Allay the dangers of maternity by honouring rural custom
”Mama!” Josephine Masedi hears the cry from next door. She stands up and walks briskly into her neighbour’s house to find the pregnant young woman gripping the arm of a couch. Her sweaty face is...
View ArticleThe Big Push: Call the Midwife in Bangladesh
More than 350,000 babies are born globally every day. Yet in many cultures it remains a mystical and deeply superstitious act. Now expertise from the UK's TV hit Call the Midwife is helping people in...
View ArticleExplainer: what are women’s options for giving birth? (University of Western...
(Source: University of Western Sydney) The following piece, by Professor Hannah Dahlen from the School of Nursing and Midwifery(opens in new window) was first published by The Conversation (opens in...
View ArticleThe high number of stillbirths shows we are not listening to women properly
Kate Nelson was pregnant with twins four years ago when she began to feel ill and couldn’t keep food or water down. At the hospital she saw yet another overstretched clinician who didn’t know her or...
View ArticleCoverage of antenatal care in India has to be increased: WHO
In 2013, globally, preterm birth complications were responsible for 15 per cent (0.96 million) of deaths in children under five years of age. It is a leading cause of death in neonates (0-27 days after...
View Article'Half of UK stillbirths could be prevented with scans'
More than half of stillbirths in the UK could be prevented if the NHS implemented additional scans, a leading obstetrician has told Panorama. Each year, more than 3,000 babies are stillborn in the UK,...
View ArticleWHO Doubles the Number of Prenatal Visits, Changes Guidelines for Care
Pregnant women worldwide should have at least eight visits with competent midwives or health workers before giving birth. That's double the previous recommendation by the World Health Organization...
View ArticleFighting fistula: Razia's brave recovery from pregnancy nightmare
In a remote village in central Pakistan a teenage girl is screaming for help in unbearable labour pain. There are no trained midwives or doctors around for miles in Rahim Yar Khan District in southern...
View ArticleHounded for giving birth outside the system
Some women who opt for alternative births are being forced towards medical intervention or threatened with social services, yet they are doing nothing wrong...
View ArticleTraining volunteers and supporting health systems improves access to...
(Source: IFRC - International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies) According to Ethiopia's 2011 Demographic and Health Survey, nearly half a million children under-five die every year....
View ArticlePregnant Women Should Have At Least Eight Antenatal Visits To Reduce Risk Of...
Pregnant women should have at least eight visits with midwives or health workers before they give birth, which is double the previous recommendation, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO)....
View ArticleExtended drug roll-out is good news for prem babies
Premature births account for 50% of neonatal (within in the first four weeks of birth) deaths in South Africa, according to a 2012 United Nations report on child mortality. But a cheap and fairly easy...
View ArticleStarting a family: “Just as the ambulance crew arrived, I had a huge urge to...
The first man to see my second child emerge into the world wasn’t my husband. That honour, if you will, fell to Dave the paramedic. Not that this was an emergency. Dave was training for such a...
View ArticleWhy don't people talk more about stillbirths?
Share Share this with Copy this link http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-36855840 Close share panel × It happens all too often - in the park, at the supermarket checkout, at the school gate. But every...
View ArticleTraditional Birth Attendants: Lights of the Community (Elizabeth Glaser...
(Source: Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation) By Team EGPAF | August 30, 2016 Margaret Awong'o lives in Lochorekaal, a village of about 20 families in northwest Kenya, not far from the South...
View ArticleRoyal baby: When to induce?
30 April 2015 From the section Health The birth of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's second baby is reported to be overdue, possibly by up to one week. So what could happen now? Most women go into...
View Article'I'm insisting that things be done my way': readers share their birth stories
Whether choosing a home birth or a hospital birth, we asked readers for their experiences and about the quality of care...
View ArticleMobile Technology Reducing Cameroon's Maternal, Child Deaths
Moki Edwin Kindzeka YAOUNDE— Cameroon is experimenting with an automated message service to reduce the number of deaths of pregnant women and infants in Cameroon due to lack of information on antenatal...
View ArticleMen Divided Over Prenatal Role
For some time now, health professionals have been encouraging husbands and fathers to embrace new roles that will help their wives and babies stay healthy during and after pregnancy. As a result, men...
View ArticleNamibia: Maternity waiting homes protect newborns and mothers (WHO - World...
(Source: WHO - World Health Organization) January 2016 Two years ago, under shade trees in a field adjacent to the Okongo Hospital located in the Ohangwena Region of northern Namibia, 20 to 30 tents...
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