[Pregnancy, delivery, and puerperium of elderly primigravidae (author's transl)]

Abstract

Reported in this paper are pregnancy, delivery, puerperium, premature birth rate as well as perinatal and peripartal mortality in 353 somewhat aged primigravidae (32 years and more) in three groups counted by years. Reference is made to complications during pregnancy, delivery, and puerperium for all three groups of probands (K I between 1959 and 1961, K II between 1969 and 1971, K III between 1977 and 1979). High incidence of EPH gestosis (31.1 per cent), more frequent need for surgical delivery (28.1 per cent), and relatively high premature birth rate (10.5 per cent) were found to be the major problems with elderly primigravidae.