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U.S. Women in Labor Longer Than They Were 50 Years Ago
Posted 30 Mar 2012 by Drugs.com
FRIDAY, March 30 – American women today are spending about two hours more in labor during childbirth than women did 50 years ago, a new report says. The report's authors said several factors helped to explain the longer labors. "Older maternal age and increased BMI (body-mass index, a ratio of weight to height) accounted for a part of the increase. We believe that some aspects of delivery-room practice are also responsible for this increase," lead author Dr. Katherine Laughon, an epidemiologist with the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, said during a Friday afternoon news conference. For the study, Laughon's team collected data on nearly 40,000 women who gave birth between 1959 and 1966, and compared those findings with nearly 100,000 women who delivered between 2002 and 2008. The researchers found women in the 21st century were in labor ... Read more
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Epidural Plus Fever in Mom May Raise Risks for Baby
Posted 3 Feb 2012 by Drugs.com
FRIDAY. Feb. 3 – The babies of women who develop an epidural-related fever while in labor are at greater risk of having problems right at birth, including poor muscle tone, breathing difficulties, low Apgar scores and seizures, a new study suggests. The Apgar score is a test used to measure a child's skin color, pulse and overall vigor in the moments after birth. Prior research has found an association between epidurals – or anesthesia delivered into the epidural space around the spinal cord – and fevers in some moms during labor. This study, which involved more than 3,200 women delivering a full-term baby at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston in 2000, found a similar association. Just over 19 percent of those who had an epidural developed a temperature of greater than 100.4 degrees F compared with just 2.4 percent of women who went without the painkiller. The higher a woman's ... Read more
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