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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"post-birth"”.
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Women's experience of pregnancy when post-birth surgery is indicated : a phenomenological study
… women who are told their unborn babies require postnatal surgery following the 20 week scan are likely to be distressed. There is a small body of research in this area that suggests pregnancy experience is fundamentally changed and that pregnancy expectations may play a part in that process but …
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Effects of Family Stress, Family Social Support, and Family Balance on Maternal Adaptation in Post Birth Families
… family social support, and family balance on post birth maternal adaptation. The birth of a new infant is a transitional event that causes stress to the individuals within the family and the family as a unit. The childbearing woman has been identified as the core of the expanding family. Her …
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A surrogate mother’s post-birth contact with the family formed through surrogacy: a missed opportunity for South Africa or opening pandora’s box?
… of South Africa’s current framework on post-birth contact in surrogacy law and explores whether it adequately protects the interests of all parties to the surrogacy agreement. This assessment reviewed the current legislative and practical framework, and then compared it to the Verona …
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Discourses pertaining to, and lived experiences of, 'Maternal Obesity' (Body Mass Index (BMI) ≥ 30) and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus/Type Two Diabetes Mellitus in the pregnancy and post-birth period.
… first qualitative study to consider pregnancy/post-birth experiences of women with co-existing ‘maternal obesity’ and GDM/T2DM in pregnancy from a sociological perspective. Participants undertook a series of auto/biographical narrative interviews. Longitudinal engagement provided nuanced …
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Transition to parenthood: The effect of division of labor discrepancies on marital satisfaction
… between spouses. Seventy couples expecting the birth of their first baby filled out questionnaires late in pregnancy and three months postpartum. Before the birth of their babies an experimental group participated in a marital skills training workshop. Results indicated that husbands' and wives' …
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Increasing the rate of patient education regarding maternal postpartum complications in hospital affiliated outpatient obstetric/gynecologic clinics
… are mothers today that are experiencing symptoms post-partum but will not report them to their health care providers for fear of overreacting or because they do not recognize the dangers of these signs (Preeclampsia Foundation, 2022). This inability to recognize warning signs for postpartum …
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Changes in the Morphology of Hypoglossal Motor Neurons in the Brainstem of Developing Rats
… life, with a sensitive period at 10 to 13 days post-birth (P10–P13) characterized by pronounced changes in neurotransmitters, receptors, excitation-inhibition balance, and breathing. However, age-dependent morphological changes of XII MNs during the first three weeks post-birth and especially …
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Uniting maternity care with neonatal intensive care: Analysis advancing hospital experiences for families of newborns through design
<p>The landscape of childbirth has changed immensely over the last century. Medical intervention has surpassed the needs of mother and infant to be together when either requires medical attention. By bringing medical equipment for both into a single hospital room, separation between the two will be …
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Method of childbirth and its relationship to marital adjustment and parental crises
… parenthood between two different types of childbirth groups. The two groups were the prepared childbirth (PPM) and the conventional childbirth (NON-PPM) groups. Twenty-five couples in each of the two groups were studied. Age range was 20 to 40 years for the majority of subjects. Babies’ ages …
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Effects of prenatal mindfulness-based childbirth education on women’s trajectories of distress
… comparing a condensed mindfulness-based childbirth preparation program—the Mind in Labor (MIL)—to treatment as usual (TAU) to examine whether prenatal mindfulness training results in lower distress across the perinatal period, and whether the degree of benefit depends on women’s initial levels …
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Delayed motherhood : exploring expectations, anxieties and emotional impact of the transition to motherhood at mid-life (37+ years)
… second phase was conducted four to six months post-birth. The rationale for the study was that despite the continuing trend for delayed motherhood (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2002), research on the experience of'late' motherhood is extremely limited. Women are choosing to delay motherhood …
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An Interpretive Exploration of the Experiences of Mothers with Obesity and Midwives Who Care for the Obese Mother during Childbearing.
… promotion role. This could lessen the risk of post-partum weight retention post-birth and enhance a new mother’s physical and emotional well-being.
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It's a birth not a procedure: an ethnographic study of intrauterine fetal death in a labor and delivery unit of an american hospital setting
<p>Life transitions such as birth and death constitute a significant area within anthropological studies of ritual. It is important to investigate how individuals, groups, and communities organize around these events. Birth and death can be considered as <i>rites of passage</i> that mark key life …
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Transitioning into parenthood : family leisure and heterosexual couples in New Zealand
… group studies were undertaken, one with pre-birth couples and the other with post-birth couples, followed by a number of interviews with different pre-birth and post-birth couples, both individually and collectively. Interviews were also conducted with a number of leisure facility managers to …
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Returning to the Path. A hermeneutic phenomenological study of parental expectations and the meaning of transition to early parenting in couples with a pregnancy conceived using in-vitro fertilisation.
… at 34 weeks pregnant, six weeks following birth and at three months post birth. The study design enabled rich detail and interpretation aided by a unique combination of both time point and longitudinal data analysis. Findings: The contribution of interpretive phenomenology to a small number …
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Mammalian limb morphology: the role of the crawl in determining marsupial limb integration, development, and evolution
… The crawl most marsupial neonates complete after birth has constrained the evolution of the forelimb and the group as a whole. However, the hind limb, which does not participate in the crawl, may have “escaped” the crawl’s constraint. This strong selective pressure to develop the forelimb early …
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Maternal stress signature and infant neurodevelopment: determining the beneficial effects of human milk oligosaccharides - an in vitro study
… indicating that HMOs may play a role before birth. Their role during pregnancy has yet to be fully understood, but potential functions include foetal neurodevelopment and the development and support of the placental barrier function as they have already been shown to impact infant brain …
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Electroencephalography of premature infants
… to be of short duration and at varying periods post-birth. To progress and achieve future information about the predictive ability of EEG for neurodevelopmental outcome in preterm infants, more in-depth analysis is required. In this thesis, I aim to progress current knowledge in very preterm …