We have been reminded many times in the medical and lay press about the views of London female obstetricians choosing elective caesarean section for non-medical reasons. This paper asked Scottish female obstetricians for their personal choice regarding delivery and showed that only 15.5% would choose elective caesarean section compared with 31% and 21% in two surveys of London female obstetricians. None of the women in this group who had had a vaginal delivery would choose elective section.
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J Coll Physicians Surg Pak
January 2025
Department of Anaesthesia, Faculty of Medicine, Karamanoglu Mehmetbey University, Karaman, Turkiye.
Objective: To test the short and long-term effects of consuming carbohydrate-rich beverages on patient-centred outcomes after caesarean delivery under spinal anaesthesia.
Study Design: A prospective randomised controlled study. Place and Duration of the Study: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Karaman Training and Research Hospital, Karaman, Turkiye, between May 2023 and February 2024.
PLoS Med
January 2025
Region Västra Götaland, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Background: The risk of perinatal death and severe neonatal morbidity increases gradually after 41 weeks of pregnancy. We evaluated maternal and perinatal outcomes after a national shift from expectancy and induction at 42+0 weeks to a more active management of late-term pregnancies in Sweden offering induction from 41+0 weeks or an individual plan aiming at birth or active labour no later than 42+0 weeks.
Methods And Findings: Women with a singleton pregnancy lasting 41+0 weeks or more with a fetus in cephalic presentation (N = 150,370) were included in a nationwide, register-based cohort study.
Obstet Gynecol
January 2025
Riley Children's, the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Indiana University Health Fetal Center, and the Department of Biostatistics and Health Data Science, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana; the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Surgery, Fetal Care and Surgery Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Brown University Medical School, Providence, Rhode Island; the Fetal Medicine Unit, St George's Hospital, St George's University of London, London, United Kingdom; the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
Objective: To investigate short-term maternal and neonatal outcomes in individuals with twin pregnancies and two prior cesarean deliveries who underwent trial of labor after cesarean (TOLAC).
Methods: A cross-sectional study of live-birth data was conducted between 2014 and 2021 in the United States. Individuals with more than two prior cesarean deliveries and multiple gestations higher than twins were excluded.
J Affect Disord
January 2025
Lusófona University, HEI-Lab: Digital Human-Environment Interaction Labs, Portugal. Electronic address:
Assessing Fear of Birth Scale's (FOBS) psychometric properties in the perinatal period using multicountry data is a step toward effectively screen clinically significant fear of childbirth (FOC) in maternal healthcare settings. FOBS psychometric properties were analyzed in women in the perinatal period using data from Australia, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, and Portugal. FOBS' reliability, criterion (known group and convergent), concurrent, predictive, and clinical validity were analyzed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Matern Fetal Neonatal Med
December 2025
Department of Vascular Surgery & Interventional Therapy, Fujian Maternity and Child Health Hospital, College of Clinical Medicine for Obstetrics & Gynecology and Pediatrics, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China.
Background: Pregnancy-associated venous thromboembolism (PA-VTE) seriously threatens maternal health. We aimed to investigate the clinical characteristics, risk factors, treatments, and pregnancy outcomes to better prevent and treat PA-VTE.
Methods: PA-VTE patients were selected from 171,898 women who were registered in the Department of Obstetrics of Fujian Maternity and Child Health Hospital from January 2014 to August 2023 and delivered to calculate the incidence.
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