Background: Worldwide, neonatal hyperbilirubinemia is a common neonatal disorder. Aim:The study aimed to assess perception of mothers regarding their neonatal hyperbilirubinemia.Research design: Descriptive study design was utilized to conduct the study. Setting: The study was conducted in Neonatal Follow-up Clinics and Immunization Clinics at Benha University Hospitals, Family Health Care Center and Central Hospital in Al-Shouhada City. Sample: A purposive sample was used to conduct the study, included (300) mothers who fulfill the inclusive criteria. Tools: There were four tools used in the study. Tool (I): Structured interviewing questionnaire that includes socio-demographic data and current obstetrics history. Tools(II): Assessment of mother's knowledge regarding neonatal hyperbilirubinemia. Tools (III): Self_report practices regarding neonatal hyperbilirubinemia and tool (IV): Modified Likert Scale to assess attitude of mothers regarding neonatal hyperbilirubinemia. Results: Less than three-quarters of the studied women had poor knowledge regarding neonatal hyperbilirubinemia, majority of mothers had unsatisfactory self-report practices and minority of them had satisfactory self-report practices. About two-thirds the studied women had negative attitude regarding neonatal hyperbilirubinemia . Conclusion:The studied women had poor knowledge and negative attitude regarding neonatal hyperbilrubinemia especially among primipara. Regarding self_report practices of mothers, majority of mothers had unsatisfactory self-report practices and minority of them had satisfactory self-report practices Recommendedations: Targeted public enlightenment and educational program should be done to improve the level of awareness regarding neonatal hyperbilirubinemia. ‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ ‫ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ ‫ـــ‬ .

Vaginal yeast infection is a common condition that affects women during reproductive age. Aim of the study: Was to investigate the effectiveness of baking soda on vaginal yeast infection among adolescent nursing students. Design: Quasi-experimental design was used. Setting: This study conducted at Faculty of Nursing, Benha University. Sample: A Purposive sample was used to conduct the study, included 120 student who fulfill inclusion criteria. Tools: Three tools were used, (1): A self-administered questionnaire that includes: Sociodemographic data, menstrual history and risk factor of disease. (2): Student's knowledge questionnaire and (3): Clinical manifestation of vaginal yeast infection record: (vaginal, urinary and sexual symptoms). Results: There was a statistical significant regarding sexual symptom associated with vaginal yeast infection at pre and post application of baking soda, with p value≤ 0.05. Conclusion: There are improvements in all vaginal, urinary and sexual symptoms associated with vaginal yeast infection after application of baking soda Recommendation: Applying educational programs for adolescent females and their mothers to increase awareness about vaginal yeast infection ‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ ‫ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ ‫ــــ.‬

Background: Leg cramps during pregnancy are a common discomfort characterized by involuntary, painful contractions of muscle groups that usually occur in small muscles of the foot but can affect different parts of the leg. Aim: The study aimed to evaluate effect of instructional guidelines on knowledge and self-care practices among pregnant women suffering from leg cramps. Design: Quasi-experimental design (pre -posttest ″one group‶) was utilized Setting: The study was conducted at Obstetrics and Gynecological out -patient clinic in Benha University hospital. Sample: A purposive sample was used; it includes all pregnant women with leg cramps admitted to previous setting for six months. Tools: A structured-interviewing questionnaire, maternal knowledge questionnaire and Maternal self-report about self-care practices regarding leg cramps questionnaire. Results: There was a highly statistical significant difference between the results of post-test compared to pre-test about knowledge and self-care practices regarding leg cramps. Conclusion: The implementation of instructional guidelines was effective in improving pregnant women's knowledge and self-care practices regarding leg cramps. Recommendation: Practice modification to prevent leg cramps should be recommended by Obstetricians and obstetric nurses to be first trial by pregnant women who have leg cramps. Also, Booklets and brochures containing sufficient knowledge about leg cramps during pregnancy and its management should be printed and kept in antenatal clinics and maternity hospitals and given to all pregnant women.

Background: Painless labor refers to relieving labor pain via different methods of pain relief whether was pharmacological or non-pharmacological methods of pain relief. Aim of the study: Was to assess knowledge and attitudes of pregnant women regarding painless labor. Study design: A descriptive study was utilized. Setting: This study was conducted at Obstetrics &Gynecology department at Benha University Hospital (Outpatient Clinic). Sampling: A purposive sample of 150 women who fulfill the inclusion criteria. Tools of data collection: Two tools were used for data collection; Tool I An interviewing-administered questionnaire sheet including two parts; (sociodemographic data and maternal knowledge assessment questionnaire regarding painless labor), tool II Modified Likert's scale to assess attitude of pregnant women regarding painless labor. Results: More than half of the studied women had poor knowledge and negative attitude regarding painless labor. Conclusion: There was a highly statistically significant positive correlation between total knowledge and attitude scores regarding painless labor Recommendations: Designing and applying educational classes for the health care provider and women about painless labor at different antenatal clinics.