Introduction Ultrasound is an essential part of obstetric care and should not be limited to hospital use. The introduction of a portable device could enable community midwives to take ultrasound to ...

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AIM To define the normal range of systolic blood pressure in a non-selective population based sample of babies of low gestation throughout early infancy. METHODS Daily measurements of systolic blood ...

A 19-year-old at 39 weeks gestation had caesarean delivery for pathological cardiotocograph at 2 cm cervical dilatation. Antenatal, intrapartum and postpartum blood pressures did not exceed 140/90 mm ...

Abstract Louise Bourgeois was the first practicing midwife to write of her experience of childbirth and of women’s problems. She did much to enhance the respect in which her craft was held. For 26 ...

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Correspondence to: Dr Buttery, Clinical Paediatric Infectious Diseases Unit, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia; butteryj{at}cryptic.rch.unimelb.edu.au ...

6 Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK Correspondence to Professor Neil Marlow, Institute for Women's Health, University ...

1 Department of Neonatal Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2 Department of Neonatal Medicine, Royal North Shore Hospital and University ...

Correspondence to Dr Vincent C Smith, Department of Neonatology, BIDMC 330 Brookline Avenue Rose 318, Boston, MA 02215, USA; vsmith1{at}bidmc.harvard.edu Apnoea of prematurity (AOP) affects almost all ...

OBJECTIVES Primary: to compare sequential and simultaneous breast pumping on volume of milk expressed and its fat content. Secondary: to measure the effect of breast massage on milk volume and fat ...

OBJECTIVES To document the incidence, timing, degree, and associations of systemic hypoperfusion in the preterm infant and to explore the temporal relation between low systemic blood flow and the ...