A baby, called Nadia, girl was born in Russia on September 17th weighing 17.5lbs (7.75kg), over two times the average for an infant newborn weight. She was delivered by cesarean section in the Altai region of Siberia. Nadia’s mother, 43, is said to be ‘in shock’ at the size of the baby. Apparently, her eight sisters and three brothers all weighed over 5kg (11lbs) when they were born. When the father was asked for his reaction, he was dumbstruck (speechless).
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In a move the UK government says aims to offer women more choice, local maternity units are being converted to services run by midwives. How safe they are is discussed in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), this week’s issue. Two experts debate the topic - one in favor, and one against.
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Practical and financial constraints on public sector hospitals could be dictating how and when babies are born. Two new studies (1,2) show that as the number of elective, planned caesarean sections rises, more and more babies are born during the week and fewer come into the world at weekends. It appears that hospitals schedule births during the week when they are fully resourced and staff is working ‘normal’ hours at no extra cost.
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Although caesarean sections can “sav[e] lives when performed as an emergency intervention” during childbirth, the procedure can cause “more harm than good when overused,” Jennifer Block, author of the book “Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care,” writes in a Los Angeles Times opinion piece.
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HIV-positive women who become pregnant are less likely to develop AIDS or die of AIDS-related causes than HIV-positive women who do not become pregnant, according to a study published in the Oct. 1 issue of the Journal of Infectious Diseases, VOA News reports (De Capua, VOA News, 9/19).For the study, Timothy Sterling of
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