BACKGROUND: Chronic lung disease remains a burden for extremely preterm infants. The changes in ventilation over time and optimal ventilatory management remains unknown. Newer, non-invasive technologies provide insight into these patterns. METHODS: This single-center prospective cohort study enrolled infants
Background: Colostrum provides an immune sharing between a mother and her infant. The transfer in colostrum of antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 and the elicited cytokines may provide crucial protection to the infant. There is limited literature on the immune response to SARS-CoV-2 present in colostrum. Objective: To evaluate the presence of antibodies...
OBJECTIVE: Compared to hearing women, Deaf female sign language users receive sub-optimal maternal health care and report more dissatisfaction with their prenatal care experiences. As healthcare providers begin to regularly screen for perinatal depression, validated screening tools are not accessible to Deaf women due to severe disparities in Engli...
Objective: to identify the frequency and practice of the fourth step of the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative in a reference maternity hospital in the southwest of Maranhão. Method:Documentary research, retrospective, quantitative approach, carried out between August and November 2019. For data collection, follow-up forms were used in the maternity...
Published in Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM
Office-based early pregnancy loss (EPL) care is safe and suitable to Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs); prevalence of provision in FQHCs is unknown. We conducted a mailed site-level survey of FQHCs in New York State (n = 405). Sites that offered prenatal care were eligible for analysis. Questions included provision of and barriers to provi...
Published in Sleep Science
Objective Parents of newborn twins are at risk for both shortened sleep duration and sleep discontinuity. The purpose of this study was to characterize weekday and weekend sleep duration, sleep continuity, and awakenings in both mothers and fathers of newborn twins during the first 3 months at home. Material and Methods Sleep-wake parameters were a...
Objective: To describe the process of conception and implementa-tion of the São-Borjense Mother-Baby Strategy.Materials and method: This is an action research study devel-oped between March 2018 and Octo-ber 2019, from a simple random sampling resulting in the participa-tion of 5 managers, 27 health profes-sionals, and 23 pregnant women from the ma...
The penitentiary is an atypical context for child development, so it is possible that interactions between the mother-baby dyad suffer interference from the characteristics of this environment. In order to identify and understand the interactions between incarcerated babies and mothers, this research relied on the use of observational methodology. ...
ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE to evaluate whether advanced maternal age (AMA) is associated with prelabor cesarean section and to identify the factors associated with prelabor cesarean section in AMA women, according to the mode of type of labor financing (private or public). METHODS Based on the Birth in Brazil survey, the research was conducted on represent...
Published in International Journal of Maternal and Child Health and AIDS
Currently, there is an insufficient representation of racial/ethnic minority groups in the maternal and child health (MCH) workforce. A student-run outreach organization, the Global Alliance for Maternal and Child Health (GLAM), seeks to address this disparity by increasing the representation of racial/ethnic minority groups in MCH workforce. Found...
