We have conducted a new analysis of the incidence of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) and its
economic impact based on prospectively gathered data of consecutive pregnancies. This …

This article reviews the empirical literature on spontaneous quitting of cigarette smoking
among pregnant women. We define spontaneous quitting and discuss its prevalence and …

Risk factors for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) were examined in a prospective study
based on Swedish births between 1983 and 1985. All infants surviving the first week of life …

About three days after a human egg is fertilized, it passes through the fallopian tunnel and
reaches the uterus, where it spends about four days floating in the uterus's fluids, after which …

BackgroundWe explored the course of broadly defined eating disorders during pregnancy in
the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (MoBa) at the Norwegian Institute of Public …

Risk factors for late fetal death and early neonatal mortality were examined in a population
based prospective study. Practically all Swedish births between 1983 and 1985 were …

Little is known about treatment for pregnant and postpartum women with cooccurring
substance use and depression. Funded by the National Institute of Drug Abuse, we …

This study examined the process of change in pregnancy smoking cessation, using the
stages and processes of change from the Transtheoretical Model, to compare women who …

We report patterns of prenatal smoking cessation and postpartum relapse for a large urban
population of pregnant women. We examined associations between sociodemographic …

Purpose. Despite high rates of spontaneous and assisted smoking cessation during
pregnancy, postpartum maintenance is disappointingly low. Predictors of return to smoking …