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A peer support intervention for first-time mothers: Feasibility and preliminary efficacy of the mummy buddy program

The transition to motherhood, although joyous, can be highly stressful, and the availability of professional postpartum support for mothers is often limited. Peer volunteer support programs may offer a viable and cost-effective method to provide community-based support for new mothers. The aim of this study is to determine the feasibility of a peer volunteer support program-The Mummy Buddy Program-in which experienced volunteer mothers are paired with, and trained to offer social support to, first-time mothers.

Parental occupational exposure to pesticides and risk of childhood cancer in Switzerland: a census-based cohort study

Pesticide exposure is a suspected risk factor for childhood cancer. We investigated the risk of developing childhood cancer in relation to parental occupational exposure to pesticides in Switzerland for the period 1990-2015.

Vitamin D receptor polymorphisms are associated with severity of wheezing illnesses and asthma exacerbations in children

These findings suggest that genetic variants at the VDR locus may play a role in acute wheeze/asthma severity in children

Rheumatic heart disease in pregnancy: Profile of women admitted to a Western Australian tertiary obstetric hospital

This retrospective study assessed maternal and perinatal outcomes for women with rheumatic heart disease admitted to the largest tertiary obstetric hospital

Association between pregnant women's experience of stress and partners’ fly-in-fly-out work

There is some evidence that the pregnant partners of fly-in-fly-out workers perceive their lives to be more stressful

Vaccine acceptance: Science, policy, and practice in a ‘post-fact’ world

We must continue our efforts to promote vaccine acceptance and thus increase vaccination uptake, by fostering more effective vaccination communication

Intellectual disability and psychotic disorders in children: Association with maternal severe mental illness and exposure to obstetric complications

Maternal severe mental illness and exposure to obstetric complications contribute separately to the risk of intellectual disability

Cellular and molecular mechanisms of vitamin D in food allergy

Epidemiological evidence from the past decade suggests a role of vitamin D in food allergy pathogenesis

Maternal BMI at the start of pregnancy and offspring epigenome-wide DNA methylation: Findings from the pregnancy and childhood epigenetics (PACE) consortium

we meta-analysed the association between pre-pregnancy maternal BMI and methylation at over 450,000 sites in newborn blood DNA, across 19 cohorts.