The risk factors among nulliparas included advanced maternal age, increased biparietal diameter, more than 10 hours in the first stage of labour and increased neonatal weight. Senior midwives and ...

Head growth of the fetus and infant is largely determined by brain growth. The brain reaches 90% of adult size by 1 year of age; it is 95% of its ultimate adult size by 6 years of age and growth ...

Women's Health. 2010;6(6):861-869. Shoulder dystocia is an uncommon and usually unpredictable event. Maternal diabetes, macrosomia, obesity and prior shoulder dystocia represent the largest ...