What is Postpartum haemorrhage? Postpartum haemorrhage (postnatal bleeding) is the excessive bleeding from the woman’s genital tract of about 500mls or more following childbirth. Or it can be seen as any amount of bleeding occurring after the birth of the baby which deteriorates the maternal health state following birth of the baby up to 6 …
What is an ectopic pregnancy? Ectopic pregnancy is otherwise known as extrauterine pregnancy — meaning a pregnancy where implantation occurs at sites other than the uterine cavity. That’s, it is a pregnancy that occurred when the fertilised egg embeds or implants outside the uterus(e.g. ampulla or cervix). It is an emergency obstetric condition that requires …
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In our previous posts, I have discussed pregnancy: signs and symptoms with diagnostic tips, physiological changes during pregnancy, and complications of pregnancy with their treatments. I will discuss today those hormones of pregnancy responsible for inducing physiological changes in a woman’s systems during pregnancy. Pregnancy hormones play these roles in order to make the woman’s …
Definition of Pregnancy This refers to the condition of having a developing embryo or fetus within the body; the state from conception to delivery of the fetus. Medically, it is defined as the union of male and female gametes to zygote which would further undergoes serial cell divisions and be transferred to uterus for implantation …
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