson, Matthew W Gillman, Mandy B Belfort, Xiumei Hong, Guoying Wang, Linda Heffner, Barry Zuckerman, Xiaobin Wang
Seasonal ambient air pollution correlates strongly with spontaneous abortion in Mongolia
Davaasambuu Enkhmaa, Nicole Warburton, Badrakh Javzandulam, Jadambajav Uyanga, Yarinpil Khishigsuren, Sereeter Lodoysamba, Shonkuuz Enkhtur, David Warburton
Determinants of maternal health service utilization in Ethiopia: analysis of the 2011 Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey
Shegaw Mulu Tarekegn, Leslie Sue Lieberman, Vincentas Giedraitis
The Welsh study of mothers and babies: protocol for a population-based cohort study to investigate the clinical significance of defined ultrasound findings of uncertain significance
Lisa Hurt, Melissa Wright, Fiona Brook, Susan Thomas, Frank Dunstan, David Fone, Gareth John, Sue Morris, David Tucker, Marilyn Ann Wills, Lyn Chitty, Colin Davies, Shantini Paranjothy
Evaluation of the quality of antenatal care using electronic health record information in family medicine clinics of Mexico City
Svetlana V Doubova, Ricardo Pérez-Cuevas, Eduardo Ortiz-Panozo, Bernardo Hernández-Prado
No global consensus: a cross-sectional survey of maternal weight policies
Courtney Scott, Christopher T Andersen, Natali Valdez, Francisco Mardones, Ellen A Nohr, Lucilla Poston, Katharina C Quack Loetscher, Barbara Abrams
The Midland and North of England Stillbirth Study (MiNESS)
Jayne Platts, Edwin A Mitchell, Tomasina Stacey, Bill L Martin, Devender Roberts, Lesley McCowan, Alexander E P Heazell
Individual and community determinants of neonatal mortality in Ghana: a multilevel analysis
Gbenga A Kayode, Evelyn Ansah, Irene Akua Agyepong, Mary Amoakoh-Coleman, Diederick E Grobbee, Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch
Perinatal mortality by gestational week and size at birth in singleton pregnancies at and beyond term: a nationwide population-based cohort study
Nils-Halvdan Morken, Kari Klungsøyr, Rolv Skjaerven
Women participating in a web-based preconception study have a high prevalence of risk factors for adverse pregnancy outcomes
Elisabetta Pandolfi, Eleonora Agricola, Micaela Veronica Gonfiantini, Francesco Gesualdo, Mariateresa Romano, Emanuela Carloni, Pierpaolo Mastroiacovo, Alberto E Tozzi
Prevention of congenital malformations and other adverse pregnancy outcomes with 4.0 mg of folic acid: community-based randomized clinical trial in Italy and the Netherlands
Renata Bortolus, Fenneke Blom, Francesca Filippini, Mireille NM van Poppel, Emanuele Leoncini, Denhard J de Smit, Pier Paolo Benetollo, Martina C Cornel, Hermien EK de Walle, Pierpaolo Mastroiacovo
Duration of exclusive breastfeeding in a Brazilian population: new determinants in a cohort study
Tatiana O Vieira, Graciete O Vieira, Nelson F de Oliveira, Carlos M C Mendes, Elsa Regina J Giugliani, Luciana R Silva
Utilization of institutional delivery service at Wukro and Butajera districts in the Northern and South Central Ethiopia
Seifu Hagos, Debebe Shaweno, Meselech Assegid, Alemayehu Mekonnen, Mesganaw Fantahun Afework, Saifuddin Ahmed
Child feeding knowledge and practices among women participating in growth monitoring and promotion in Accra, Ghana
Sandra Gyampoh, Gloria Ethel Otoo, Richmond Nii Okai Aryeetey
Delivery, immediate newborn and cord care practices in Pemba Tanzania: a qualitative study of community, hospital staff and community level care providers for knowledge, attitudes, belief systems and practices
Usha Dhingra, Joel Gittelsohn, Atifa Moh’d Suleiman, Shekhia Moh’d Suleiman, Arup Dutta, Said Mohammed Ali, Shilpi Gupta, Robert E Black, Sunil Sazawal
Brazilian pregnant and lactating women do not change their food intake to meet nutritional goals
Quenia dos Santos, Rosely Sichieri, Dirce ML Marchioni, Eliseu Verly Junior
The influence of women’s preferences and actual mode of delivery on post-traumatic stress symptoms following childbirth: a population-based, longitudinal study
Susan Garthus-Niegel, Tilmann von Soest, Cecilie Knoph, Tone Breines Simonsen, Leila Torgersen, Malin Eberhard-Gran
No consensus on gestational diabetes mellitus screening regimes in Sweden: pregnancy outcomes in relation to different screening regimes 2011 to 2012, a cross-sectional study
Maria Lindqvist, Margareta Persson, Marie Lindkvist, Ingrid Mogren
Advance distribution of misoprostol for prevention of postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) at home births in two districts of Liberia
Jeffrey Michael Smith, Saye Dahn Baawo, Marion Subah, Varwo Sirtor-Gbassie, Cuallau Jabbeh Howe, Gbenga Ishola, Bentoe Z Tehoungue, Vikas Dwivedi
Women’s perspectives of the fetal fibronectin testing process: a qualitative descriptive study
Wendy E Peterson, Ann E Sprague, Jessica Reszel, Mark Walker, Deshayne B Fell, Sherry L Perkins, Sandra I Dunn, Moya Johnson
Alcohol brief interventions in Scottish antenatal care: a qualitative study of midwives’ attitudes and practices
Lawrence Doi, Helen Cheyne, Ruth Jepson
Reshaping maternal services in Nigeria: any need for spiritual care?
Abiodun I Adanikin, Uche Onwudiegwu, Akinyemi A Akintayo
Study protocol: PoPE-Prediction of Preterm delivery by Electrohysterography
Hinke de Lau, Chiara Rabotti, Herman P Oosterbaan, Massimo Mischi, Guid S Oei
Experiencing challenges when implementing Active Management of Third Stage of Labor (AMTSL): a qualitative study with midwives in Accra, Ghana
Stina Mannheimer Schack, Amna Elyas, Gladys Brew, Karen Odberg Pettersson
Economic downturns and male cesarean deliveries: a time-series test of the economic stress hypothesis
Tim A Bruckner, Yvonne W Cheng, Amrita Singh, Aaron B Caughey
Differential levels of amino acid transporters System L and ASCT2, and the mTOR protein in placenta of preeclampsia and IUGR
Yukiyo Aiko, David J Askew, Satoshi Aramaki, Mai Myoga, Chiharu Tomonaga, Toru Hachisuga, Reiko Suga, Toshihiro Kawamoto, Mayumi Tsuji, Eiji Shibata
Women’s perception of pre-hospital labour duration and obstetrical outcomes; a prospective cohort study
Patricia A Janssen, Sandra Weissinger
The utility of circulating LHCGR as a predictor of Down's syndrome in early pregnancy
Anne E Chambers, Walter E Mills, Imma Mercadé, Francesca Crovetto, Fatima Crispi, Laia Rodriguez-Revenga Bodi, Michael Pugia, Aurea Mira, Luis Lasalvia, Subhasis Banerjee, Elena Casals, Eduard Gratacos
Using direct clinical observation to assess the quality of cesarean delivery in Afghanistan: an exploratory study
Cherrie Lynn Evans, Young Mi Kim, Khalid Yari, Nasratullah Ansari, Hannah Tappis
The association between timing of initiation of antenatal care and stillbirths: a retrospective cohort study of pregnant women in Cape Town, South Africa
Roxanne Beauclair, Greg Petro, Landon Myer
Reproductive desire in women with HIV infection in Spain, associated factors and motivations: a mixed-method study
Victoria Hernando, Belén Alejos, Débora Álvarez, Marta Montero, Mª Jesús Pérez-Elías, Jose Ramón Blanco, Mar Masiá, Jorge del Romero, Ignacio de los Santos, Isabel Rio, Alicia Llácer
Case–control study of risk factors for infectious mastitis in Spanish breastfeeding women
Pilar Mediano, Leónides Fernández, Juan M Rodríguez, María Marín
Associations of pre-pregnancy body mass index and gestational weight gain with pregnancy outcome and postpartum weight retention: a prospective observational cohort study
Margaretha Haugen, Anne Lise Brantsæter, Anna Winkvist, Lauren Lissner, Jan Alexander, Bente Oftedal, Per Magnus, Helle Margrete Meltzer
Mothers’ experience of their contact with their stillborn infant: An interpretative phenomenological analysis
Kirsty Ryninks, Cara Roberts-Collins, Kirstie McKenzie-McHarg, Antje Horsch
Congenital heart disease in men – birth characteristics and reproduction: a national cohort study
Kristina Kernell, Gunilla Sydsjö, Marie Bladh, Niels Erik Nielsen, Ann Josefsson
The CROWN initiative: journal editors invite researchers to develop core outcomes in women’s health
Khalid Khan, Peter O’Donovan
Documentation of guideline adherence in antenatal records across maternal weight categories: a chart review
Sarah D McDonald, Clea A Machold, Laura Marshall, Dawn Kingston
Ringing Up about Breastfeeding: a randomised controlled trial exploring early telephone peer support for breastfeeding (RUBY) – trial protocol
Della A Forster, Helen L McLachlan, Mary-Ann Davey, Lisa H Amir, Lisa Gold, Rhonda Small, Kate Mortensen, Anita M Moorhead, Heather A Grimes, Fiona E McLardie-Hore
Transfer to hospital in planned home births: a systematic review
Ellen Blix, Merethe Kumle, Hanne Kjærgaard, Pål Øian, Helena E Lindgren
Birthplace in New South Wales, Australia: an analysis of perinatal outcomes using routinely collected data
Caroline SE Homer, Charlene Thornton, Vanessa L Scarf, David A Ellwood, Jeremy JN Oats, Maralyn J Foureur, David Sibbritt, Helen L McLachlan, Della A Forster, Hannah G Dahlen
Seafood consumption and umbilical cord blood mercury concentrations in a multiethnic maternal and child health cohort
Reni Soon, Timothy D Dye, Nicholas V Ralston, Marla J Berry, Lynnae M Sauvage
Intelligent Structured Intermittent Auscultation (ISIA): evaluation of a decision-making framework for fetal heart monitoring of low-risk women
Robyn M Maude, Joan P Skinner, Maralyn J Foureur
Understanding delayed access to antenatal care: a qualitative interview study
Rosalind Haddrill, Georgina L Jones, Caroline A Mitchell, Dilly OC Anumba
Quality of prenatal care questionnaire: instrument development and testing
Maureen I Heaman, Wendy A Sword, Noori Akhtar-Danesh, Amanda Bradford, Suzanne Tough, Patricia A Janssen, David C Young, Dawn A Kingston, Eileen K Hutton, Michael E Helewa
Competence of birth attendants at providing emergency obstetric care under India’s JSY conditional cash transfer program for institutional delivery: an assessment using case vignettes in Madhya Pradesh province
Sarika Chaturvedi, Sourabh Upadhyay, Ayesha De Costa
An exploration of influences on women’s birthplace decision-making in New Zealand: a mixed methods prospective cohort within the Evaluating Maternity Units study
Celia Grigg, Sally K Tracy, Rea Daellenbach, Mary Kensington, Virginia Schmied
Characteristics of women who continue smoking during pregnancy: a cross-sectional study of pregnant women and new mothers in 15 European countries
Janne Smedberg, Angela Lupattelli, Ann-Charlotte Mårdby, Hedvig Nordeng
Development of the Migrant Friendly Maternity Care Questionnaire (MFMCQ) for migrants to Western societies: an international Delphi consensus process
Anita J Gagnon, Rebecca DeBruyn, Birgitta Essén, Mika Gissler, Maureen Heaman, Zeinab Jeambey, Dineke Korfker, Christine McCourt, Carolyn Roth, Jennifer Zeitlin, Rhonda Small
The association between labour variables and primiparous women’s experience of childbirth; a prospective cohort study
Hanna Ulfsdottir, Eva Nissen, Elsa-Lena Ryding, Doris Lund-Egloff, Eva Wiberg-Itzel
Maternal venous hemodynamics in gestational hypertension and preeclampsia
Wilfried Gyselaers, Kathleen Tomsin, Anneleen Staelens, Tinne Mesens, Jolien Oben, Geert Molenberghs
Determinants of cesarean delivery: a classification tree analysis
Elisa Stivanello, Paola Rucci, Jacopo Lenzi, Maria Pia Fantini
Responses to gestational weight management guidance: a thematic analysis of comments made by women in online parenting forums
Madelynne A Arden, Alexandra MS Duxbury, Hora Soltani
Clinical procedures and practices used in the perioperative treatment of female genital fistula during a prospective cohort study
Joseph K Ruminjo, Veronica Frajzyngier, Muhammad Bashir Abdullahi, Frank Asiimwe, Thierno Hamidou Barry, Abubakar Bello, Dantani Danladi, Sanda Oumarou Ganda, Sa’ad Idris, Maman Inoussa, Maura Lynch, Felicity Mussell, Dulal Chandra Podder, Abba Wali, Mark A Barone
Factors associated with health facility childbirth in districts of Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia: a population based survey
Selia Ng’anjo Phiri, Torvid Kiserud, Gunnar Kvåle, Jens Byskov, Bjørg Evjen-Olsen, Charles Michelo, Elizabeth Echoka, Knut Fylkesnes
The BRAzil MAGnesium (BRAMAG) trial: a randomized clinical trial of oral magnesium supplementation in pregnancy for the prevention of preterm birth and perinatal and maternal morbidity
Joao Guilherme B Alves, Carla Adriane Fonseca Leal de Araújo, Isabelle E A Pontes, Angélica C Guimarães, Joel G Ray
Unintended pregnancy and subsequent use of modern contraceptive among slum and non-slum women in Nairobi, Kenya
Jean Christophe Fotso, Chimaraoke Izugbara, Teresa Saliku, Rhoune Ochako
Analyzing support of postnatal transition in term infants after c-section
Dimitrios Konstantelos, Sascha Ifflaender, Jürgen Dinger, Wolfram Burkhardt, Mario Rüdiger
Pregnancy, prison and perinatal outcomes in New South Wales, Australia: a retrospective cohort study using linked health data
Jane R Walker, Lisa Hilder, Michael H Levy, Elizabeth A Sullivan
On speaking terms: a Delphi study on shared decision-making in maternity care
Marianne J Nieuwenhuijze, Irene Korstjens, Ank de Jonge, Raymond de Vries, Antoine Lagro-Janssen
Screening for hemoglobin Bart’s disease among fetuses at risk at mid-pregnancy using the fetal cardiac diameter to biparietal diameter ratio
Nopamas Thathan, Kuntharee Traisrisilp, Suchaya Luewan, Kasemsri Srisupundit, Fuanglada Tongprasert, Theera Tongsong
Diverse definitions of prolonged labour and its consequences with sometimes subsequent inappropriate treatment
Astrid Nystedt, Ingegerd Hildingsson
A longitudinal study of women’s memories of their childbirth experiences at five years postpartum
Kenji Takehara, Makiko Noguchi, Takuya Shimane, Chizuru Misago
The Belgian Diabetes in Pregnancy Study (BEDIP-N), a multi-centric prospective cohort study on screening for diabetes in pregnancy and gestational diabetes: methodology and design
Katrien Benhalima, Paul Van Crombrugge, Johan Verhaeghe, Sofie Vandeginste, Hilde Verlaenen, Chris Vercammen, Els Dufraimont, Christophe De Block, Yves Jacquemyn, Farah Mekahli, Katrien De Clippel, Roland Devlieger, Chantal Mathieu
Eating for 1, Healthy and Active for 2; feasibility of delivering novel, compact training for midwives to build knowledge and confidence in giving nutrition, physical activity and weight management advice during pregnancy
Andrea Basu, Lynne Kennedy, Karen Tocque, Sharn Jones
Sociocultural influences on newborn health in the first 6 weeks of life: qualitative study in a fishing village in Karachi, Pakistan
Shahirose Premji, Shaneela Khowaja, Salima Meherali, Rachelle Forgeron
“A patchwork of services” – caring for women who sustain severe perineal trauma in New South Wales – from the perspective of women and midwives
Holly S Priddis, Virginia Schmied, Christine Kettle, Anne Sneddon, Hannah G Dahlen
The effect of mother’s age and other related factors on neonatal survival associated with first and second birth in rural, Tanzania: evidence from Ifakara health and demographic surveillance system in rural Tanzania
Majige Selemani, Mathew A Mwanyangala, Sigilbert Mrema, Amri Shamte, Dan Kajungu, Abdallah Mkopi, Michael Johnson Mahande, Rose Nathan
A root-cause analysis of maternal deaths in Botswana: towards developing a culture of patient safety and quality improvement
Farai D Madzimbamuto, Sunanda C Ray, Keitshokile D Mogobe, Doreen Ramogola-Masire, Raina Phillips, Miriam Haverkamp, Mosidi Mokotedi, Mpho Motana
Preterm subtypes by immigrants’ length of residence in Norway: a population-based study
Ingvil K Sørbye, Anne K Daltveit, Johanne Sundby, Siri Vangen
Prostaglandin pathway gene expression in human placenta, amnion and choriodecidua is differentially affected by preterm and term labour and by uterine inflammation
Robert J Phillips, Michel A Fortier, Andrés López Bernal
Secular trends in pregnancy weight gain in German women and their influences on foetal outcome: a hospital-based study
Nina Ferrari, Peter Mallmann, Konrad Brockmeier, Heiko Klaus Strüder, Christine Graf
Long working hours and pregnancy complications: women physicians survey in Japan
Masumi Takeuchi, Mahbubur Rahman, Aya Ishiguro, Kyoko Nomura
Maternal and health care workers’ perceptions of the effects of exclusive breastfeeding by HIV positive mothers on maternal and infant health in Blantyre, Malawi
Ursula K Kafulafula, Mary K Hutchinson, Susan Gennaro, Sally Guttmacher
Maternal obesity and its relation with the cesarean section: A hospital based cross sectional study in Iraq
Waqar Al-Kubaisy, Mazin Al-Rubaey, Redhwan A Al-Naggar, Ban Karim, Nor Aini Mohd Noor
Prenatal screening for congenital anomalies: exploring midwives’ perceptions of counseling clients with religious backgrounds
Janneke T Gitsels–van der Wal, Judith Manniën, Lisanne A Gitsels, Hans S Reinders, Pieternel S Verhoeven, Mohammed M Ghaly, Trudy Klomp, Eileen K Hutton
Patterns of psychotropic medicine use in pregnancy in the United States from 2006 to 2011 among women with private insurance
Gillian E Hanley, Barbara Mintzes
Factors influencing women’s decisions to drink alcohol during pregnancy: findings of a qualitative study with implications for health communication
Carla S Meurk, Alex Broom, Jon Adams, Wayne Hall, Jayne Lucke
Obesity and pregnancy: a transversal study from a low-risk maternity
Ana Carolina S Calderon, Silvana M Quintana, Alessandra C Marcolin, Aderson T Berezowski, Luiz Gustavo O Brito, Geraldo Duarte, Ricardo C Cavalli
Retrospective analysis of the diagnostic yield of newborn drug testing
Kelly E Wood, Lori L Sinclair, Carolyn D Rysgaard, Frederick G Strathmann, Gwendolyn A McMillin, Matthew D Krasowski
EXIT procedure in twin pregnancy: a series of three cases from a single center
Lutgardo García-Díaz, Juan Carlos de Agustín, Antonio Ontanilla, Maria Luisa Marenco, Antonio Pavón, Antonio Losada, Guillermo Antiñolo
Cost-effectiveness of strategies to improve the utilization and provision of maternal and newborn health care in low-income and lower-middle-income countries: a systematic review
Lindsay Mangham-Jefferies, Catherine Pitt, Simon Cousens, Anne Mills, Joanna Schellenberg
Barriers, motivators and facilitators related to prenatal care utilization among inner-city women in Winnipeg, Canada: a case–control study
Maureen I Heaman, Michael Moffatt, Lawrence Elliott, Wendy Sword, Michael E Helewa, Heather Morris, Patricia Gregory, Lynda Tjaden, Catherine Cook
Predictors of labor abnormalities in university hospital: unmatched case control study
Wayu Abraham, Yifru Berhan
Midwives’ lived experience of a birth where the woman suffers an obstetric anal sphincter injury - a phenomenological study
Malin Edqvist, Helena Lindgren, Ingela Lundgren
Comparison of medical issues in antenatal and perinatal periods in early youth, adolescent, and young adult mothers in Taiwan: a 10-year nationwide study
Chun-Che Huang, Yung-Chieh Lin, Yu-Tung Huang, Kuang-Hua Huang
Adequacy of antenatal care and its relationship with low birth weight in Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil: a case-control study
Cátia Regina Branco da Fonseca, Maria Wany Louzada Strufaldi, Lídia Raquel de Carvalho, Rosana Fiorini Puccini
A qualitative study on barriers to utilisation of institutional delivery services in Moroto and Napak districts, Uganda: implications for programming
Calistus Wilunda, Gianluca Quaglio, Giovanni Putoto, Peter Lochoro, Giovanni Dall’Oglio, Fabio Manenti, Andrea Atzori, Rose Miligan Lochiam, Risa Takahashi, Aline Mukundwa, Koyejo Oyerinde
Access and utilisation of maternity care for disabled women who experience domestic abuse: a systematic review
Jenna P Breckenridge, John Devaney, Thilo Kroll, Anne Lazenbatt, Julie Taylor, Caroline Bradbury-Jones
Evaluation of non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) for aneuploidy in an NHS setting: a reliable accurate prenatal non-invasive diagnosis (RAPID) protocol
Melissa Hill, David Wright, Rebecca Daley, Celine Lewis, Fiona McKay, Sarah Mason, Nicholas Lench, Abigail Howarth, Christopher Boustred, Kitty Lo, Vincent Plagnol, Kevin Spencer, Jane Fisher, Mark Kroese, Stephen Morris, Lyn S Chitty
Maternal near-miss and death and their association with caesarean section complications: a cross-sectional study at a university hospital and a regional hospital in Tanzania
Helena Litorp, Hussein L Kidanto, Mattias Rööst, Muzdalifat Abeid, Lennarth Nyström, Birgitta Essén
‘At the right time, in the right way, with the right resources’: perceptions of the quality of care provided during childbirth in Malawi
Elizabeth O’Donnell, Bettina Utz, Diana Khonje, Nynke van den Broek
Impact of mode of delivery on the birth experience in first-time mothers: a qualitative study
Marie-Julia Guittier, Christine Cedraschi, Nasir Jamei, Michel Boulvain, Francis Guillemin
Determinants of unintended pregnancies in rural Ghana
Sebastian Eliason, Frank Baiden, Barbara A Yankey, Kofi Awusabo–Asare
Mode of delivery and postpartum HIV-1 disease progression and mortality in a Kenyan cohort
Jennifer A Unger, Barbra A Richardson, Phelgona A Otieno, Carey Farquhar, Dalton Wamalwa, Grace C John-Stewart
Inadequate prenatal care utilization and associated factors in São Luís, Brazil
Ariane Cristina Ferreira Bernardes, Raimundo Antonio da Silva, Liberata Campos Coimbra, Maria Teresa Seabra Soares de Britto Alves, Rejane Christine de Sousa Queiroz, Rosângela Fernandes Lucena Batista, Heloisa Bettiol, Marco Antônio Barbieri, Antônio Augusto Moura da Silva
Design and outline of the Healthy Pregnancy 4 All study
Semiha Denktaş, Jashvant Poeran, Sabine F van Voorst, Amber A Vos, Lieke C de Jong-Potjer, Adja JM Waelput, Erwin Birnie, Gouke J Bonsel, Eric AP Steegers
Elastography in predicting preterm delivery in asymptomatic, low-risk women: a prospective observational study
Slawomir Wozniak, Piotr Czuczwar, Piotr Szkodziak, Pawel Milart, Ewa Wozniakowska, Tomasz Paszkowski
Determinants of cessation of exclusive breastfeeding in Ankesha Guagusa Woreda, Awi Zone, Northwest Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
Tebikew Yeneabat, Tefera Belachew, Muluneh Haile
Mental health in women experiencing preterm birth
Aud R Misund, Per Nerdrum, Trond H Diseth
Factors affecting the uptake of prenatal screening tests for congenital anomalies; a multicentre prospective cohort study
Janneke T Gitsels - van der Wal, Pieternel S Verhoeven, Judith Manniën, Linda Martin, Hans S Reinders, Evelien Spelten, Eileen K Hutton
Determinants of health facility utilization for childbirth in rural western Kenya: cross-sectional study
Yoshito Kawakatsu, Tomohiko Sugishita, Kennedy Oruenjo, Steve Wakhule, Kennedy Kibosia, Eric Were, Sumihisa Honda
Perceptions of, attitudes towards and barriers to male involvement in newborn care in rural Ghana, West Africa: a qualitative analysis
Mari Dumbaugh, Charlotte Tawiah-Agyemang, Alexander Manu, Guus HA ten Asbroek, Betty Kirkwood, Zelee Hill
The influence of eating disorders on mothers’ sensitivity and adaptation during feeding: a longitudinal observational study
Claire Squires, Christophe Lalanne, Nasha Murday, Vassiliki Simoglou, Laurence Vaivre-Douret
Prevalence of childbirth fear in an Australian sample of pregnant women
Jocelyn Toohill, Jennifer Fenwick, Jenny Gamble, Debra K Creedy
An exploratory spatial analysis of geographical inequalities of birth intervals among young women in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): a cross-sectional study
Tobias F Chirwa, Jocelyn N Mantempa, Felly Lukumu Kinziunga, Joseph D Kandala, Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala
Thermal care for newborn babies in rural southern Tanzania: a mixed-method study of barriers, facilitators and potential for behaviour change
Donat Shamba, Joanna Schellenberg, Zoe Jane-Lara Hildon, Irene Mashasi, Suzanne Penfold, Marcel Tanner, Tanya Marchant, Zelee Hill
Adherence to evidence based care practices for childbirth before and after a quality improvement intervention in health facilities of Rajasthan, India
Kirti Iyengar, Motilal Jain, Sunil Thomas, Kalpana Dashora, William Liu, Paramsukh Saini, Rajesh Dattatreya, Indrani Parker, Sharad Iyengar
The (cost) effectiveness of an online intervention for pregnant women with affective symptoms: protocol of a randomised controlled trial
Hanna M Heller, Annemieke van Straten, Christianne JM de Groot, Adriaan Honig
Calibrated delivery drape versus indirect gravimetric technique for the measurement of blood loss after delivery: a randomized trial
Shubha Ambardekar, Tara Shochet, Hillary Bracken, Kurus Coyaji, Beverly Winikoff
The role of VEGF-A165b in trophoblast survival
Victoria L Bills, Maryam Hamdollah-Zadeh, Peter W Soothill, Steven J Harper, David O Bates
Audit-identified avoidable factors in maternal and perinatal deaths in low resource settings: a systematic review
Hasan S Merali, Stuart Lipsitz, Nathanael Hevelone, Atul A Gawande, Angela Lashoher, Priya Agrawal, Jonathan Spector
Barriers to and incentives for achieving partograph use in obstetric practice in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review
Elizabeth Ollerhead, David Osrin
Cesarean section in Shanghai: women’s or healthcare provider’s preferences?
Wei Deng, Reija Klemetti, Qian Long, Zhuochun Wu, Chenggang Duan, Wei-Hong Zhang, Carine Ronsmans, Yu Zhang, Elina Hemminki
Birth preparedness and complication readiness among women of child bearing age group in Goba woreda, Oromia region, Ethiopia
Desalegn Markos, Daniel Bogale
Maternal perception of decreased fetal movements from maternal and fetal perspectives, a cohort study
Mahdi Sheikh, Sedigheh Hantoushzadeh, Mamak Shariat
The effects of vitamin C supplementation on pre-eclampsia in Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda: a randomized placebo controlled clinical trial
Paul Kiondo, Gakenia Wamuyu-Maina, Julius Wandabwa, Gabriel S Bimenya, Nazarius Mbona Tumwesigye, Pius Okong
Timing and factors associated with first antenatal care booking among pregnant mothers in Gondar Town; North West Ethiopia
Temesgen Worku Gudayu, Solomon Meseret Woldeyohannes, Abdella Amano Abdo
Fetal response to maternal hunger and satiation – novel finding from a qualitative descriptive study of maternal perception of fetal movements
Billie Bradford, Robyn Maude
Assessing predictors of delayed antenatal care visits in Rwanda: a secondary analysis of Rwanda demographic and health survey 2010
Anatole Manzi, Fabien Munyaneza, Francisca Mujawase, Leonidas Banamwana, Felix Sayinzoga, Dana R Thomson, Joseph Ntaganira, Bethany L Hedt-Gauthier
Magnitude and trends of inequalities in antenatal care and delivery under skilled care among different socio-demographic groups in Ghana from 1988 – 2008
Benedict O Asamoah, Anette Agardh, Karen Odberg Pettersson, Per-Olof Östergren
Antenatal health promotion via short message service at a Midwife Obstetrics Unit in South Africa: a mixed methods study
Yan Kwan Lau, Tali Cassidy, Damian Hacking, Kirsty Brittain, Hanne Jensen Haricharan, Marion Heap
The effects of spinal anaesthesia for elective caesarean section on uterine and umbilical arterial pulsatility indexes in normotensive and chronic hypertensive pregnant women: a prospective, longitudinal study
Luís Guedes-Martins, Helena Graça, Joaquim P Saraiva, Luísa Guedes, Rita Gaio, Ana S Cerdeira, Filipe Macedo, Henrique Almeida
Long-term changes in glucose metabolism after gestational diabetes: a double cohort study
Hanna Huopio, Heidi Hakkarainen, Mirja Pääkkönen, Teemu Kuulasmaa, Raimo Voutilainen, Seppo Heinonen, Henna Cederberg
Prevalence and evolution of intimate partner violence before and during pregnancy: a cross-sectional study
An-Sofie Van Parys, Ellen Deschepper, Kristien Michielsen, Marleen Temmerman, Hans Verstraelen
Maternal quality and safety outcomes for Asians and Pacific Islanders in Hawai‘i: an observational study from five years of statewide data
Tetine Sentell, Ann Chang, Yongjun Cheng, Jill Miyamura
Women’s empowerment and male involvement in antenatal care: analyses of Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) in selected African countries
Larissa Jennings, Muzi Na, Megan Cherewick, Michelle Hindin, Britta Mullany, Saifuddin Ahmed
Seaweed consumption and prevalence of depressive symptoms during pregnancy in Japan: Baseline data from the Kyushu Okinawa Maternal and Child Health Study
Yoshihiro Miyake, Keiko Tanaka, Hitomi Okubo, Satoshi Sasaki, Masashi Arakawa
Assessment of facility readiness and provider preparedness for dealing with postpartum haemorrhage and pre-eclampsia/eclampsia in public and private health facilities of northern Karnataka, India: a cross-sectional study
Krishnamurthy Jayanna, Prem Mony, Ramesh BM, Annamma Thomas, Ajay Gaikwad, Mohan HL, James F Blanchard, Stephen Moses, Lisa Avery
B7 costimulation and intracellular indoleamine-2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) expression in peripheral blood of healthy pregnant and non-pregnant women
Enikő Grozdics, László Berta, Anna Bajnok, Gábor Veres, István Ilisz, Péter Klivényi, János Rigó Jr, László Vécsei, Tivadar Tulassay, Gergely Toldi
Stillbirths and very low Apgar scores among vaginal births in a tertiary hospital in Ghana: a retrospective cross-sectional analysis
Edward Tieru Dassah, Alexander Tawiah Odoi, Baafuor Kofi Opoku
Prediction of preeclampsia and induced delivery at <34 weeks gestation by sFLT-1 and PlGF in patients with abnormal midtrimester uterine Doppler velocimetry: a prospective cohort analysis
Johannes Stubert, Stefanie Ullmann, Michael Bolz, Thomas Külz, Max Dieterich, Dagmar-Ulrike Richter, Toralf Reimer
Struggling to survive for the sake of the unborn baby: a grounded theory model of exposure to intimate partner violence during pregnancy
Hafrún Finnbogadóttir, Anna-Karin Dykes, Christine Wann-Hansson
Early pregnancy body mass index and spontaneous preterm birth in Northwest Russia: a registry-based study
Ekaterina E Sharashova, Erik E Anda, Andrej M Grjibovski
Factors associated with non-use of antenatal iron and folic acid supplements among Pakistani women: a cross sectional household survey
Yasir Bin Nisar, Michael J Dibley, Ali Mohammad Mir
Low birth weight at term and the presence of fine particulate matter and carbon monoxide in the Brazilian Amazon: a population-based retrospective cohort study
Ageo Mário Cândido da Silva, Gisele Pedroso Moi, Inês Echenique Mattos, Sandra de Souza Hacon
Seasonality of birth outcomes in rural Sarlahi District, Nepal: a population-based prospective cohort
Michelle M Hughes, Joanne Katz, Luke C Mullany, Subarna K Khatry, Steven C LeClerq, Gary L Darmstadt, James M Tielsch
The HAPPY study (Holistic Approach to Pregnancy and the first Postpartum Year): design of a large prospective cohort study
Sophie EM Truijens, Margreet Meems, Simone MI Kuppens, Maarten AC Broeren, Karin CAM Nabbe, Hennie A Wijnen, S Guid Oei, Maarten JM van Son, Victor JM Pop
Indirect cost of maternal deaths in the WHO African Region in 2010
Joses Muthuri Kirigia, Germano Mwige Mwabu, Juliet Nabyonga Orem, Rosenabi Deborah Karimi Muthuri
The association between attendance of midwives and workload of midwives with the mode of birth: secondary analyses in the German healthcare system
Nina Knape, Herbert Mayer, Wilfried Schnepp, Friederike zu Sayn-Wittgenstein
Socioeconomic disparities in prepregnancy BMI and impact on maternal and neonatal outcomes and postpartum weight retention: the EFHL longitudinal birth cohort study
Shu-Kay Ng, Cate M Cameron, Andrew P Hills, Roderick J McClure, Paul A Scuffham
Evaluation of the impact of universal testing for gestational diabetes mellitus on maternal and neonatal health outcomes: a retrospective analysis
Diane Farrar, Lesley Fairley, John Wright, Derek Tuffnell, Donald Whitelaw, Debbie A Lawlor
Study protocol: Asking QUestions about Alcohol in pregnancy (AQUA): a longitudinal cohort study of fetal effects of low to moderate alcohol exposure
Evelyne Muggli, Colleen O’Leary, Della Forster, Peter Anderson, Sharon Lewis, Cate Nagle, Jeffrey M Craig, Susan Donath, Elizabeth Elliott, Jane Halliday
"Wrapping myself in cotton wool": Australian women's experience of being diagnosed with vasa praevia
Nasrin Javid, Elizabeth A Sullivan, Lesley E Halliday, Greg Duncombe, Caroline SE Homer
‘Born before arrival’: user and provider perspectives on health facility childbirths in Kapiri Mposhi district, Zambia
Selia Ng’anjo Phiri, Knut Fylkesnes, Ana Lorena Ruano, Karen Marie Moland
Maternal mortality at muhimbili national hospital in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania in the year 2011
Andrea B Pembe, Chetto Paulo, Brenda S D’mello, Jos van Roosmalen
Demographics, clinical characteristics and neonatal outcomes in a rural Ugandan NICU
Anna Hedstrom, Tove Ryman, Christine Otai, James Nyonyintono, Ryan M McAdams, Deborah Lester, Maneesh Batra
Utilization of PMTCT services and associated factors among pregnant women attending antenatal clinics in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Wakgari Deressa, Assefa Seme, Anteneh Asefa, Getachew Teshome, Fikre Enqusellassie
Mortality and major morbidities in very preterm infants born from assisted conception or naturally conceived: results of the area-based ACTION study
Carlo Corchia, Monica Da Frè, Domenico Di Lallo, Luigi Gagliardi, Franco Macagno, Virgilio Carnielli, Silvana Miniaci, Marina Cuttini
Birth attendance and magnitude of obstetric complications in Western Kenya: a retrospective case–control study
Wilson N Liambila, Shiphrah N Kuria
The community-based delivery of an innovative neonatal kit to save newborn lives in rural Pakistan: design of a cluster randomized trial
Ali Turab, Lisa G Pell, Diego G Bassani, Sajid Soofi, Shabina Ariff, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Shaun K Morris
Adult physical, sexual, and emotional abuse and postpartum depression, a population based, prospective study of 53,065 women in the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study
Marie Flem Sørbø, Hilde Grimstad, Johan Håkon Bjørngaard, Mirjam Lukasse, Berit Schei
Systematic review of the effect of individual and combined nutrition and exercise interventions on weight, adiposity and metabolic outcomes after delivery: evidence for developing behavioral guidelines for post-partum weight control
Alexander Arkin Berger, Rachel Peragallo-Urrutia, Wanda K Nicholson
Medication exposure during pregnancy: a pilot pharmacovigilance system using health and demographic surveillance platform
Dominic Mosha, Festo Mazuguni, Sigilbert Mrema, Salim Abdulla, Blaise Genton
Perceptions and actions of healthcare professionals regarding the mother-child relationship with premature babies in an intermediate neonatal intensive care unit: a qualitative study
Camila Fleury, Mary A Parpinelli, Maria Y Makuch
Varying gestational age patterns in cesarean delivery: an international comparison
Marie Delnord, Béatrice Blondel, Nicolas Drewniak, Kari Klungsøyr, Francisco Bolumar, Ashna Mohangoo, Mika Gissler, Katarzyna Szamotulska, Nicholas Lack, Jan Nijhuis, Petr Velebil, Luule Sakkeus, James Chalmers, Jennifer Zeitlin
Determinants of prescribed drug use among pregnant women in Bahir Dar city administration, Northwest Ethiopia: a cross sectional study
Chanie Admasie, Belaynew Wasie, Gedefaw Abeje
Is the mothers’ country of birth associated with the sex of their offspring in England and Wales from 2007 to 2011?
Cameron Smith, Andrew Fogarty
Increased risk of severe congenital heart defects in offspring exposed to selective serotonin-reuptake inhibitors in early pregnancy – an epidemiological study using validated EUROCAT data
Tanja Majbrit Knudsen, Anne Vinkel Hansen, Ester Garne, Anne-Marie Nybo Andersen
Prevalence and determinants of unintended childbirth in Ethiopia
Yibeltal Tebekaw, Bezuhan Aemro, Charles Teller
Addressing perinatal depression in a group of underserved urban women: a focus group study
Nancy C Raymond, Rebekah J Pratt, Amy Godecker, Patricia A Harrison, Helen Kim, Jesse Kuendig, Jennifer M O’Brien
Sleep duration, vital exhaustion, and odds of spontaneous preterm birth: a case–control study
Sandhya Kajeepeta, Sixto E Sanchez, Bizu Gelaye, Chunfang Qiu, Yasmin V Barrios, Daniel A Enquobahrie, Michelle A Williams
Female migrants, family members and community socio-demographic characteristics influence facility delivery in Rufiji, Tanzania
Francis Levira, Lauren Gaydosh, Astha Ramaiya
Postnatal growth outcomes and influence of maternal gestational weight gain: a prospective cohort study in rural Vietnam
Sarah Hanieh, Tran T Ha, Julie A Simpson, Tran T Thuy, Nguyen C Khuong, Dang D Thoang, Thach D Tran, Tran Tuan, Jane Fisher, Beverley-Ann Biggs
“An on-going individual adjustment”: a qualitative study of midwives’ experiences counselling pregnant women on physical activity in Sweden
Maria Lindqvist, Ingrid Mogren, Eva Eurenius, Kristina Edvardsson, Margareta Persson
Ethnic differences translate to inadequacy of high-risk screening for gestational diabetes mellitus in an Asian population: a cohort study
Yap-Seng Chong, Shirong Cai, Harvard Lin, Shu E Soh, Yung-Seng Lee, Melvin Khee-Shing Leow, Yiong-Huak Chan, Li Chen, Joanna D Holbrook, Kok-Hian Tan, Victor Samuel Rajadurai, George Seow-Heong Yeo, Michael S Kramer, Seang-Mei Saw, Peter D Gluckman, Keith M Godfrey, Kenneth Kwek
Antenatal mindfulness intervention to reduce depression, anxiety and stress: a pilot randomised controlled trial of the MindBabyBody program in an Australian tertiary maternity hospital
Hannah Woolhouse, Kristine Mercuri, Fiona Judd, Stephanie J Brown
Cross sectional study in China: fetal gender has adverse perinatal outcomes in mainland China
Lei Hou, Xin Wang, Guanghui Li, Liying Zou, Yi Chen, Weiyuan Zhang
What women want: qualitative analysis of consumer evaluations of maternity care in Queensland, Australia
Loretta C McKinnon, Samantha J Prosser, Yvette D Miller
Prediction of uterine dehiscence using ultrasonographic parameters of cesarean section scar in the nonpregnant uterus: a prospective observational study
Michal Pomorski, Tomasz Fuchs, Mariusz Zimmer
Care-related factors associated with antepartal diagnosis of intrauterine growth restriction: a case–control study
Sinja Alexandra Ernst, Anna Reeske, Jacob Spallek, Knud Petersen, Tilman Brand, Hajo Zeeb
Empowerment and use of antenatal care among women in Ghana: a cross-sectional study
Heather Sipsma, Angela Ofori-Atta, Maureen Canavan, Christopher Udry, Elizabeth Bradley
Lessons learned from the Philadelphia Collaborative Preterm Prevention Project: the prevalence of risk factors and program participation rates among women in the intervention group
David A Webb, Leny Mathew, Jennifer F Culhane
Reported dietary intake in early pregnant compared to non-pregnant women – a cross-sectional study
Anette Lundqvist, Ingegerd Johansson, AnnaLena Wennberg, Johan Hultdin, Ulf Högberg, Katarina Hamberg, Herbert Sandström
Folic acid supplementation, dietary folate intake during pregnancy and risk for spontaneous preterm delivery: a prospective observational cohort study
Verena Sengpiel, Jonas Bacelis, Ronny Myhre, Solveig Myking, Aase Serine Devold Pay, Margaretha Haugen, Anne-Lise Brantsæter, Helle Margrete Meltzer, Roy Miodini Nilsen, Per Magnus, Stein Emil Vollset, Staffan Nilsson, Bo Jacobsson
Midwives' knowledge, attitudes and practice about alcohol exposure and the risk of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
Janet M Payne, Rochelle E Watkins, Heather M Jones, Tracy Reibel, Raewyn Mutch, Amanda Wilkins, Julie Whitlock, Carol Bower
Can a text message a week improve breastfeeding?
Danielle Gallegos, Rebekah Russell-Bennett, Josephine Previte, Joy Parkinson
Accessibility and potency of uterotonic drugs purchased by simulated clients in four districts in India
Cynthia Stanton, Deepak Nitya Nand, Alissa Koski, Ellie Mirzabagi, Steve Brooke, Breanne Grady, Luke C Mullany
Improvements in newborn care and newborn resuscitation following a quality improvement program at scale: results from a before and after study in Tanzania
Christina Lulu Makene, Marya Plotkin, Sheena Currie, Dunstan Bishanga, Patience Ugwi, Henry Louis, Kiholeth Winani, Brett D Nelson
Changes in thrombin generation and D-dimer concentrations in women injecting enoxaparin during pregnancy and the puerperium
Jignesh P Patel, Raj K Patel, Lara N Roberts, Michael S Marsh, Bruce Green, J Graham Davies, Roopen Arya
Investigating attachment, caregiving, and mental health: a model of maternal-fetal relationships
Judi Walsh, Erica G Hepper, Benjamin J Marshall
Paternal race/ethnicity and very low birth weight
Kimberly G Fulda, Anita K Kurian, Elizabeth Balyakina, Micky M Moerbe
Geographic variation in cesarean delivery in the United States by payer
Rachel Mosher Henke, Lauren M Wier, William D Marder, Bernard S Friedman, Herbert S Wong
Team training in obstetric and neonatal emergencies using highly realistic simulation in Mexico: impact on process indicators
Dilys Walker, Susanna Cohen, Jimena Fritz, Marisela Olvera, Hector Lamadrid-Figueroa, Jessica Greenberg Cowan, Dolores Gonzalez Hernandez, Julia C Dettinger, Jenifer O Fahey
Seeking evidence to support efforts to increase use of antenatal care: a cross-sectional study in two states of Nigeria
Khalid Omer, Nshadi John Afi, Moh'd Chadi Baba, Maijiddah Adamu, Sani Abubakar Malami, Angela Oyo-Ita, Anne Cockcroft, Neil Andersson
Fertility desire and associated factors among people living with HIV attending antiretroviral therapy clinic in Ethiopia
Dereje Bayissa Demissie, Bosena Tebeje, Temamen Tesfaye
Serum calcium and magnesium levels in women presenting with pre-eclampsia and pregnancy-induced hypertension: a case–control study in the Cape Coast metropolis, Ghana
Richard Kobina Dadzie Ephraim, Derick Nii Mensah Osakunor, Seth Wiredu Denkyira, Henrietta Eshun, Samuel Amoah, Enoch Odame Anto
A cohort study of gestational diabetes mellitus and complimentary qualitative research: background, aims and design
Vijayam Balaji, Madhuri S Balaji, Manjula Datta, Rekha Rajendran, Karoline Kragelund Nielsen, Rohini Radhakrishnan, Anil Kapur, Veerasamy Seshiah
Feasibility and acceptability of a novel, computerized screening and brief intervention (SBI) for alcohol and sweetened beverage use in pregnancy
Madhabika B Nayak, Rachael A Korcha, Lee A Kaskustas, Lyndsay A Avalos
Resident obstetricians' awareness of the oral health component in management of nausea and vomiting in pregnancy
Joan Enabulele, Louis Ibhawoh
Maternal health and pregnancy outcomes among women of refugee background from African countries: a retrospective, observational study in Australia
Melanie Gibson-Helm, Helena Teede, Andrew Block, Michelle Knight, Christine East, Euan M Wallace, Jacqueline Boyle
Factors associated with institutional delivery in Ghana: the role of decision-making autonomy and community norms
Ilene S Speizer, William T Story, Kavita Singh
A case-control study of risk factors for fetal and early neonatal deaths in a tertiary hospital in Kenya
Faith Yego, Catherine D’Este, Julie Byles, Paul Nyongesa, Jennifer Stewart Williams
Physical activity and depressive symptoms after stillbirth: informing future interventions
Jennifer Huberty, Jenn A Leiferman, Katherine J Gold, Lacey Rowedder, Joanne Cacciatore, Darya Bonds McClain
Increased placental expression of cannabinoid receptor 1 in preeclampsia: an observational study
Gergely Fügedi, Miklós Molnár, János Rigó, Júlia Schönléber, Ilona Kovalszky, Attila Molvarec
Perceptions and experiences of community members on caring for preterm newborns in rural Mangochi, Malawi: a qualitative study
Austrida Gondwe, Alister C Munthali, Per Ashorn, Ulla Ashorn
The association between maternal blood pressures and offspring size at birth in Southeast Asian women
Wai-Yee Lim, Yung-Seng Lee, Chuen-Seng Tan, Kenneth Kwek, Yap-Seng Chong, Peter D Gluckman, Keith M Godfrey, Seang-Mei Saw, An Pan
Food choices and practices during pregnancy of immigrant women with high-risk pregnancies in Canada: a pilot study
Gina MA Higginbottom, Helen Vallianatos, Joan Forgeron, Donna Gibbons, Fabiana Mamede, Rubina Barolia
Linkage to HIV care, postpartum depression, and HIV-related stigma in newly diagnosed pregnant women living with HIV in Kenya: a longitudinal observational study
Bulent Turan, Kristi L Stringer, Maricianah Onono, Elizabeth A Bukusi, Sheri D Weiser, Craig R Cohen, Janet M Turan
A quantitative exploration of the sociocultural context of teenage pregnancy in Sri Lanka
Neelamani Rajapaksa-Hewageegana, Sarah Maria Salway, Hilary Piercy, Sarath Samarage
Impact of singlehood during pregnancy on dietary intake and birth outcomes- a study in the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study
Jorunn Farbu, Margaretha Haugen, Helle Margrete Meltzer, Anne Lise Brantsæter
Postpartum haemorrhage in midwifery care in the Netherlands: validation of quality indicators for midwifery guidelines
Marrit Smit, Kar-Li L Chan, Johanna M Middeldorp, Jos van Roosmalen
Ethnic variation in stillbirth risk and the role of maternal obesity: analysis of routine data from a London maternity unit
Nicole Penn, Eugene Oteng-Ntim, Laura L Oakley, Pat Doyle
Risk factors associated with preterm birth among singletons following assisted reproductive technology in Australia 2007–2009–a population-based retrospective study
Xu K Xu, Yueping A Wang, Zhuoyang Li, Kei Lui, Elizabeth A Sullivan
Maternal near miss and maternal deaths in Mozambique: a cross-sectional, region-wide study of 635 consecutive cases assisted in health facilities of Maputo province
Ernestina David, Fernanda Machungo, Giovanni Zanconato, Elena Cavaliere, Sidonia Fiosse, Celeste Sululu, Benvinda Chiluvane, Staffan Bergström
Appropriate provision of anti-D prophylaxis to RhD negative pregnant women: a scoping review
Trina M Fyfe, M Jane Ritchey, Christorina Taruc, Daniel Crompton, Brian Galliford, Rose Perrin
Is postpartum depression a homogenous disorder: time of onset, severity, symptoms and hopelessness in relation to the course of depression
Pirjo Kettunen, Eeva Koistinen, Jukka Hintikka
Patterns of social inequalities across pregnancy and birth outcomes: a comparison of individual and neighborhood socioeconomic measures
Nihaya Daoud, Patricia O’Campo, Anita Minh, Marcelo L Urquia, Susie Dzakpasu, Maureen Heaman, Janusz Kaczorowski, Cheryl Levitt, Janet Smylie, Beverley Chalmers
Impact of excess gestational and post-weaning energy intake on vascular function of swine offspring
Pardis Taheripour, Mark A DeFord, Emily J Arentson-Lantz, Shawn S Donkin, Kolapo M Ajuwon, Sean C Newcomer
Evaluation of pregnancy and delivery in 13 women who underwent resection of a sacrococcygeal teratoma during early childhood
Marijke EB Kremer, Margot M Koeneman, Joep PM Derikx, Audrey Coumans, Robertine van Baren, Hugo A Heij, Marc HWA Wijnen, René MH Wijnen, David C van der Zee, Ernest LW van Heurn
Conditional cash transfer schemes in Nigeria: potential gains for maternal and child health service uptake in a national pilot programme
Ugo Okoli, Laura Morris, Adetokunbo Oshin, Muhammad A Pate, Chidimma Aigbe, Ado Muhammad
Use of a DVD to provide dietary and lifestyle information to pregnant women who are overweight or obese: a nested randomised trial
Malgorzata A Szmeja, Courtney Cramp, Rosalie M Grivell, Andrea R Deussen, Lisa N Yelland, Jodie M Dodd
A descriptive analysis of the indications for caesarean section in mainland China
Yajun Liu, Guanghui Li, Yi Chen, Xin Wang, Yan Ruan, Liying Zou, Weiyuan Zhang
A qualitative study exploring newborn care behaviours after home births in rural Ethiopia: implications for adoption of essential interventions for saving newborn lives
Mihretab Melesse Salasibew, Suzanne Filteau, Tanya Marchant
Population-based estimates of still birth, induced abortion and miscarriage in the Indian state of Bihar
Priyanka S Kochar, Rakhi Dandona, G Anil Kumar, Lalit Dandona
Determinants of first and second trimester induced abortion - results from a cross-sectional study taken place 7 years after abortion law revisions in Ethiopia
Kristine Ivalu Bonnen, Dereje Negussie Tuijje, Vibeke Rasch
Poor linkages in maternal health care services—evidence on antenatal care and institutional delivery from a community-based longitudinal study in Tigray region, Ethiopia
Yohannes Adama Melaku, Berhe Weldearegawi, Fisaha Haile Tesfay, Semaw Ferede Abera, Loko Abraham, Alemseged Aregay, Yemane Ashebir, Friehiwot Eshetu, Ashenafi Haile, Yihunie Lakew, John Kinsman
Unsafe abortion in rural Tanzania – the use of traditional medicine from a patient and a provider perspective
Vibeke Rasch, Pernille H Sørensen, Anna R Wang, Flora Tibazarwa, Anna K Jäger
Pregnancy resolutions among pregnant teens: termination, parenting or adoption?
Alice Yuen Loke, Pui-ling Lam
"A renewed sense of purpose": Mothers' and fathers' experience of having a child following a recent stillbirth
Louise Campbell-Jackson, Jessica Bezance, Antje Horsch
Ancillary benefits of antenatal ultrasound: an association between the introduction of a low-cost ultrasound program and an increase in the numbers of women receiving recommended antenatal treatments
Andrew B Ross, Kristen K DeStigter, Anastasia Coutinho, Sonia Souza, Anthony Mwatha, Alphonsus Matovu, Michael Grace Kawooya, Ssembatya Renny
Audit of a new model of birth care for women with low risk pregnancies in South Africa: the primary care onsite midwife-led birth unit (OMBU)
George Justus Hofmeyr, Thozeka Mancotywa, Nomvula Silwana-Kwadjo, Batembu Mgudlwa, Theresa A Lawrie, Ahmet Metin Gülmezoglu
Pre-pregnancy Body Mass Index (BMI) and delivery outcomes in a Canadian population
Angela Vinturache, Nadia Moledina, Sheila McDonald, Donna Slater, Suzanne Tough
Management of pregnant and postnatal women with pre-existing diabetes or cardiac disease using multi-disciplinary team models of care: a systematic review
Debra Bick, Sarah Beake, Lucy Chappell, Khaled M Ismail, David R McCance, James SA Green, Cath Taylor
A qualitative study of health system barriers to accessibility and utilization of maternal and newborn healthcare services in Ghana after user-fee abolition
John Kuumuori Ganle, Michael Parker, Raymond Fitzpatrick, Easmon Otupiri
Determinants and consequences of short birth interval in rural Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study
Hendrik CC de Jonge, Kishwar Azad, Nadine Seward, Abdul Kuddus, Sanjit Shaha, James Beard, Anthony Costello, Tanja AJ Houweling, Ed Fottrell
A decomposition analysis of change in skilled birth attendants, 2003 to 2008, Ghana demographic and health surveys
Samuel Bosomprah, Genevieve Cecelia Aryeetey, Justice Nonvignon, Richard M Adanu
Comparing satisfaction and burnout between caseload and standard care midwives: findings from two cross-sectional surveys conducted in Victoria, Australia
Michelle S Newton, Helen L McLachlan, Karen F Willis, Della A Forster
Adverse effects of parental smoking during pregnancy in urban and rural areas
Helen Andriani, Hsien-Wen Kuo
Perceptions of antenatal iron-folic acid supplements in urban and rural Pakistan: a qualitative study
Yasir Bin Nisar, Ashraful Alam, Brekhna Aurangzeb, Michael J Dibley
Women’s experiences of their pregnancy and postpartum body image: a systematic review and meta-synthesis
Emma L Hodgkinson, Debbie M Smith, Anja Wittkowski
Second trimester amniotic fluid cytokine concentrations, Ureaplasmasp. colonisation status and sexual activity as predictors of preterm birth in Chinese and Australian women
Matthew S Payne, Zhenhua Feng, Shaofu Li, Dorota A Doherty, Biyun Xu, Jie Li, Lenan Liu, Jeffrey A Keelan, Yi Hua Zhou, Jan E Dickinson, Yali Hu, John P Newnham
A qualitative descriptive study of the group prenatal care experience: perceptions of women with low-risk pregnancies and their midwives
Sarah D McDonald, Wendy Sword, Leyla E Eryuzlu, Anne B Biringer
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander maternal and child health and wellbeing: a systematic search of programs and services in Australian primary health care settings
Crystal Jongen, Janya McCalman, Roxanne Bainbridge, Komla Tsey
Experiences of and responses to disrespectful maternity care and abuse during childbirth; a qualitative study with women and men in Morogoro Region, Tanzania
Shannon A McMahon, Asha S George, Joy J Chebet, Idda H Mosha, Rose NM Mpembeni, Peter J Winch
Opportunities and challenges in implementing community based skilled birth attendance strategy in Kenya
Margaret Titty Mannah, Charlotte Warren, Shiphrah Kuria, Adetoro A Adegoke
Does cultural practice affects neonatal survival- a case control study among low birth weight babies in Aceh Province, Indonesia
Rosnah Sutan, Satrinawati Berkat
Association between gestational age at birth, antenatal corticosteroids, and outcomes at 5 years: multiple courses of antenatal corticosteroids for preterm birth study at 5 years of age (MACS-5)
Elizabeth Asztalos, Andrew Willan, Kellie Murphy, Stephen Matthews, Arne Ohlsson, Saroj Saigal, Anthony Armson, Edmond Kelly, Marie-France Delisle, Amiram Gafni, Shoo Lee, Renee Sananes, Joanne Rovet, Patricia Guselle, Kofi Amankwah
Cultural differences in postnatal quality of life among German-speaking women – a prospective survey in two countries
Susanne Grylka-Baeschlin, Edwin van Teijlingen, Mechthild M Gross
Induction of labour in pre-eclamptic women: a randomised trial comparing the Foley balloon catheter with oral misoprostol
Hillary Bracken, Shuchita Mundle, Brian Faragher, Thomas Easterling, Alan Haycox, Mark Turner, Zarko Alfirevic, Beverly Winikoff, Andrew Weeks
Multicenter prospective clinical study to evaluate the prediction of short-term outcome in pregnant women with suspected preeclampsia (PROGNOSIS): study protocol
Martin Hund, Deirdre Allegranza, Maria Schoedl, Peter Dilba, Wilma Verhagen-Kamerbeek, Holger Stepan
Experiences and outcomes of maternal Ramadan fasting during pregnancy: results from a sub-cohort of the Born in Bradford birth cohort study
Emily S Petherick, Derek Tuffnell, John Wright
Estimation of high risk pregnancy contributing to perinatal morbidity and mortality from a birth population-based regional survey in 2010 in China
Libo Sun, Hongni Yue, Bo Sun, Liangrong Han, Zhaofang Tian, Meihua Qi, Shuyan Lu, Chunming Shan, Jianxin Luo, Yujing Fan, Shouzhong Li, Maotian Dong, Xiaofeng Zuo, Yixing Zhang, Wenlong Lin, Jinzhong Xu, Yongbo Heng
Correlates of poor perinatal outcomes in non-hospital births in the context of weak health system: the Nigerian experience
Peter Onubiwe Nkwo, Lucky Osaheni Lawani, Euzebus Chinonye Ezugwu, Chukwuemeka Anthony Iyoke, Agozie C Ubesie, Robinson Chukwudi Onoh
Women’s experiences of postnatal distress: a qualitative study
Rose Coates, Susan Ayers, Richard de Visser
Risk factors for reported obstetric complications and near misses in rural northwest Bangladesh: analysis from a prospective cohort study
Shegufta S Sikder, Alain B Labrique, Abu A Shamim, Hasmot Ali, Sucheta Mehra, Lee Wu, Saijuddin Shaikh, Keith P West Jr, Parul Christian
How do Australian maternity and early childhood health services identify and respond to the settlement experience and social context of refugee background families?
Jane Yelland, Elisha Riggs, Sayed Wahidi, Fatema Fouladi, Sue Casey, Josef Szwarc, Philippa Duell-Piening, Donna Chesters, Stephanie Brown
Women’s experiences of two different self-assessment methods for monitoring fetal movements in full-term pregnancy - a crossover trial
Mari-Cristin Malm, Ingela Rådestad, Christine Rubertsson, Ingegerd Hildingsson, Helena Lindgren
Healthcare providers’ views on the acceptability of financial incentives for breastfeeding: a qualitative study
Barbara Whelan, Kate J Thomas, Patrice Van Cleemput, Heather Whitford, Mark Strong, Mary J Renfrew, Elaine Scott, Clare Relton
Current evidence on basic emergency obstetric and newborn care services in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; a cross sectional study
Alemnesh H Mirkuzie, Mitike Molla Sisay, Alemnesh Tekelebirhan Reta, Mulu Muleta Bedane
Obstetrician-Gynecologists’ knowledge of sickle cell disease screening and management
Ijeoma C Azonobi, Britta L Anderson, Vanessa R Byams, Althea M Grant, Jay Schulkin
The relationship between low maternal serum vitamin D levels and glycemic control in gestational diabetes assessed by HbA1c levels: an observational cross-sectional study
Ahmed El Lithy, Rana M Abdella, Yahia M El-Faissal, Ahmed M Sayed, Rasha M Abdel Samie
A population-based study of neonatal mortality and maternal care utilization in the Indian state of Bihar
G Anil Kumar, Rakhi Dandona, Priyanka Chaman, Priyanka Singh, Lalit Dandona
The Canadian birth place study: examining maternity care provider attitudes and interprofessional conflict around planned home birth
Saraswathi Vedam, Kathrin Stoll, Laura Schummers, Nichole Fairbrother, Michael C Klein, Dana Thordarson, Jude Kornelsen, Shafik Dharamsi, Judy Rogers, Robert Liston, Janusz Kaczorowski
Effects of induction of labour versus expectant management in women with impending post-term pregnancies: the 41 week – 42 week dilemma
Joep C Kortekaas, Aafke Bruinsma, Judit KJ Keulen, Jeroen van Dillen, Martijn A Oudijk, Joost J Zwart, Jannet JH Bakker, Dokie de Bont, Marianne Nieuwenhuijze, Pien M Offerhaus, Anton H van Kaam, Frank Vandenbussche, Ben Willem J Mol, Esteriek de Miranda
‘Ultrasound is an invaluable third eye, but it can’t see everything’: a qualitative study with obstetricians in Australia
Kristina Edvardsson, Rhonda Small, Margareta Persson, Ann Lalos, Ingrid Mogren
Supporting breastfeeding In Local Communities (SILC): protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial
Helen L McLachlan, Della A Forster, Lisa H Amir, Rhonda Small, Meabh Cullinane, Lyndsey F Watson, Touran Shafiei
Effects of trimester-specific and total gestational weight gain on children’s anthropometrics
Otmar Bayer, Regina Ensenauer, Ina Nehring, Rüdiger von Kries
Considerations of private sector obstetricians on participation in the state led “Chiranjeevi Yojana” scheme to promote institutional delivery in Gujarat, India: a qualitative study
Parthasarathi Ganguly, Kate Jehan, Ayesha de Costa, Dileep Mavalankar, Helen Smith
Internet information on birth options after caesarean compared to the RCOG patient information leaflet; a web survey
Natalie Whitelaw, Siladitya Bhattacharya, David McLernon, Mairead Black
Effects of lifestyle intervention on dietary intake, physical activity level, and gestational weight gain in pregnant women with different pre-pregnancy Body Mass Index in a randomized control trial
Amy Leung Hui, Lisa Back, Sora Ludwig, Phillip Gardiner, Gustaaf Sevenhuysen, Heather J Dean, Elisabeth Sellers, Jonathan McGavock, Margaret Morris, Depeng Jiang, Garry X Shen
Factors influencing the quality of preconception healthcare in China: applying a preconceptional instrument to assess healthcare needs
Xinliang Zhao, Xiaoqing Jiang, Junzhen Zhu, Guozheng Li, Xiaoyan He, Fengying Ma, Qian Meng, Qinying Cao, Yucui Meng, Christopher Howson, Nanbert Zhong, Yaping Tian
Assessment of feto-maternal hemorrhage among rhesus D negative pregnant mothers using the kleihauer-betke test (KBT) and flow cytometry (FCM) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Fekadu Urgessa, Aster Tsegaye, Yirgu Gebrehiwot, Asaye Birhanu
Maternal satisfaction with organized perinatal care in Serbian public hospitals
Bojana Matejić, Milena Šantrić Milićević, Vladimir Vasić, Bosiljka Djikanović
Fear for external cephalic version and depression: predictors of successful external cephalic version for breech presentation at term?
Emily Ciliacus, Marieke van der Zalm, Sophie E Truijens, Tom H Hasaart, Victor J Pop, Simone M Kuppens
Outcome of deliveries among adolescent girls at the Yaoundé central hospital
Florent Ymele Fouelifack, Theodore Yangsi Tameh, Eta Ngole Mbong, Philip Njotang Nana, Jeanne Hortence Fouedjio, Jovanny Tsuala Fouogue, Robinson Enow Mbu
Continuity of care: what matters to women when they are referred from primary to secondary care during labour? a qualitative interview study in the Netherlands
Ank de Jonge, Rosan Stuijt, Iva Eijke, Marjan J Westerman
Meta-analysis of studies on biochemical marker tests for the diagnosis of premature rupture of membranes: comparison of performance indexes
Montse Palacio, Maritta Kühnert, Richard Berger, Cindy L Larios, Louis Marcellin
Preconception maternal nutrition: a multi-site randomized controlled trial
K Michael Hambidge, Nancy F Krebs, Jamie E Westcott, Ana Garces, Shivaprasad S Goudar, Balachandra S Kodkany, Omrana Pasha, Antoinette Tshefu, Carl L Bose, Lester Figueroa, Robert L Goldenberg, Richard J Derman, Jacob E Friedman, Daniel N Frank, Elizabeth M McClure, Kristen Stolka, Abhik Das, Marion Koso-Thomas, Shelly Sundberg
Adenosine A2Breceptors induce proliferation, invasion and activation of cAMP response element binding protein (CREB) in trophoblast cells
Natallia Darashchonak, Brunhild Koepsell, Natalia Bogdanova, Frauke von Versen-Höynck
Association between hyperglycemia in middle and late pregnancy and maternal-fetal outcomes: a retrospective study
Juan Gui, Aizhen Li, Xiaoling Su, Ling Feng
Screening models using multiple markers for early detection of late-onset preeclampsia in low-risk pregnancy
Hee Jin Park, Soo Hyun Kim, Yong Wook Jung, Sung Shin Shim, Ji Yeon Kim, Yeon Kyung Cho, Antonio Farina, Margherita Zanello, Kyoung Jin Lee, Dong Hyun Cha
Prenatal risk factors for Tourette Syndrome: a systematic review
Ting-Kuang Chao, Jing Hu, Tamara Pringsheim
Finger joint laxity, number of previous pregnancies and pregnancy induced back pain in a cohort study
Anne Lindgren, Per Kristiansson
First look: a cluster-randomized trial of ultrasound to improve pregnancy outcomes in low income country settings
Elizabeth M McClure, Robert O Nathan, Sarah Saleem, Fabian Esamai, Ana Garces, Elwyn Chomba, Antoinette Tshefu, David Swanson, Hillary Mabeya, Lester Figuero, Waseem Mirza, David Muyodi, Holly Franklin, Adrien Lokangaka, Dieudonne Bidashimwa, Omrana Pasha, Musaku Mwenechanya, Carl L Bose, Waldemar A Carlo, K Michael Hambidge, Edward A Liechty, Nancy Krebs, Dennis D Wallace, Jonathan Swanson, Marion Koso-Thomas, Rexford Widmer, Robert L Goldenberg
Adverse birth outcomes among deliveries at Gondar University Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia
Akilew Awoke Adane, Tadesse Awoke Ayele, Leta Gedefaw Ararsa, Bikes Destaw Bitew, Berihun Megabiaw Zeleke
Magnitude of income-related disparities in adverse perinatal outcomes
Ketan Shankardass, Patricia O’Campo, Linda Dodds, John Fahey, KS Joseph, Julia Morinis, Victoria M Allen
Is essential newborn care provided by institutions and after home births? Analysis of prospective data from community trials in rural South Asia
Christina Pagel, Audrey Prost, Munir Hossen, Kishwar Azad, Abdul Kuddus, Swati Sarbani Roy, Nirmala Nair, Prasanta Tripathy, Naomi Saville, Aman Sen, Catherine Sikorski, Dharma S Manandhar, Anthony Costello, Sonya Crowe
Caesarean section – an appraisal of some predictive factors in Lagos Nigeria
Oluwarotimi Ireti Akinola, Adetokunbo O Fabamwo, Adetokunbo O Tayo, Kabiru A Rabiu, Yusuf A Oshodi, Mercy E Alokha
The Birth Memories and Recall Questionnaire (BirthMARQ): development and evaluation
Suzanne Foley, Rosalind Crawley, Stephanie Wilkie, Susan Ayers
Retraction Note: “folic acid supplementation, dietary folate intake during pregnancy and risk for spontaneous preterm delivery: a prospective observational cohort study”
Verena Sengpiel, Jonas Bacelis, Ronny Myhre, Solveig Myking, Aase Devold Pay, Margaretha Haugen, Anne-Lise Brantsæter, Helle Margrete Meltzer, Roy M Nilsen, Per Magnus, Stein Emil Vollset, Staffan Nilsson, Bo Jacobsson