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Monday, Aug 31st, 2009 ↓Home birth with midwife safe as hospital →
Aug 31, 2009 (Cbc.ca)—Giving birth at home with a registered midwife can be as safe as a hospital birth for the infant and the mom, according to a Canadian study released Monday.
Midwives provide round-the-clock care for women during pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum in hospitals, birthing centres and at the homes of women.
The rate of deaths was about two per 1,000 for planned home births involving midwives as well as deliveries in hospitals involving either midwives or doctors, the researchers found.
“Women planning birth at home experienced reduced risk for all obstetric interventions measured, and similar or reduced risk for adverse maternal outcomes,” such as electronic fetal monitoring and postpartum hemorrhage, Dr. Patricia Janssen from the University of British Columbia and her co-authors wrote in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
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Tags: pregnant birth safety midwife hospital infant mom mother delivery fetal monitoring postpartum hemorrhage
Aspirin And Similar Drugs May Be Associated With Brain Microbleeds In Older Adults →
ScienceDaily (Apr. 14, 2009) — Individuals who take aspirin or other medications that prevent blood clotting by inhibiting the accumulation of platelets appear more likely to have tiny, asymptomatic areas of bleeding in the brain, according to a report posted online today that will appear in the June print issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
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Obesity during Pregnancy Raise Risk for Postpartum Hemorrhage →
February 2, 2009 (Medscape) (San Diego, California) — Obesity is an independent risk factor for postpartum hemorrhage (PPH), according to findings presented here at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine 29th Annual Meeting.
Obese women also have a higher-than-average risk for pre-eclampsia and cesarean delivery, even if they have no other health problems, Ryan E. Longman, MD, a fellow in medical genetics at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, said during a poster session.
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