Women who have had just one miscarriage are more likely to suffer complications in future pregnancies, research shows.
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Rohan Townsend delivered one of his sisters with instructions from a paramedic over the phone early this morning after his mum went into labour 12 weeks early at their Sunshine Coast home…Read more…

New research has found a critical pathway which triggers early labour. In some cases an infection can increase levels of a protein in the womb known as TLR4 which starts labour.
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A less traumatic way of delivering surfactant, a lung lubricant that premature babies need to help them breathe, could reduce the incidence of respiratory problems they’ll have later, Medical College of Georgia physicians say.
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In a world-first medical procedure, surgeons at Monash Medical Centre in Melbourne, Australia, have fitted the premature baby – whose heart is the size of a small cherry – with the pacemaker outside her body.
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Researchers have found that changing the balance of two hormones could help in controlling the onset of labour in women, a major finding which they claim might prevent premature births
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The Swedish study of more than 500,000 babies showed infants born very early, between 24 and 28 weeks, were more than twice as likely to be admitted to hospital for a psychiatric disorder in their early 20s than those born at full term.
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ScienceDaily (Oct. 18, 2008) — Results of a multicenter study led by Johns Hopkins Children’s Center challenge the longstanding practice of treating premature babies with hydrocortisone, a steroid believed to fight inflammation and prevent lung disease. The researchers found that such treatment offers little or no benefit and that low cortisol levels are not even necessarily harmful.
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