Our purpose in the present study is to analyze the opinions of women regarding the factors that support and hinder their breastfeeding. This is a phenomenological and qualitative study. The present study included 32 breastfeeding women who live in different provinces in the Central Anatolia Region of Turkey. The data were collected using a semi-structured interview form and were evaluated using the content analysis method. Three themes and ten sub-themes about women's experience on breastfeeding their babies and factors affecting their breastfeeding were found. The themes identified were: motherhood, restriction, patriarchy.Supplemental data for this article is available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/07399332.2021.1935958 .
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J Med Syst
January 2025
Department of Pharmacology, MGM Medical College & Hospital, MGM Institute of Health Sciences (MGMIHS), Nerul, Navi Mumbai, 400706, India.
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Cochrane Denmark and Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine Odense (CEBMO), University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
Rationale: Postpartum iron deficiency anaemia is caused by antenatal iron deficiency or excessive blood loss at delivery and might affect up to 50% of labouring women in low- and middle-income countries. Effective and safe treatment during early motherhood is important for maternal well-being and newborn care. Treatment options include oral iron supplementation, intravenous iron, erythropoietin, and red blood cell transfusion.
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October 2024
Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
Background: Across the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS), women with a Body Mass Index (BMI) of > 30 face restrictions accessing In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) treatment. This study asks: what are the (un)expected and (un)intended harms and consequences experienced by women restricted from accessing NHS-funded IVF due to BMI threshold criteria?
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Front Public Health
August 2024
Department of Women & Children's Health, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
Introduction: Healthcare services for pregnant and postpartum ('perinatal') women were reconfigured significantly at the advent and for the duration of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, and despite the United Kingdom announcing 'Freedom Day' on 19 July 2021 (whereafter all legal lockdown-related restrictions were lifted), restrictions to maternity (antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal) services remained. This study presents data from eight perinatal women about their experiences of psychosocial wellbeing and maternity care in the post-'Freedom Day' epoch.
Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted virtually, with data recorded, transcribed, and analysed by hand.
JAMA Surg
October 2024
Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics, Madison.
Importance: Childbearing has been a particular barrier to successful recruitment and retention of women in surgery. Pregnant surgeons are more likely to have major pregnancy complications, such as preterm delivery, intrauterine growth restriction, infertility, and miscarriage, compared with nonsurgeons. The average obstetric complication rate for surgeons ranges between 25% and 82% in the literature and is considerably higher than that in the general US population at 5% to 15%.
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