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Maternal death. A mother dies and is taken by angels as her new child is taken away, a grave from 1863 in Striesener Friedhof in Dresden. Maternal death or maternal mortality is defined in slightly different ways by several different health organizations. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines maternal death as the death of a pregnant ...
Stillbirth is typically defined as fetal death at or after 20 or 28 weeks of pregnancy, depending on the source. [ 1][ 2]: Overview tab, [ 8] It results in a baby born without signs of life. [ 9] A stillbirth can often result in the feeling of guilt or grief in the mother. [ 10] The term is in contrast to miscarriage, which is an early ...
Ectopic pregnancy is a complication of pregnancy in which the embryo attaches outside the uterus. [ 5] Signs and symptoms classically include abdominal pain and vaginal bleeding, but fewer than 50 percent of affected women have both of these symptoms. [ 1] The pain may be described as sharp, dull, or crampy. [ 1]
Severe complications of pregnancy, childbirth, and the puerperium are present in 1.6% of mothers in the US, [6] and in 1.5% of mothers in Canada. [7] In the immediate postpartum period (puerperium), 87% to 94% of women report at least one health problem. [8] [9] Long-term health problems (persisting after six months postpartum) are reported by ...
Coffin birth. Coffin birth, also known as postmortem fetal extrusion, [ 1][ 2] is the expulsion of a nonviable fetus through the vaginal opening of the decomposing body of a deceased pregnant woman due to increasing pressure from intra-abdominal gases. This kind of postmortem delivery occurs very rarely during the decomposition of a body.
Eclampsia is a disorder of pregnancy characterized by seizures in the setting of pre-eclampsia. [ 17] Most women have premonitory signs/symptoms in the hours before the initial seizure. Typically the woman develops hypertension before the onset of a convulsion (seizure). [ 18] Other signs and symptoms include: [ 19]
Postpartum period. The postpartum (or postnatal) period begins after childbirth and is typically considered to last for six weeks. [ 1] There are three distinct phases of the postnatal period; the acute phase, lasting for six to twelve hours after birth; the subacute phase, lasting six weeks; and the delayed phase, lasting up to six months.
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