Climate Change’s Impact on Babies’ Birthweight for gestational age: Climate change could pose a big risk to Australians’ reproductive health with a new, large-scale Curtin University study revealing a possible link between extreme bioclimatic exposure during pregnancy and babies’ birthweights for gestational age. Researchers from the Curtin School of Population Health examined more than 385,000 […]
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Leading pregnancy and baby loss charity Sands has published the results of a survey, which found the majority of midwives working in NHS trusts and boards are expected to complete vital bereavement care training in their own spare time. Good quality bereavement care is vital for parents who have experienced the loss of a pregnancy, […]
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Diet, malaria and substance use linked to Pacific preterm births. A new Curtin University study has found diet, malaria, substance use and a lack of antenatal care services are linked to one in 10 babies in the Pacific Island region being born preterm and of low birth weight. Published in leading journal The Lancet Regional […]
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COVID-19 infection in pregnancy is not associated with stillbirth or early neonatal death, according to a new study. However the research, from over 4000 pregnant women with suspected or confirmed COVID-19, also found women who had a positive test were more likely to have a premature birth. The research, led by scientists from Imperial College […]
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RSM Presidential address: “The changing shape of the Goddess of Fertility”, the impact of globesity in the gynaecologist’s world Date and time: Fri 23 Oct 2020 from 4:00pm to 5:30pm Join Miss Sangeeta Agnihotri, President-Elect of the Obstetrics & Gynaecology Academic Council, for the Presidential Address to learn more about a brief history of the […]
Britain has a higher rate of stillbirth and neonatal death than many other countries in Europe – in 2016 one in every 139 births ended in stillbirth or neonatal death. The grief and devastation that bereaved parents feel is often compounded by the fact that they never realised a baby could die in modern-day Britain. […]
Pregnant mums, in later pregnancy, shouldn’t sleep on their backs because it may cause problems for the fetus, according to new research published in The Journal of Physiology. This is the first study to monitor unborn babies overnight and at the same time record the mother’s position during sleep. The sleep position of women in […]
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