Mothers recorded parity (1/2/≥3), and gestational age (in completed weeks), birth weight (in grams), and gender of the infant.
Average recorded parity was 4.2, with a range of 1 to 12 children.
Of the 29 case records reporting parity, 17 (59%) were grand multiparas and 8 (28%) were primiparas.
Supplementary information was retrieved from the medical records including parity, numbers of previous abortions, abortion method, place of abortion (home or at the clinic), antidepressant use, and psychosocial support during the abortion process.
Information abstracted from maternal medical records included parity; type of delivery; gestational age at delivery; use of medications at the time of admission for delivery, use of alcohol, tobacco, or drugs of abuse during pregnancy; presence of selected medical conditions during pregnancy (including HIV/AIDS); and discharge ICD9 codes.
The number of children recorded likely included the current CS birth, so that some of the women recorded as parity one were probably misclassified and were instead nulliparas delivering their first child.
The report also states that unhappiness is strongly associated with inequality, so no wonder we Danes are happy with our strong record of parity.
During the routine antenatal appointments at our five study centers, the following details were recorded: age, parity, obstetric history, family history of diabetes, BMI, ethnicity, and blood pressure.
Datasets from first and later parity records contained 43 135 and 330 753 records respectively, spanning the years 1995 to 2009.
And as Louise Tickle reported this week, some of the fastest growing higher education systems have the poorest records on gender parity.
