Targeted health and social care interventions for women and infants who are disproportionately impacted by health inequalities in high-income countries: a systematic review. Int J Equity Health. 2023;22(1):131. Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Hollowell J, Oakley L, Kurinczuk JJ, ...
Infants, who are breastfed exclusively for at least 4 months have fewer incidences of SIDS (20), ear infections, diarrhea (21), and allergies (22). Breastfed infants, when compared to formula fed infants, have increased immunoglobulins, antibody production, resistance to pathogens, bonding ...
Over two years from being declared a global pandemic, COVID-19 continues to impact society and health. Maternity care, as with many other healthcare sectors across the globe, has experienced tumultuous change. Unlike many other healthcare sectors, however, individuals accessing maternity care, for ...
for infants born to recent immigrant women [10]. Other negative newborn and maternal outcomes have also been observed, such as higher rates of gestational diabetes (predisposing the mothers to pre-eclampsia and type 2 diabetes and their offspring to obesity and type 2 diabetes) [16,17]; low ...
Post-traumatic stress symptoms in mothers of very low birth weight infants 2–3 years post-partum. Arch WomensMent Health. 2009;12(4):261–4. Article Google Scholar Foa EB, Riggs DS, Dancu CV, Rothbaum BO. Reliability and validity of a brief instrument for assessing post-traumatic stress...
The impact of widespread changes to maternity care are likely to impact on the emotional, mental, and physical health of Australian mothers and their infants [10]. There is a need for research to better understand the perspectives of pregnant and postpartum women receiving maternity care during ...
However, you find many women cover their infants and themselves, or go to a secluded area to feed their babies away from being bothered or disturbed. I truly believe that American moral values, whether we're more puritanical or the P-C ness, made so many of our people not comfortable ...
The offspring of GDM patients were at high risk of complications such as macrosomia, stillbirth, neonatal hypoglycemia, and neonatal jaundice and admittance to the NICU. Conclusions The incidence of GDM was linked to several clinical factors. Women with GDM are at high risk for complications of ...
and two or more days in postnatal wards. Results: Over six years, 25,420 infants received DHM, with 45.3% of the infants being female, 54.7% being male, 70.0% being born via cesarean section, and 77.2% being full-term. In the neonatal unit (n= 7001), 38.0% of infants used DHM ...
and in Georgia among women and infants of color (NHB) compared to NHW women and to women of all other races or ethnic groups. Another important goal of the U.S. DHHS was to prevent pregnancy-related death (MMR), which was the number of maternal deaths within one year of pregnancy per...