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Healthful lifestyle interventions consistently reduce gestational weight gain across various subgroups of women and significantly lower the odds of cesarean section without adversely affecting offspring outcomes

C-Section, GDM Rates Down With Maternal Lifestyle Interventions

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And no adverse effect of diet, exercise interventions on offspring outcomes
Teen births in the United States dropped to a record low last year

CDC: Teen Birth Rates, Overall Birth Rates Continue to Drop

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Preterm births, however, increased for the second year, increasing 2 percent from 2015 to 2016
Women are routinely prescribed more opioid medications than they need after Cesarean sections

Opioids Tend to Be Over-Prescribed After Cesarean Section

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And pills women don't use are often not discarded
Participation in a mindfulness-based childbirth preparation course

Mindfulness-Based Childbirth Prep Course Found Beneficial

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Improvement noted in women's childbirth-related appraisals and psychological functioning
The rate of delivery within 24 hours is increased with induction with concurrent oxytocin infusion added to preinduction cervical ripening with a Foley catheter versus Foley followed by oxytocin

Induction With Concurrent Oxytocin, Foley Speeds Delivery

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Concurrent oxytocin added to Foley increases rate of delivery in 24 hours in nulliparous, multiparous
Hospital cesarean-section rates vary widely across the United States

Too Few U.S. Hospitals Have C-Section Rates Below HHS Target

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Consumer Reports finds rates for low-risk births vary from 7 to 64.6 percent across the United States
Prophylactic placement of internal iliac artery balloon catheters does not impact outcomes for women with placenta accreta

Iliac Artery Balloon Catheter Little Benefit in Placenta Accreta

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Prophylactic placement of balloon catheters doesn't reduce intra-op hemorrhage, cesarean hysterectomy
More than one in five maternal deaths in Illinois in 2002 to 2011 were attributable to cardiovascular disease

Over 20 Percent of Maternal Mortality in Illinois Due to CVD

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22.2 percent of women died of cardiovascular causes, with cardiomyopathy the most common etiology
Implementation of a program denying payment to providers for unnecessary early elective delivery is associated with a reduction in the rate of early elective deliveries

Denying Payment Reduces Rate of Early Elective Deliveries

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Implementation of policy by Texas Medicaid led to reduction in early delivery rates by up to 14 percent
Catastrophic neonatal outcome is associated with a transient increase in the rate of unscheduled cesarean deliveries

Catastrophic Neonatal Outcome Ups Unscheduled C-Section Rates

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Rate increased after medical mismanagement-linked hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy