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Source: U.S. National Institutes of Health; Journal of the American Medical Association, February 3, 2010 I know, I know…Let them sleep on their backs…No wait, only on their stomachs…No wait, on their backs but no pillows…or blankets…No smoking…No pets…Never in bed with you… Perhaps it’s no wonder why the Amercian Academy of Pediatrics is constantly revising guidelines [...] Source: BBC Health; British Journal of Psychiatry Australian researchers took time away from wrestling crocodiles and protecting babies from dingoes to study 1,241 women in the perinatal and postnatal time frame (Before and after they were pregnant). Why? to determine whether memory and concentration problems are really a cognitive defect of pregnancy. Their conclusions? Sorry, neither pregnancy [...] Source: BBC Health; Karolinska Institute (Sweeden) Admittedly it was a small, focused study of 36 newborns, 17 of whose mothers smoked during pregnancy. It is, however, alarming and instructive. Babies that had been exposed to cigarette smoke in utero (While in Mommy’s belly) demonstrated abnormal heart rates and blood pressures. But that’s not all. . .rather than [...] Source: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, BBC Health, MS Society Controversy on the MS (Multiple Sclerosis) front. Multiple Sclerosis is an inflammatory disease of the central nervous system which can cause severe disability and death. A joint Belgian and Dutch study tracking 330 women with MS over the course of 18 years suggest that for [...] Source: BBC Health/Scotland It’s not just for currently pregnant women anymore. The Scottish Spina Bifida Association has noticed an alarming trend in the rate of infants born with Spina Bifida. Myelomeningocele (Spina Bifida) is a birth defect in which the backbone and spinal canal do not close before birth. Associated symptoms include hydrocephalus (water on the [...] Source: Reuters Premature babies (low gestational age neonates) are subject to less stress, inflammation and chronic lung disease when 30% oxygen is used instead of 90% oxygen during resuscitation. This according to researchers from University Hospital La Fe, Valencia (yes, like the oranges), Spain. You’d think more oxygen would be better, right? Wrong. The air you are [...] Source: BBC Health News More Premature Babies are surviving childbirth. Good news, right? Well. . . According to medical researchers in Sweden, 70% of infants born from 22 to 26 weeks gestation (40 weeks is full term) survive through at least age one due to advances in medical technology including resuscitation, ventilation and incubation. The [...] Gene mapping continues to batter the nurture end of the nature-nurture argument. In this latest round, a study presented at the 57th Meeting of ACOG (the Ob/Gyn doctors) has linked premature rupture of membranes with a single gene, MMP3. “Prematurity” during pregnancy is between 20 and 37 weeks. 72% of premature deliveries are spontaneous with 30% [...] A little too close to home here, but results of a recent British cohort study suggest that infants who required resuscitation are at increased risk for low IQ scores by 8 years of age. Significantly, the results were said to be similar for those infants with and without encephalopathy. The theory advanced to explain this is [...] Our case:*Mrs. H, a 36 year old woman became pregnant and completed all required prenatal care visits. Despite assurances of a normal and healthy pregnancy, Dr. S decided Mrs. H should be admitted for induction as the baby might be “too large for gestational age.” On the evening of August 12, at approximately 10:16 p.m. [...] |
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