Pregnancy and childbirth

Pregnancy and childbirth
Simone D. McCourtie/World Bank

This section includes Cochrane reviews and commentaries on various aspects of pregnancy and childbirth such as antenatal care, medical problems in pregnancy, diagnostic approaches for fetal diseases and the course and conduct of normal childbirth as well as interventions to deal with different situations during childbirth.

- General antenatal care
- Nutrition during pregnancy
- Miscarriage

- Hypertension during pregnancy
- Anaemia during pregnancy

- Prenatal diagnosis

- Prelabour rupture of membranes - Preterm birth
- Prolonged pregnancy
- Infection during pregnancy

- Misoprostol for induction of labour - Misoprostol for induction of labour to terminate pregnancy in the second or third trimester for women with a fetal anomaly or after intrauterine fetal death

- Care during labour - 1st stage
- Babies with compromised conditions during labour
- Abnormal presentations and positions of the baby
- Care during labour - 2nd stage
- Perineal trauma
- Caesarean section
- Care during labour - 3rd stage
- Postpartum haemorrhage and retained placenta

- Care after childbirth

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