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OBGYN.net Pregnancy and Birth Section

Providing educational resources for women, concerned friends and family members, obstetricians, midwives, and the entire pregnancy, labor and delivery team.

If you have questions about pregnancy & birth, you can get expert answers and interact with others at the OBGYN.net Women's Health Forum Research the 500,000+ Q&A already there. Here are some current topics being discussed:

PREGNANCY: Extreme fatigue 8 months pregnant! - J.
PREGNANCY: Miscarriage at 13 weeks - S.
PREGNANCY: Doubting psychological pregnancy - Y.
MRI - leiomyosarcoma or pregnancy-related changes? - G.
Pregnancy and fibroid -L.
PREGNANCY: Slow heartbeat at 6w6d - what does this mean for the baby? - B.
PREGNANCY: bicornuate uterus and pregnancy - A.
PREGNANCY: CERVICAL PREGNANCY - K.

Research the wealth of answers on our Pregnancy and Birth Forum. This is closed for new discussions but contains a great wealth of information and is available for your research.

Topics for Women & Patients

Prenatal Learning – What Is It and When Does It Begin? - Lisa Jarrett, President, BabyPlus Prenatal, LLC and mother of seven

Molar Pregnancy -- Ashley Hill, MD
Molar pregnancies are an uncommon and very frightening complication of pregnancy. The formal medical term for a molar pregnancy is “hydatidiform mole. ...

Osteoporosis Section: Ask the Expert Archive
Treatment of osteoporosis in the face of possible pregnancy · Breastfeeding with osteoporosis · How risky would a pregnancy be for someone in whom ...

An Edited Excerpt from "Your Developing Baby" by P. M. Doubilet, MD, PhD, C. B. Benson, MD & Roanne Weisman

What You Can Do To Keep Germs From Harming You and Your Baby - A Prenatal Pamphlet from the CDC (.pdf 34kb)

Recurrent Miscarriage (Pregnancy Loss) Part 1
Recurrent Miscarriage (Pregnancy Loss) Part 2

Tell me about contraception after pregnancy.

We have many new images that have been added to our new Image Library. These are Fetal Anomalies. Please note that these are graphic in nature.

Webcasts and Education

Speculum Examination Training presented by The American College of Nurse-Midwives

Leslie Ludka, CNM, MSN We invite you to participate in a free WebCast focused on Speculum Examination Training for pregnant women. This skill can be used when gathering information to help make a clinical diagnosis. Leslie Ludka, CNM, MSN, will share important information on assessment of the patient and guide the viewer step by step through the examination while giving helpful insights to the procedure. 1 CEU is available to nurses who successfully complete the presentation. This program is supported by an educational grant from Hologic.

Preterm Birth and Fetal Fibronectin: Assessing the Risk Along the Continuum

Epidemiology of Preterm Birth
Ashley Roman, MD Ashley Roman, MD
Assistant Professor
of Ob / Gyn
NYU School of Medicine
New York, NY, USA

Fetal Fibronectin as a Predictor of Preterm Birth
Andrei Rebarber, MD Andrei Rebarber, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor of Ob / Gyn
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
New York, NY, USA

Articles for Professional Education:

Adhesion-Prevention Strategy in C-Sections: Focus on Risk Reduction

The Relationship Between Placental Location and Fetal Gender (Ramzi’s Method): Can Placental / Chorionic villi Location be used as Indicator for Fetal Gender at Six Weeks Gestation using 2-D and Color Flow Sonography?

Maternal Risk Factors for Potential Maltreatment Deaths Among Healthy Singleton and Twin Infants

A Case Report: Delta Superinfection and Pregnancy

Prevalence of the Bacterial Vaginosis and Group B Streptococcus in Term and Pre-term Pregnancies

A Mother's Story - M. Perhach about her first-hand experience with GBS and her efforts to raise awareness of this serious bacterial infection.

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OBGYN.net provides the most current research and articles for Medical Professionals on the topic of pregnancy & birth and the OB-GYN-L is a forum just for professionals to post to each other.

Interviews

28th Annual Meeting of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine

11th World Congress on Controversies in Obstetrics, Gynecology and Infertility

The Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine in partnership with OBGYN.net is pleased to welcome you to the online webcast of selected presentations from our 2007 Annual Congress.

Educational Tutorials

Pyometra: Diagnosis and Management - Uma Gupta, MD & Dr. N. K. Gupta
Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy - Professor Mohammad Emam
Update on Prediction & Prevention of Preeclampsia - Professor Aboubakr Elnashar
Cesarean Section: Simplified Technique - Muhammad El Hennawy, MD
Nausea & Vomiting in Pregnancy - Muhammad Emam, MD
Anatomical & Physiological Adaptation to Normal Pregnancy - Heba M. Ismail

Visit our extensive collection of educational tutorials from global experts. Submit your own View the full listing of featured Pregnancy & Birth books for Medical Professionals & Women Patients. Check the OBGYN.net/CRC Press bookstore for textbooks