Pregnancy mobile app use: A survey of health information practices and quality awareness among pregnant women in Australia.

Background: Health-related mobile applications (apps) have the potential to improve health knowledge and promote healthy behaviours during pregnancy. Pregnancy apps are popular and extensively used by consumers.

Objective: This study investigates the usage patterns, decision-making criteria and concerns regarding the quality and credibility of health-related information within pregnancy mobile applications.

Running for two (or three!): the journey of an ultramarathoner across two pregnancies.

There is a lack of evidence regarding the safety of long-duration and vigorous-intensity physical activity during pregnancy, such as that required during an ultramarathon. This case study is the first to examine the training, performance, health, and delivery outcomes for an ultramarathoner across two successive pregnancies (one twin and one singleton) that were delivered when the athlete was 41 and 43 yr, respectively. During her twin pregnancy, she ran an average of 91.

Barriers and enablers encountered by elite athletes during preconception and pregnancy: a mixed-methods systematic review.

Objective: To synthesise the existing literature relating to barriers and enablers encountered by elite athletes during preconception and pregnancy for the purpose of identifying key recommendations and actionable steps to inform the development of pregnancy guidelines to support preconception and pregnancy in national sporting organisations.

Design: Mixed-methods systematic review with thematic analysis.

Data Sources: Four databases (Medline, SPORTDiscus, PsycINFO and CINAHL) were systematically searched to identify relevant studies, along with reference lists of included studies until 3 April 2023.

Prioritise safety, optimise success! Return to rugby postpartum.

Pregnancy and childbirth involve substantial physical, physiological and psychological changes. As such, postpartum rugby players should be supported and appropriately prepared to return to the demands of rugby alongside the additional demands of motherhood. This review aims to discuss specific perinatal considerations that inform a rugby player's readiness to return-to-sport postpartum and present an approach to rehabilitation.

Global estimation of range resolved thermodynamic profiles from micropulse differential absorption lidar.

We demonstrate thermodynamic profile estimation with data obtained using the MicroPulse DIAL such that the retrieval is entirely self contained. The only external input is surface meteorological variables obtained from a weather station installed on the instrument. The estimator provides products of temperature, absolute humidity and backscatter ratio such that cross dependencies between the lidar data products and raw observations are accounted for and the final products are self consistent.