Sensual and sexual marital contentment in parents of small children--a follow-up study when the first child is four years old.
Becoming a parent for the first time contributes to many changes in a couple's relationship. These changes may be both positive and negative and affect both partners in the relationship. In contrast to earlier studies focusing on the experience of becoming a first-time parent (Ahlborg, Dahlof, & Hallberg, 2005;...

Midwives give reality check to 60,000 teenagers.
Teenagers across Australia will soon have a reality check about teenage pregnancy, childbirth and parenthood, thanks to the work of Victorian midwives. The Core of Life program, developed by Peninsula Health midwives Tracy Smith and Debby Pattrick, has received a $615,000 grant from the Family and Community...

India.
A campaign on Women's Access to Complete and Continued Care during Pregnancy, Childbirth and After Childbirth was held to observe National Safe Motherhood Day (11 April) and World Heritage Day (18 April). Campaign activities took place between 11-18 April 2006 and were coordinated by the CHETNA-SUMA Secretariat of the...

Social ecological predictors of repeat adolescent pregnancy.
Adolescent pregnancy is a serious public health problem in the United States. When compared with older mothers, adolescent mothers disproportionately suffer from limited education and low socioeconomic status. (1) They are more likely than older mothers to have low-birth-weight infants, and their children are at increased risk for developmental...

Cursed by God?
Americans generally think of pregnancy and birth in terms of natural processes that call for a healthy diet, doctor's appointments, ultrasounds, and pain management during labor. But as New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof reported February 25, giving birth can prove nothing short of disastrous for many women...

Health system strengthening: new potential for public health and human rights collaboration.
IS pregnancy getting safer for women? It depends. It depends on where a woman is born, her social class, ethnic group or other marker of social and geographic positioning. While specific changes in medical techniques or fashions may theoretically improve or worsen the risks for individual women everywhere, from...

Manejo ambulatorio de la paciente con placenta previa. Revision sistematica.
RESUMEN La placenta previa constituye una complicación obstétrica ostensible en términos de morbimortalidad materno-fetal, con una incidencia importante dentro de nuestra población. Múltiples intervenciones han sido puestas en marcha para minimizar los riesgos inherentes a esta patología, dentro de los cuales se encuentra la vigilancia intrahospitalaria de...

Postpartum depression detailed.
New mothers are at increased risk for severe mental disorders from the birth of a first child through 3 months post partum. Fathers are at no such risk, a finding that challenges the proposal that severe postpartum mental disorders also affect men, according to Trine Munk-Olsen of the University...

Obstetric urinary fistulas in KwaZulu-Natal what is the extent of this tragedy?
Background. This study describes the demographics and clinical characteristics of women with obstetric fistulas attending the urogynaecological unit at King Edward VIII Hospital (KEH), KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), South Africa. Method. A prospective clinical review of all women admitted with the diagnosis of an obstetric fistula at KEH from...

G-spot.
In September, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) spoke out against a type of gyn surgery. Why are the ObGyns criticizing their own specialty? ACOG spoke out in order to warn women that "vaginal rejuvenation," "designer vaginoplasty," "revirgination," and "G-spot amplification" are not medically indicated or proven...