(Birth to Five Matters website, n.d.) This paper offers analysis and reflections on this period and the work of the coalition. The following sections consider the role of ECEC membership organisations and unions
A satisfying birth experience has positive effects on the well-being of mother and child. The birth experience depends on subjective expectations and objective birth parameters, and the view of birth can also change over time. However, it is still unclea
To assess the impact of compositional variation ofD. russeliivenom on its function, several biochemical assays were conducted. The venoms of younger stages exhibited relatively higher PLA2activity (~ 400 nmol/mg/min) than the venoms of adults (~ 100 nmol/mg/min;p < 0.0001; Fig.4A)...
Women reported concerns regarding issues such as vaginal pain, dryness and diminished sexual desire expressing a need for midwives to engage in open discussions about sexual health and to inquire about these matters. They often felt that the topic was too private to raise themselves.“Talk more ab...
(corresponding to pregnant women) were randomly split into five groups of similar size. The model was trained and validated on four parts and tested on the remaining part. This procedure was repeated five times on each set of four groups [27]. The size of the five groups were 1797, 1814...
Individual control over these matters was regarded as threatening to moral values, gender hierarchies, and family security. Birth control, abortion, and certain forms of sexual behavior were, and in many countries remain, defined as crimes against morality (Cook et al., 2003). Empirical evidence ...
A cross-sectional study was conducted with 402 postnatal women from five public health care facilities in the study setting. Information on exposure to intimate partner violence during pregnancy and the birth weight of babies was collected electronically during face-to-face interviews. The study found...
Many areas are also home to child care facilities and health centers that assist residents with children. At these centers, you can ask for advice on childcare-related matters, too. Why not utilize these support systems to ensure a comfortable pregnancy and pleasant parenthood in Japan?
The Hemo-Cue1 Hb 301 system (HemoCue AB, Angelholm, Sweden) was used at each study setting by skilled medical laboratory technologists to measure the hemoglobin (Hgb) concentration (in g/dL) of pregnant women. Five milliliters of venous blood was taken and centrifuged for 5 min in a mic...
russelii venom was sufficient to induce a haemor- rhagic lesion of 10 mm, the MHD of the neonate (5 μg/ mouse) and juvenile (6.5 μg/mouse) venoms was four to five times higher (Additional file 1: Fig S9 and S10; Additional file 2: Table S7). S enji Lax...