scholarly journals Celebrate Birth!—Ava's Arrival

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 118-119
Author(s):  
Kim Reardon

As a Certified Lamaze Childbirth Educator and poet, I wrote this poem to help a new mother come to terms with the fact she was unable to have a vaginal delivery. Her first born was in a transverse lie the entire third trimester. Despite numerous interventions, the baby would not turn and had to be delivered by cesarean surgery. This was the safest possible birth for mother and baby. The couple desperately wanted to hold true to the Lamaze Philosophy and Healthy Birth Practices. They insisted labor begin spontaneously, and so it did. The poem and photographs reveal the parents' fortitude, demonstrating the core premise of their birth plan was not negated. The outcome: healthy mother and healthy baby.

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-57
Author(s):  
Areej Noaman

  Background : A successful birth outcome is defined as the birth of a healthy baby to a healthy mother. While relatively low in industrialized world, maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality and neonatal deaths occur disproportionately in developing countries. Aim of the Study: To assess birth outcome and identify some risk factors affecting it for achieving favorable birth outcome in Tikrit Teaching Hospital


2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masafumi Yamamoto ◽  
Mio Takami ◽  
Ryosuke Shindo ◽  
Michi Kasai ◽  
Shigeru Aoki

Expectant management leads to successful vaginal delivery following intrauterine fetal death in a woman with an incarcerated uterus. Management of intrauterine fetal death in the second or third trimester of pregnancy in women with an incarcerated uterus is challenging. We report a case of successful vaginal delivery following intrauterine fetal death by expectant management in a woman with an incarcerated uterus. In cases of intrauterine fetal death in women with an incarcerated uterus, vaginal delivery may be possible if the incarceration is successfully reduced. If the reduction is impossible, expectant management can reduce uterine retroversion, thereby leading to spontaneous reduction of the incarcerated uterus. Thereafter, vaginal delivery may be possible.


Author(s):  
DIVYA PAWAR ◽  
Dr Sameer Gholap

Motherhood is a divine blessing. Anti-natal care is a potential timely care of mother and foetus till delivery from first month of her pregnancy which is co-related with Garbhini Paricharya explained in Ayurveda, to get Shreyasi Praja which ensure normal pregnancy and uncomplicated labour with delivery of a healthy baby from healthy mother. Wellbeing of garbha can be achieved only through of the wellness of the garbhini thus Acharyas have given it under Garbhini Paricharya concept. In Ayurveda along with Trimester wise regimen, Garbhini Paricharya comprises Masanumasik Pathya (Month wise dietary regimen), Garbhopaghatakara Bhavas which are contraindicated Dietetics and mode of life for mother. Garbhasthapaka drugs which are useful for foetus.   AIMS AND OBJECTIVE To study Garbhini Paricharya and establish its Ayurveda co-ordination. To evaluate Trimester wise regimen. To give proper nutrition, equilibrium of doshas, welfare and contraindication of mother and Foetus.   METHODOLOGY Reviewing the modern science literature regarding Anti-natal care and Ayurvedic classics, commentaries also recently published books and Research journals, the Garbhini Paricharya collection done and attempt to get co-relation between Ayurveda and Modern Anti-natal care for healthy progeny.   CONCLUSION- Ayurvedic preconceptional measure help to achieve the goal of preconception to have healthy and good progeny. Ayurvedic remedy for getting healthy progeny emphasizes again preventive aspect of Ayurveda.   KEY WORDS: Garbhini Paricharya, Month wise dietary regimen, Garbhopaghatakara Bhavas, Garbhasthapaka drugs, Anti-natal care.


2021 ◽  
pp. 22-23
Author(s):  
Tejal L. Patel ◽  
Tushar M. Shah ◽  
Niti Bhatia ◽  
Hemaxi Kotadia ◽  
Mohit Shah

Pregnancy complicated with Eisenmenger syndrome is associated with high risk to the fetus as well as the mother. There is approximately 50% risk of sudden maternal death, frequently occuring a few days postpartum and the overall fetal wastage is reported to be up to 75%. Patients with Eisenmenger syndrome are advised to refrain from pregnancy or to terminate pregnancy by the end of rst trimester itself. Management of these patients requires a co- ordinated multi-specialist care when such pregnancies reach a stage where safe termination is not advisable. However, in spite of all the risks, a few patients deliver successfully with a good maternal and neonatal outcome. We present 2 cases reported till third trimester and delivered a healthy baby and were subsequently discharged on the 10th postpartum day without any serious complications.


1987 ◽  
Vol 80 (8) ◽  
pp. 492-494 ◽  
Author(s):  
J B Anderson ◽  
G M Turner ◽  
R C N Williamson

Four patients underwent emergency colectomy during pregnancy or the puerperium for complications of ulcerative proctocolitis. Three had inactive colitis at conception, while in the fourth the disease started during pregnancy. Three patients required subtotal colectomy and ileostomy for toxic dilatation during the third trimester or within 5 days of delivery, and the fourth underwent proctocolectomy postpartum for intractable colitis. There were no maternal deaths but 2 of 4 infants died. One child weighing 1.4 kg survived vaginal delivery during the 33rd week of pregnancy, 2 weeks after his mother had undergone emergency colectomy.


Peptides ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Curt A. Sandman ◽  
Pathik D. Wadhwa ◽  
Aleksandra Chicz-DeMet ◽  
Manuel Porto ◽  
Thomas J. Garite

Author(s):  
Zane Krastiņa ◽  
Jānis Šavlovskis ◽  
Anna Langrate ◽  
Toms Znotiņš

Uterine rupture during pregnancy is a rare complication that, like any rupture in other body organ, has a life-saving condition. However, in this case, it threatens both, the mother and the child lives and it can lead to serious complications such as asphyxia, hemorrhagic shock, perinatal hysterectomy, hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, brain injury, and death. It is known, that most often, it develops during the third trimester of pregnancy or during labor. We report a patient who experienced uterine rupture with 2500 ml blood loss following the diagnostic amniocentesis at 16 weeks. The same patient had suture dehiscence at the site of hematoma what was revealed during the Caesarean section at 37 weeks and a healthy baby was delivered.


1981 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-116
Author(s):  
Sylvia Limerick

This precious new being soon became the centre of my day. Like every new mother I was fascinated watching him grow stronger and more responsive. Soon he became such a personality that it was hard to imagine what life was like before he came along. He was our great delight. Then suddenly our whole world was shattered. I put him to bed one night not unduly worried by the little snuffle he had developed that day. It was not bothering him and he was his usual perky self. He was sleeping happily when we looked in to see him before going to bed ourselves. When we were to get him up in the morning his face was blue and he showed no sign of life. Although we hoped against hope as we rushed him to the doctor, he could only confirm that M was dead. He was just 13 months old. We made exhaustive enquiries as to why a seemingly healthy baby should die so suddenly — so without warning. We learnt that what we had faced that morning is faced by five or six families every day in Britain; that unexpected deaths in infancy are the commonest kind of death in babies aged between 1 week and 2 years, though in the majority of cases the babies are aged between 1 and 6 months; and that after the age of 1 week, there are now more babies dying unexpectedly at home in the community than die in hospital.


2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Nahreen Akhtar ◽  
Firoza Begum ◽  
Tabassum Parveen ◽  
Syeda Sayeeda ◽  
Sabina Karim

Abdominal pregnancy is a rare form of ectopic pregnancy with very high morbidity and mortality for both the mother and the fetus. Diagnosis and management can pose some difficulties especially in low resource centres. High index of suspi­cious is vital in making prompt diagnosis in such situations. A young lady of 30 years presented with 2nd gravida at 31 wks pregnancy with pain in the whole abdomen having loose motion admitted in Dept of Obs and Gynae BSMMU. She was diagnosed as a case of 31 wks pregnancy with gastroenteritis. She was treated conservatively according to advice of gastroenterologist and was discharged after improvement. Patient was readmitted again with pervaginal watery discharge. Decision for cesarean section was taken because of transverse lie, fetal growth restriction with severe oligohydramnios. After opening the abdomen, abdominal pregnancy was diagnosed. Following delivery of the baby significant bleeding started which was secured with ligature. Placenta was kept in situ. Mother and baby were discharged healthy on fourteenth postoperative day.


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