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Quilligan EJ. 1983. Pregnancy, birth, and the infant. Bethesda, MD: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 69 pp. (Child health and human development: An evaluation and assessment of the state of the science; v. II)

Annotation: This report discusses maternal medical disorders during pregnancy, adolescent pregnancy, environmental risk factors in pregnancy, evaluation of fetal status, normal and premature labor, fetal distress and hypoxic birth injury, respiratory distress syndrome, neonatal infections, erythroblastosis fetalis and bilirubin encephalopathy, extreme prematurity, intracranial hemorrhage, persistent fetal circulation, necrotizing enterocolitis, metabolic disorders in the infant, and neonatal pharmacology. Research recommendations are provided.

Keywords: Adolescent pregnancy, Birth injuries, Environmental exposure, Fetal erythroblastosis, Infants, Labor, Metabolic diseases, Neonatal diseases, Persistent fetal circulation syndrome, Pharmacology, Pregnancy, Premature labor, Prematurity, Research, Respiratory distress syndrome

Symposium on Malnutrition and Infection during Pregnancy (1974: Guatemala City). 1975. Malnutrition and infection during pregnancy: Determinants of growth and development of the child. Washington, DC: Agency for International Development, 75 pp. (American Journal of Diseases of Children; v. 129, no. 4, no.5)

Annotation: These papers discuss nutrition individuality; placental function and malnutrition; nutrition of pregnant women in Thailand, Central America, Panama, and industrialized societies; maternal nutrition and fetal growth in developing societies; fetal defense mechanisms; routes of fetal infection and mechanisms of fetal damage; fetal malnutrition and postnatal immunocompetence; diagnosis of chronic perinatal infections; nutritional influences in industrial societies; infection and low birth weight in an industrialized society and developing country; survival and physical growth in infancy and early childhood; birth weight and psychomotor performance in rural Guatemala; synergistic effects of maternal malnutrition and infection in the infant; and animal models for investigation of latent effects of malnutrition.

Keywords: Central America, Fetal development, Fetal diseases, Guatemala, Low birthweight, Maternal nutrition, Panama, Perinatal health, Placenta, Pregnant women, Psychomotor development, Thailand

Hardy JB, ed. 1971. Proceedings of a symposium on factors affecting the growth and development of children, March 30, 1970. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press, 166 pp.

Annotation: These proceedings discuss a project to clarify relationships between perinatal influences and minor impairment of central nervous system function. It also discusses causative factors responsible for the known relationship between poverty and higher frequency of cerebral defects, particularly of a milder degree. Perinatal influences discussed are gestational age and birth weight of the fetus, serum bilirubin levels of newborns, full-term neonates with hyperbilirubinemia, cord serum immunoglobulin levels and long-range fetal outcome. The symposium was conducted by the Johns Hopkins Collaborative Perinatal Project, supported in part by the U.S. Children's Bureau.

Keywords: Brain damage, Central nervous system diseases, Child development, Fetal development, Perinatal influences
   

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