They hypothesized that due to the high risk of lung immaturity at low gestation, testing for fetal lung maturity was not useful before a gestational age of 32 33 weeks.
Luteal support was provided by administering 50 mg of progesterone daily intra-muscularly starting on the day of ICSI and continued, along with E2 valerate, until 12 weeks of gestation, if the pregnancy test was positive.
Women with charts indicating a pregnancy before January 1 2000, miscarriage or abortion before 20 weeks of gestation, recording of positive pregnancy test without the possibility of birth (e.g. because of restricted study time period or future pregnancy) and mastitis without mentioning of breastfeeding, were considered not to be pregnant.
Women were enrolled from November 2001 through October 2003 after testing positive in pregnancy test at about 8 weeks of gestation.
Twenty-one multiparous sows were used in a Latin square design, from days 7 to 90 of gestation, to test the effect of fibre and food levels on feeding motivation and feeding-related stereotypies.
To promote adherence to postpartum testing, requisitions were given to women at 35 40 weeks' gestation for testing between 6 weeks and 6 months postpartum, and they received a phone reminder if testing was not completed by 6 months.
The specific ANC services that we assessed were: blood pressure measurement, tetanus toxoid vaccination, first ANC visit at less than 4 months gestation, urine testing, counseling about danger signs, HIV counseling and testing, iron folate supplementation (≥ 90 days), and at least 2 doses of sulfadoxine/pyramethamine for malaria prevention.
Maternal HIV testing is undertaken at baseline and at 32 weeks of gestation; women testing negative at these time-points will be included in this substudy.
Analyses according to gestation of testing of accuracy of biochemical screening to predict small for gestational age and pre-eclampsia (random effects pooling).
Study Design: Vaginal fluid specimens obtained from 749 women at 24 to 29 weeks of gestation were tested for bacterial vaginosis and assayed for neutrophil defensins.
