[Evaluation of the health care of diabetic pregnant women and their newborns in 1992-2001 in the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department in Bytom].

The aim of the work was to analyse the basic parameters of perinatal care of diabetic pregnant women, hospitalized in the Clinical Hospital in Bytom in years 1992-2001. The retrospective analysis of 405 diabetic pregnant patients who delivered their babies there was carried out. Diabetes types were following: GDM--44.

[The significance breast feeding on the course of the adaptation period in neonates from multiple pregnancies].

Neonates from multiple pregnancies were evaluated taking into account their condition in the 1st and 5th minutes after birth, their birth weight, time which they spent in the neonatal department and occurrence of complications during the adaptation period, such as respiratory insufficiency, intrauterine infection and hyperbilirubinaemia. On the basis of our research, we think that multiple pregnancy requires particular diagnostics and individualisation of prenatal care. We believe also that neonates from such pregnancies are particularly exposed to development of a severe form of diverse complications.

[Complications of the adaptation period of newborns born to diabetic mothers in years 1993-1998].

Diabetic fetopathy is a complex the pathophysiology of which is not all that clear and that is why all neonates whose mothers develop diabetes demand, regardless of their body weight, from the first hours of their live an intensive neonatal care. In the period from 1993 to 1998 in the Chair of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Bytom 237 babies were born in whom, in the first day of their live, clinical and biochemical screening was carried out in order to determine degree of diabetic fetopathy progression. Summary results of six years care of newborns, born by diabetic mothers.

[Analysis of indications for cesarean section in pregnancy complicated by diabetes mellitus].

The authors analysed a way of pregnancy ending and indications to cesarean section in group 256 diabetic pregnant women. We estimated that percentage for cesarean sections was 51.56%.