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High-risk Pregnancy in Developing Countries
The pursuit of motherhood at high risk of maternal mortality, both during pregnancy and during childbirth in developing countries.
Campaigners for the rights of women warn of the danger, yet, in underdeveloped countries, to complete a pregnancy. The risk to pregnant women in these countries is the same as British women were 100 years ago.
The International Women’s Day, groups for the Rights of Women, among them is Amnesty International, Oxfam and the White Ribbon Alliance, reported that despite the many promises of improving the health of pregnant women in developing countries, we are still far from achieving this objective, which is one of the eight Millennium Development Goals agreed by the UN.
Rights groups of women reported that 450 women die during childbirth or pregnancy, for every 100,000 births in developing countries, and that this rate is similar to that presented the United Kingdom in 1910, maternal mortality rates.
Jane Dreaper correspondent on health issues for the BBC, said that in some countries such as Afghanistan, Haiti and Chad, this rate is still higher.
Dreaper, notes that many of the problems facing these women are preventable with minimal medical care to treat problems such as bleeding and some basic infections. Read the rest of this entry »
Global Study of Preterm Birth
The World Health Organization has recently published a study which raised a number of objectives, such as evaluating the incidence of preterm birth and knows their distribution in the world to develop strategies for prevention and action.
Global prematurity rates, regional distribution and assessment strategies have been the targets they have set the research team led by Stacy Beck in the study has been published by WHO in its official gazette the name of “Impact World of preterm birth: systematic review of maternal morbidity and mortality. ”
To accomplish this were based on data on maternal mortality and morbidity between 1997 and 2002 officers also carried out a widespread search which extended the period until the year 2007, with missing data and models were found by multiple regressions specific to each location.
A 9.6% of premature births registered in 2005, of which 85% of those between Africa and Asia, 7% in the Caribbean and Latin America and 4% in both Europe and North America, excluding Mexico. Read the rest of this entry »
Improve Maternal Health
Millennium Development Goals
At the United Nations Organization (UNO) has set the so-called Millennium Development Goals. 8 goals are to propose that should be corrected by 2015. Among them is the desire to improve maternal health, this being the number five.
It’s a bit complicated to think today that complications arise in childbirth, such that it can even cause death of the mother and even the baby. Not only in childbirth but also during pregnancy and the weeks after childbirth, especially the first 6, they are also very important.
Regions such as sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia are the most accuse these complications, since the year 2005, some 426,000 women died in these regions. This may be because there are complications that can be treated, but in these areas is complicated by the lack of existing facilities and if the probability of maternal mortality in a developed country is 1 in 7300, soars to 1 in 22 in these regions discussed.
These reasons are enough to mark as Millennium Goal, improving maternal health, since between 1990 and 2005 was achieved progress has been minimal if not nil, only 1%, a deemed unacceptable. Read the rest of this entry »
Changes in the Third Trimester of Pregnancy
Child Development and in recent months pregnant
While every pregnancy is different and unique, there are certain general changes can be applied to all cases and that may satisfy your curiosity.
The information in this article is the product of reading and research studies, but the experience of each woman and each baby is unique in its development. However, given the doubts that may arise of how your baby is growing inside you and what is happening with your body, this guide every month of late pregnancy can help.
After completing the pregnancy other types of changes start and doubts about your body, your feelings and care for your baby.
Month 7 (29 to 32 weeks)
At this stage the size of the baby’s head begins to be more proportional in the body. At the end of this period, the baby may have taken the position of head to the pelvis, this occurs because at the bottom of the uterus is where there is sufficient space. The baby can play with during this stage sucking one of his fingers. His lungs are still immature but if born at this time with proper medical attention could survive. Read the rest of this entry »
Breastfeeding
Buenos Aires health program launched a prevention campaign
Breastfeeding could save each year, the lives of some 1.3 million children a year, said the World Health Organization.
The activity worldwide, aims this year to reinforce the importance of breastfeeding to save lives in situations marked by natural disasters, wars or pandemics, such as influenza A H1N1.
“The immune system during pregnancy, is naturally suppressed, why women are more vulnerable to infections during this period,” said Flavia Ranieri, Provincial Program Coordinator Maternal and Child Health Ministry of Buenos Aires Province of Argentina, referring to pregnant women as a group at risk.
In this sense, Health Program recommends Aires “pregnant women to continue their monitoring of pregnancy and addressed, if possible, in the health center (CAPS) closest to your home.”
“From go to the hospital, pregnant women with febrile symptoms and can not wait to request priority attention,” reports the same health program.
Do not stop breastfeeding even when they have flu symptoms. Read the rest of this entry »
The Second Trimester of Pregnancy
Baby development and changes in the mother of 4 to 6 months
Each pregnancy is unique, but it is interesting to quench the curiosity about the most common things that usually happen to babies and the mother during the gestation period
In the first trimester pregnancy may not be as noticeable to others even when you’ve begun to feel it, but in the second the changes in you and begin to be more noticeable to others and the baby feels most strongly.
Month 4 (from 13 to 16 weeks)
The baby’s head is large relative to the body. The eyelashes and eyebrows grow. The fingers are already formed and sex is determined. At this stage you can sense light through the belly of the mother and is about 15 cms. It can weigh between 150 and 200 grams.
In the mother’s belly grows, which can lead to back pain and stomach. You can start feeling the baby move, like a gas or fluttering. The nipples may begin to secrete colostrums, a yellowish liquid that must be the first to receive the baby food. Read the rest of this entry »
Tips During Pregnancy
All advise or tell your experience, but each is unique gestation period
During the months of pregnancy, friends, family, neighbors and even strangers have something to say, but what advice you follow?
The first thing I must say that I am not a psychologist, pediatrician, obstetrician or other similar specialty. I am a mother and as such simply intend to tell of my experience and pass it to pregnant women who may be living as I lived.
Every pregnancy is definitely unique. Perhaps in some cases experiences with previous pregnancies resemble other women, but even more pregnancies a woman will live entirely similar experiences.
Everywhere Tips
When a woman is pregnant, friends, relatives, neighbors, coworkers and even strangers (as in this case, we do not know), cannot resist the temptation to give advice. And these can be passed to recommend when the best time to start buying things for the baby to eat to prevent the baby is born with much hair and going through the suggestions of not talking on cell phones or heat food in the oven microwave. Read the rest of this entry »