Word: deliveryism
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THE BIRTH OF A NEWBORN IS usually a joyful event in the life of a family. The memory of nine often uncomfortable months--not to mention the intense effort of labor and delivery--begins to fade and the focus shifts to a wrinkled little miracle with 10 impossibly cute fingers...
Much of the jump in premature births in the U.S. can be tied to the growing number of multiple births--twins, triplets or more--that result from infertility treatments. If you have one baby, your chance of delivering prematurely is just over 10%, according to Dr. Charles Lockwood at Yale...
Assisted reproduction isn't the only problem. Doctors have long known that smoking, uterine infection, high blood pressure and a prior history of preterm delivery also place an expectant mother at greater risk of delivering early. They're looking into the possibility that other factors, such as stress, diet (both...
Doctors admit that some of their best ideas for preventing early delivery haven't worked very well. A drug called Ritodrine, which was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1980, successfully stops preterm labor in many women, but subsequent studies have shown that it has no overall effect...
One intervention has shown some promise in early trials of women with a history of premature delivery and no other known risk factors. Injecting these women once a week with the hormone progesterone reduces their chance of delivering early by a third. Researchers still don't quite understand why it...