About half a million women die each year during pregnancy and childbirth from complications that could easily be treated or prevented if they had access to appropriate care.

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Those taking part in the study will be asked to go to the antenatal suite at Singleton Hospital in Swansea once during each trimester of their pregnancy and again three months after their baby is born.

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She went on to have two more healthy children and declined pressure to induce both, each born in the 40th week of pregnancy.

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He said this was because doctors tended to use more than one embryo at a time to increase the chance that each individual treatment led to a successful pregnancy.

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Teenage pregnancy rates in Scotland have fallen for each of the past four years - but remain among the highest in western Europe.

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Infectious diseases and complications of pregnancy and delivery cause at least 10 million deaths each year.

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The National Childbirth Trust said the idea of having a network to provide joined-up care for women was one it could support but it would prefer care during pregnancy and maternity to be concentrated in one NHS organisation in each area.

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His lasting contribution here, he said, was to point out that instead of lugging each sheep up the beautiful winding stone staircase, anaesthetising it and diagnosing pregnancy by opening it up, one could merely feel its belly while it was still outside.

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