It is believed that vaginal delivery is associated with less maternal mortality than cesarean section. On the other hand, repeated cesarean sections are said to be associated with more risks threatening both the mother and the infant. Besides, it is believed that during the next pregnancies, there are many risks involved, such as Placenta Previa, Placenta acreta and even hysterectomy. This article is about a woman who experienced successful vaginal deliveries giving BIRTH to healthy newborns in spite of her numerous cesarean sections she had already experienced.

Background: Low-BIRTH-weight (LBW) is universally used as an indicator of health status and is an important subject of national concern and a focus of health policy. LBW has been shown to be associated with a higher risk for childhood mortality and morbidity. Objective: To determine the important risk factors which could affect the delivery of LBW neonates. Methods: This case-control study was undertaken to determine some risk factors for LBW in two university hospitals in Tehran during a 12-month period between 2002 and 2003. One hundred and sixty neonates constituted the LBW group and 300 neonates constituted the control group. Maternal risk factors including body mass index (BMI), educational level, interval between pregnancies, history of previous delivery of LBW neonates, abortion, infertility, unwanted pregnancy, and diseases were analyzed between the two groups. Mean of maternal age was similar between the two groups. Results: Of 160 LBW neonates, 58% were females and 42% males. It was found that mother’s BMI, unwanted pregnancy, educational level of mother, short and long intervals between pregnan­cies, previous history of delivering LBW neonates, and maternal diseases are associated with an increased risk of LBW. Conclusion: The majority of factors which lead to the delivery of LBW neonates are preventable.

Background and Objectives: The association between discordant growth and the complication of twin prgnancy has been recognized for more than 30years. Recent publications have presented evidence that 30% or even 40% discordancere presents the threshold for significante. Our purpose was to define twin growth discordance on the basis of perinatal outcome and other factors like mathernal age pariety and systemic disease. Materials and Methods: Twins delivered at age more than 32 week"s gestation between 1998-2000 at Deziani hospital Gorgan was identified. BIRTH weight, pre-term BIRTH, mathernal age pariety and systemic disease and sex of twins recorded. Discordance was calculated as: 100 x Larger BW-Samller BW/Larger BW Results: The mean discordance for 435 twins was 8.18±6.79. 96.4% ofpre-term BIRTH associated with discordance ≥20%. 10.6%of mathers had a systemic disease and mean discordance in twins term and pre-term of normal mothers was 5.8±4.5, 7.9±6.3 and in systemic disease was 9±9.2, 11.1±8.8(P:S;0.008).There was no diffrences in pariety age and sex. Conclusion: Twin BIRTH weight discordance had now clearly been demonstratd to be a risk factor for pre-term BIRTH. The effect was found particularly with discordances ≥20% after 32 week"s gestation.

Introduction: Home BIRTH has beneficial effects on labor and delivery. This study is aimed to compare home and hospital BIRTHs in primigravid women.Methods: In this analytic descriptive study the participants consisted of all women aged 18-30 years, with term pregnancy, single fetus, cephalic presentation, spontaneous onset of labor and without antenatal complications. 50 women were in home BIRTH group and another 50 were in hospital BIRTH group. In this study length of delivery, first and fifth minute APGAR scores, rate of episiotomy, satisfaction from delivery experience and initiation of breastfeeding were measured T-test, Chi-square and Fisher exact tests were used for data analysis.Results: Findings revealed that home BIRTH appears to be associated with shorter overall delivery time (P < 0.01), lower rate of episiotomy (P < 0.01), earlier initiation of breastfeeding (P<0.01) and increased satisfaction from delivery experience (P<0.01). No significant difference was observed in duration of second stage of delivery, and also first and fifth minutes APGAR scores in two group. Conclusion: Considering the above findings, it can be concluded that home BIRTH is not only devoid of adverse effect on delivery, but also improves many factors related to delivery. Planned home BIRTH can be applied in normal uncomplicated deliveries in our country by providing optimum conditions.

Schizophrenia is an important disorder in psychiatry with an unknown etiology. Many factors (e.g. BIRTH order) have been mentioned as its risk factor. Since few studies with scientific designs on BIRTH order and schizophrenia have been performed in Iran, this study was conducted.Every consecutive patient in psychiatric ward for 3 months was assessed and categorized according to the DSM-IV into four groups (i.e. schizophrenia, schizoaffective and bipolar, major depressive disorder and others) and demographic characteristics (age, sex, BIRTH order and family size) were evaluated.In comparison with the non-schizophrenic group, this study indicated that schizophrenia is more prevalent among the first-born children (P<0.01), even in schizophrenic group itself, the-born child was more commonly affected (P<0.001). This result was independent from age, sex and family size.

Spiritual BIRTH consists in a reBIRTH attainable in earthly world by some transformations in spiritual field; in other words, it is the generation of life from faith under the guidance of Prophet and, after him, under the guidance of an examined and spiritual leader. The second BIRTH lies in upgradability of human soul, a process in which it, leaving the vices and getting its divine form, develops and attains certainty. This BIRTH is caused by optional death. Optional death is a type of optional destruction and leaving worldly desires thereof the soul arrives at another life. In this BIRTH, human soul experiences different kinds of death and, finally reaches its highest degree of spirituality. Man in his optional death attain resurrection and observes what happens through nonoptional death in the very earthly world. What leads to the optional death of a mystic is but a deep love to unifying with his own origin. The love invites the mystic to the connection before connection and to the death before death.