Hospital Monitoring Rarely Changes Care When Fetal Movements Reduce Without Pathology
A retrospective study of 78 women found that inpatient monitoring for reduced fetal movements with initially normal fetal assessment rarely ...
Tag: Pregnancy
How Sex Hormones and Metabolic Hormones Talk to Each Other Across a Woman’s Life
A new review maps how estradiol synergizes with insulin, leptin, adiponectin, GLP-1 and ghrelin to coordinate appetite and glucose control ...
Fetal Immune System Traced Across Gestation in New Review
A review in Frontiers in Pediatrics summarizes how the fetal adaptive and innate immune systems develop across gestation and how ...
Quantitative Ultrasound Cervix Measurements Show Moderate Reliability in Pregnancy Study
A prospective study of 81 pregnant women found that averaged quantitative ultrasound measurements of cervical attenuation coefficient and LF midband ...
Women who survive preeclampsia in Northern Uganda describe lasting fear, weakness and unmet information needs
A qualitative study of fifteen postpartum women at Lira Regional Referral Hospital found that surviving preeclampsia and eclampsia brought lasting ...
Maternal BMI Leaves Distinct Molecular Fingerprints in Placenta, Mother and Fetus
An exploratory multi-compartment study found that higher third-trimester maternal BMI is associated with distinct gene-expression and pathway signatures in maternal ...
Circulating microRNA patterns differ in early-onset but not late-onset pre-eclampsia
A small pilot study found circulating miR-210-3p was about threefold higher in early-onset pre-eclampsia than in matched controls, while late-onset ...
Handheld ultrasound wins trust of pregnant women and providers in Karachi
A qualitative study of nine participants in peri-urban Karachi found that pregnant women and healthcare providers viewed obstetric point-of-care ultrasound ...
Nursing Intervention Based on Neuman Systems Model Eases Anxiety and Improves Sleep in First-Time Pregnant Women
A randomized controlled trial in Iran found that a Neuman Systems Model-based counseling program significantly reduced state and trait anxiety ...
Fetal day-night rhythms in the womb predict infant sleep patterns
A wearable-sensor study of 32 mother-child pairs finds that fetal day-night sleep preferences in the womb predict infant sleep patterns ...
Syringe Exchange Staff Want to Offer Reproductive Health Care but Face Barriers
Staff at 14 New York State syringe service programs said they want to offer reproductive health care onsite but are ...
Placental BMP8B–SULF2 Signaling Defect Linked to Preeclampsia
Researchers report that reduced BMP8B expression in preeclamptic placentas may impair trophoblast invasion through the BMP8B–SULF2 signaling axis.
Pheochromocytoma Crisis in Late Pregnancy Misdiagnosed as Preeclampsia
A case report describes an atypical cystic pheochromocytoma with hemorrhage that triggered a crisis at labor onset in a pregnant ...
Early Pregnancy Prehypertension Linked to Higher Odds of Low Birth Weight and SGA
A large Chinese cohort study found that first-trimester prehypertension was independently associated with higher odds of low birth weight and ...
Gene Variant Review Points to Early Warning Sign for Pregnancy Diabetes
A systematic review of ten studies finds that most research links CDKAL1 gene variants, which impair insulin processing, to an ...
Poor Blood Sugar Control in Pregnancy Linked to Worse Postpartum Metabolic Health
A Chinese cohort study found that women with gestational diabetes who missed glycemic control targets during pregnancy faced higher risks ...
Blood arsenic species linked to higher odds of pregnancy hypertension in Chinese cohort
A prospective cohort of 437 pregnant women in eastern Yunnan, China, found that higher whole-blood As(V) arsenic was associated with ...
Nighttime Light Exposure Disrupts Pregnancy in Mice, Melatonin Offers Partial Rescue
A mouse study finds that dim nighttime light during pregnancy disrupts melatonin signaling, placental function and fetal outcomes, with melatonin ...
Case Series Finds No Strong Teratogenic Signal for Ornidazole in Pregnancy
A Turkish teratology service's 15-year case series of 89 ornidazole-exposed pregnancies found no strong teratogenic signal, though the small sample ...
Web-Based Smoking Cessation Program in Pregnancy Cuts Postpartum Relapse in Trial
A randomized controlled trial in Türkiye found that pregnant women who used a web-based Transtheoretical Model intervention relapsed to smoking ...
