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  1. India accounts for 27 % of world’s neonatal deaths. Although more Indian women deliver in facilities currently than a decade ago, early neonatal mortality has not declined, likely because of insufficient quali...

    Authors: Somesh Kumar, Vikas Yadav, Sudharsanam Balasubramaniam, Yashpal Jain, Chandra Shekhar Joshi, Kailash Saran and Bulbul Sood
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:345
  2. Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is glucose intolerance with first onset during pregnancy and is associated with serious maternal and fetal complications. The etiology of GDM is not well understood, but sys...

    Authors: Samuel A. Abariga and Brian W. Whitcomb
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:344
  3. Self-rated health status (SRH) can be used as a predictor of morbidity and mortality. Postpartum self-rated health has been used to estimate maternal morbidity and postpartum problems. Reproductive history fac...

    Authors: Jean Paul S. Semasaka, Gunilla Krantz, Manasse Nzayirambaho, Cyprien Munyanshongore, Kristina Edvardsson and Ingrid Mogren
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:340
  4. The ability to identify patients at risk for developing preeclampsia is important for preventing morbidity and mortality in both the mother and child. Although CYFRA 21–1 (a fragment of Cytokeratin 19) is cons...

    Authors: Lorenz Kuessel, Harald Zeisler, Robin Ristl, Julia Binder, Petra Pateisky, Maximilian Schmid, Julian Marschalek, Thomas Perkmann, Helmuth Haslacher and Heinrich Husslein
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:339
  5. The increase rates of cesarean section (CS) occurred at the same period as the dramatic increase of childhood overweight/obesity. In China, cesarean section rates have exponentially increased in the last 20 ye...

    Authors: Erigene Rutayisire, Xiaoyan Wu, Kun Huang, Shuman Tao, Yunxiao Chen and Fangbiao Tao
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:338
  6. The Baby Basket initiative was developed by Apunipima Cape York Health Council (ACYHC) to address poor maternal and child health (MCH) in Cape York, the northernmost region of Queensland. While positive outcom...

    Authors: Kim Edmunds, Andrew Searles, Johanna Neville, Rod Ling, Janya McCalman and Jacki Mein
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:337
  7. Most European and North American clinical practice guidelines recommend screening for asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) as a routine pregnancy test. Antibiotic treatment of ASB in pregnant women is supposed to re...

    Authors: Konstanze Angelescu, Barbara Nussbaumer-Streit, Wiebke Sieben, Fülöp Scheibler and Gerald Gartlehner
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:336
  8. McRoberts’ and suprapubic pressure are often recommended as the initial choices of manoeuvres to manage shoulder dystocia, as they are believed to be less invasive compared to other manoeuvres. However, their ...

    Authors: Zara Lin Zau Lok, Yvonne Kwun Yue Cheng and Tak Yeung Leung
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:334
  9. Urinary incontinence is defined as a complaint of any involuntary leakage of urine. During pregnancy, the prevalence of urinary incontinence ranges from 32 to 64 %. Different factors like demographic factors, ...

    Authors: Abey Bekele, Mulat Adefris and Senait Demeke
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:333
  10. Mistreatment of women in healthcare settings during childbirth has been gaining attention globally. Mistreatment during childbirth directly and indirectly affects health outcomes, patient satisfaction, and the...

    Authors: May Sudhinaraset, Emily Treleaven, Jason Melo, Kanksha Singh and Nadia Diamond-Smith
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:332
  11. By increased concerns about the accuracy of the traditional methods to predict outcomes after induction of labor, developing new standards has a great clinical importance. Here, we compared the predictive valu...

    Authors: Soghra Khazardoost, Fahimeh Ghotbizadeh Vahdani, Sahar Latifi, Sedighe Borna, Maryam Tahani, Mohammad Ali Rezaei and Masoomeh Shafaat
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:330
  12. The use of interventions in childbirth has increased the past decades. There is concern that some women might receive more interventions than they really need. For low-risk women, midwife-led birth settings ma...

    Authors: N. Bolten, A. de Jonge, E. Zwagerman, P. Zwagerman, T. Klomp, J. J. Zwart and C. C. Geerts
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:329
  13. Women, who have been subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM), can suffer serious and irreversible physical, psychological and psychosexual complications. They have more adverse obstetric outcomes as compa...

    Authors: Nesrin Varol, Angela Dawson, Sabera Turkmani, John J. Hall, Susie Nanayakkara, Greg Jenkins, Caroline S. E. Homer and Kevin McGeechan
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:328
  14. Domestic violence is a global health problem as well as a violation against human rights. The aim of this study was to explore prevalence and incidence of domestic violence during pregnancy and 1 to 1.5 years pos...

    Authors: Hafrún Finnbogadóttir and Anna-Karin Dykes
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:327

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:383

  15. Physical activity (PA) during pregnancy has been shown to be associated with several positive effects for mother, fetus, and offspring. Heart rate variability (HRV) is a noninvasive and surrogate marker to det...

    Authors: Pavel Dietz, Estelle D. Watson, Matteo C. Sattler, Wolfgang Ruf, Sylvia Titze and Mireille van Poppel
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:326
  16. To date, several studies concerning the effects of induced abortion (IA) on women’s later psychosocial well-being and future delivery complications have been published. However, the lack of reports on woman’s ...

    Authors: Susanna Holmlund, Tommi Kauko, Jaakko Matomäki, Miia Tuominen, Juha Mäkinen and Päivi Rautava
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:325
  17. The WHO Maternal Near Miss (MNM) approach was developed to evaluate and improve quality of obstetric care worldwide. This study aimed to study the incidence of MNM and quality of care at a district hospital in...

    Authors: Richard Kalisa, Stephen Rulisa, Thomas van den Akker and Jos van Roosmalen
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:324
  18. In 2010 the government of the republic of Zambia stopped training traditional birth attendants and forbade them from conducting home deliveries as they were viewed as contributing to maternal mortality. This s...

    Authors: Chilala Cheelo, Selestine Nzala and Joseph M. Zulu
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:323
  19. Since 2006, Burkina Faso has subsidized the cost of caesarean sections to increase their accessibility. Caesareans are performed by obstetricians, general practitioners, and nurses trained in emergency surgery...

    Authors: Charles Kaboré, Valéry Ridde, Séni Kouanda, Ludovic Queuille, Paul-André Somé, Isabelle Agier and Alexandre Dumont
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:322
  20. It is well documented that pregnant women experience increased worry and uncertainty following a high-risk prenatal screening result. While waiting for diagnostic results this worry continues to linger. It has...

    Authors: Stina Lou, Camilla P. Nielsen, Lone Hvidman, Olav B. Petersen and Mette B. Risør
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:321
  21. Low birth weight (LBW, < 2500 g) affects one third of newborn infants in rural south Asia and compromises child survival, infant growth, educational performance and economic prospects. We aimed to assess the i...

    Authors: Naomi M. Saville, Bhim P. Shrestha, Sarah Style, Helen Harris-Fry, B. James Beard, Aman Sengupta, Sonali Jha, Anjana Rai, Vikas Paudel, Anni-Maria Pulkki-Brannstrom, Andrew Copas, Jolene Skordis-Worrall, Bishnu Bhandari, Rishi Neupane, Joanna Morrison, Lu Gram…
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:320
  22. The safety of vaginal breech delivery has been debated for decades. Although it has been shown to predispose infants to immediate depression, several observational studies have also shown that attempting vagin...

    Authors: Elli Toivonen, Outi Palomäki, Heini Huhtala and Jukka Uotila
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:319
  23. The transport of pregnant women to an appropriate health facility plays a pivotal role in preventing maternal deaths. In India, state-run call-centre based ambulance systems (‘108’ and ‘102’), along with distr...

    Authors: Samiksha Singh, Pat Doyle, Oona M. R. Campbell, G. V. R. Rao and G. V. S. Murthy
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:318
  24. Gestational weight gain (GWG) is an important predictor of short and long-term pregnancy outcomes for both mother and child, and women who set a GWG goal are more likely to gain within recommended ranges. Litt...

    Authors: Shaniece Criss, Emily Oken, Lauren Guthrie and Marie-France Hivert
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:317
  25. To analyse the maternal mortality ratio, demographic and pregnancy related details in women who suffered a fatal amniotic fluid embolism (AFE) in China.

    Authors: Yi Mu, Nolan McDonnell, Zhuoyang Li, Juan Liang, Yanping Wang, Jun Zhu and Elizabeth Sullivan
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:316
  26. Family culture and beliefs are passed through the generations within families and influence what constitutes appropriate infant care. This includes infant feeding decisions where a family history and support n...

    Authors: K. L. Darwent, R. J. McInnes and V. Swanson
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:315
  27. Timely initiation of breastfeeding within one hour after birth and exclusive breastfeeding is recommended for the first six months of infant life along with continuation of breastfeeding up to two years. Timel...

    Authors: Tilahun Tewabe
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:314
  28. The burden of pregnancy complications associated with well defined, already established systemic rheumatic diseases preexisting pregnancy such as rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus or scleroder...

    Authors: Arsenio Spinillo, Fausta Beneventi, Elena Locatelli, Vèronique Ramoni, Roberto Caporali, Claudia Alpini, Giulia Albonico, Chiara Cavagnoli and Carlomaurizio Montecucco
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:313
  29. Detection of Ureaplasma, Mycoplasma and Candida spp. in the vagina during pregnancy has previously been associated with preterm birth (PTB). However, the prevalence of these microorganisms and the associated obst...

    Authors: Matthew S. Payne, Demelza J. Ireland, Rory Watts, Elizabeth A. Nathan, Lucy L. Furfaro, Matthew W. Kemp, Jeffrey A. Keelan and John P. Newnham
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:312
  30. India is experiencing an epidemic of obesity-hyperglycaemia, which coincides with child bearing age for women. The epidemic can be sustained and augmented through transgenerational transmission of adiposity an...

    Authors: Giridhara R. Babu, GVS Murthy, R. Deepa, Yamuna, Prafulla, H. Kiran Kumar, Maithili Karthik, Keerti Deshpande, Sara E. Benjamin Neelon, D. Prabhakaran, Anura Kurpad and Sanjay Kinra
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:311
  31. Intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) is a major risk factor for perinatal mortality and morbidity. Thus, there is a compelling need to introduce sensitive measures to detect IUGR fetuses. Routine third trime...

    Authors: Jens Henrichs, Viki Verfaille, Laura Viester, Myrte Westerneng, Bert Molewijk, Arie Franx, Henriette van der Horst, Judith E. Bosmans, Ank de Jonge and Petra Jellema
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:310
  32. Early infancy is a high-risk period for severe acute respiratory infection (ARI), particularly in low-income countries with resource-limited health systems. Lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) is commonly...

    Authors: Shaun K. Morris, Lisa G. Pell, Mohammed Ziaur Rahman, Michelle C. Dimitris, Abdullah Mahmud, M. Munirul Islam, Tahmeed Ahmed, Eleanor Pullenayegum, Tahmid Kashem, Shaila S. Shanta, Jonathan Gubbay, Eszter Papp, Michelle Science, Stanley Zlotkin and Daniel E. Roth
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:309
  33. Cervical incompetence is an important cause of miscarriage and premature birth and polycystic ovary syndrome is a heterogeneous endocrine disorder that is the most common cause of anovulatory infertility and e...

    Authors: Yongqing Wang, Xunke Gu, Liyuan Tao and Yangyu Zhao
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:308
  34. Facility based delivery for mothers is one of the proven interventions to reduce maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. This study identified women’s reasons for seeking to give birth in a health facil...

    Authors: Tigest Shifraw, Yemane Berhane, Hanna Gulema, Tamil Kendall and Anne Austin
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:307
  35. From a life course perspective, pregnancy leads to a rise in nutrition awareness and an increase in information flow in favour of adopting healthier eating behaviours. This qualitative study was designed to be...

    Authors: Clélia M. Bianchi, Jean-François Huneau, Gaëlle Le Goff, Eric O. Verger, François Mariotti and Patricia Gurviez
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:306
  36. Maternal smoking can cause health complications in pregnancy. Particulate matter (PM2.5) metrics applied to second hand smoke (SHS) concentrations provide indoor air quality (IAQ) measurements and have been used ...

    Authors: Heather Morgan, Elizabeth Treasure, Mo Tabib, Majella Johnston, Chris Dunkley, Deborah Ritchie, Sean Semple and Steve Turner
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:305
  37. Objectives: To determine whether the incidence of tuberculosis with pregnancy is more common than would be expected from the crude birth rate; to see whether there is significant delay in the diagnosis of tube...

    Authors: Graham H. Bothamley, Cordula Ehlers, Irina Salonka, Alena Skrahina, Angels Orcau, Luigi R. Codecasa, Maurizio Ferrarese, Dragica Pesut, Ivan Solovic, Andrii Dudnyk, Luis Anibarro, Claudia Denkinger, Lorenzo Guglielmetti, Inge Muylle and Marco Confalonieri
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:304
  38. Iodine deficiency and thyroid dysfunction during pregnancy is associated with number of adverse outcomes that includes mental and physical disabilities creating a huge human and economic burden in later life. ...

    Authors: Eric De Zoysa, Manjula Hettiarachchi and Chandrani Liyanage
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:303
  39. The maternal cardiovascular system adapts quickly when embryo implantation is recognized by the body. Those adaptations play an important role, as a normal cardiovascular adaptation is a requirement for a norm...

    Authors: Sharona Vonck, Anneleen Simone Staelens, Ine Bollen, Lien Broekx and Wilfried Gyselaers
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:302
  40. Depressive symptoms during pregnancy can have multiple adverse effects on perinatal outcomes, including maternal morbidity and mortality. The potential impact of antenatal depressive symptoms on maternal healt...

    Authors: Tesera Bitew, Charlotte Hanlon, Eskinder Kebede, Girmay Medhin and Abebaw Fekadu
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:301
  41. Mulago National Referral Hospital has the largest maternity unit in sub-Saharan Africa. It is situated in Uganda, where the maternal mortality ratio is 310 per 100,000 live births. In 2010 a ‘Traffic Light Sys...

    Authors: Jennifer Forshaw, Stephanie Raybould, Emilie Lewis, Mark Muyingo, Andrew Weeks, Kate Reed, Logan Manikam and Josaphat Byamugisha
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:300
  42. Obstetric fistula is a serious medical condition which affects women in low income countries. Despite the progress of research on fistula, there is little data on long term follow-up after surgical repair. The...

    Authors: Alexandre Delamou, Therese Delvaux, Abdoul Habib Beavogui, Alain Levêque, Wei-Hong Zhang and Vincent De Brouwere
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:299
  43. Threatened miscarriage is a common complication of early pregnancy increasing the risk of miscarriage or premature labour. Currently there is limited evidence to recommend any biomedical pharmacological or sel...

    Authors: Debra Betts, Caroline A. Smith and Hannah G. Dahlen
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:298

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2017 17:27

  44. Existing studies of delivery care in Nigeria have identified socioeconomic and cultural factors as the primary determinants of health facility delivery. However, no study has investigated the association betwe...

    Authors: Anastasia J. Gage, Onyebuchi Ilombu and Akanni Ibukun Akinyemi
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:297
  45. According to World Health Organization (WHO) estimates, 80 % of the population living in rural areas in developing countries depends on traditional medicine for their health needs, including use during pregnan...

    Authors: Richard Nyeko, Nazarius Mbona Tumwesigye and Abdullah Ali Halage
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:296
  46. Each year, about 5.3 million babies die in the perinatal period. Understanding of causes of death is critical for prevention, yet there is no globally acceptable classification system. Instead, many disparate ...

    Authors: Susannah Hopkins Leisher, Zheyi Teoh, Hanna Reinebrant, Emma Allanson, Hannah Blencowe, Jan Jaap Erwich, J. Frederik Frøen, Jason Gardosi, Sanne Gordijn, A. Metin Gülmezoglu, Alexander E. P. Heazell, Fleurisca Korteweg, Joy Lawn, Elizabeth M. McClure, Robert Pattinson, Gordon C. S. Smith…
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:295
  47. While spirituality is well described in end-of-life care literature, research on its place in the delivery room remains largely limited to mother-oriented qualitative studies focusing on life-threatening situa...

    Authors: Marie-Noëlle Bélanger-Lévesque, Marc Dumas, Simon Blouin and Jean-Charles Pasquier
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:294
  48. Electronic health registries – eRegistries - can systematically collect relevant information at the point of care for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH). However, a suite of process and outc...

    Authors: Vicki Flenady, Aleena M. Wojcieszek, Ingvild Fjeldheim, Ingrid K. Friberg, Victoria Nankabirwa, Jagrati V. Jani, Sonja Myhre, Philippa Middleton, Caroline Crowther, David Ellwood, David Tudehope, Robert Pattinson, Jacqueline Ho, Jiji Matthews, Aurora Bermudez Ortega, Mahima Venkateswaran…
    Citation: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:293

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