Technical papers and reports

• Woolhouse H, McDonald E, Brown S. Sexual health and intimacy after childbirth. The impact of pregnancy, childbirth and parenting on sexual health and intimacy. Healthy Mothers Healthy Families Research Group, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne 2009, 12pp

Conference Abstracts

Presentations about the study have been given at various national and international conferences:

2009

• Brown S, Donath S, MacArthur C, McDonald E, Krastev A. Urinary incontinence in nulliparous women and associated risk factors. AOCOG/RANZCOG Annual Scientific Meeting 2009. Auckland, New Zealand 2009.
  
  
• Gartland D, Brown S, Donath S, Perlen S. What impact is delayed childbearing having on women's health in early pregnancy? AOCOG/RANZCOG Annual Scientific Meeting 2009 Auckland, New Zealand 2009. (Awarded prize for best oral presentation)
  
  
• Lansakara N, Brown S, Gartland D. Women's health after childbirth: experiences of immigrant and Australian born women in the first three months postpartum. 2009 General Practice and Primary Health Care Research Conference. Melbourne, 2009.
  
  
• Brown S, Donath S, MacArthur C, McDonald E, Krastev A. Urinary incontinence in nulliparous women: incidence and associated risk factors. Annual Meeting of the International Continence Society (ICS), San Francisco, USA, September 29 - October 3, 2009
  
  
• Brown S, Gartland D, Hemphill S, Hegarty K. Intimate partner violence during and after pregnancy: findings of the Maternal Health Study. World Congress of Perinatal Medicine, Berlin, October 2009
  
  
• Brown S, Donath S, MacArthur C, McDonald E, Krastev A. Urinary incontinence in nulliparous women: incidence and associated risk factors. World Congress of Perinatal Medicine, Berlin, October 2009
  
  

2008

• Perlen S, Brown S, McDonald E, Krastev A. Physical health problems in early pregnancy: findings from the Maternal Health Study. Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand 12th Annual Congress, April 2008, Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health 2008;44;S1:A13
  
  
• Flood M, Brown S and the Maternal Health Collaborative Group. Data abstraction of labour and birth events from medical records: a complex task. Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand 12th Annual Congress, Gold Coast, April 2008, P32
  
  
• Woolhouse H, Brown S, Krastev A, Perlen S, Gunn J. Help-seeking behaviours of women experiencing depression and anxiety nine months after childbirth. 2008 GP & Primary Health Care Research Conference, Hobart, June 2008
  
  
• Gartland D, Brown S, Perlen S, McDonald E. Early pregnancy and the emotional and physical health of nulliparous women. Does maternal age make a difference? 2008 GP & Primary Health Care Research Conference, Hobart, June 2008
  
  
• McDonald E, Brown S, Krastev A. Sex after childbirth. 2008 GP & Primary Health Care Research Conference, Hobart, June 2008
  
  
• Brown S, Gartland D, Hemphill S, McDonald E, Krastev A, Hegarty K. Fear of an intimate partner during and after pregnancy: health consequences, social determinants, social policy solutions. 5th World Conference on the Promotion of Mental Health and the Prevention of Mental and Behavioural Disorders, From Margins to Mainstream, Melbourne, September 2008 (accepted)
  
  

2007

• Brown S, McDonald, Krastev A, Hegarty K, Gunn J. Intimate partner violence and health in pregnancy. World Psychiatric Association International Congress (WPA 2007), Melbourne, November-December 2007.
  
  
• Brown S, McDonald E, Krastev A. Intimate partner violence and health in pregnancy. Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand 11th Annual Congress, Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health 2007;43;S1:A15
  
  

Papers in refereed journals

• Brown S, Lumley J, McDonald E, Krastev A. Maternal health study: a prospective cohort study of nulliparous women recruited in early pregnancy. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2006;6:12
  
  
• Brown, S, McDonald E, Krastev A. Fear of an intimate partner and women’s health in early pregnancy: findings from the maternal health study. Birth 2008, 35, 293-302.
  
  
• Woolhouse H, Brown S, Krastev A, Perlen S, Gunn J. Seeking help for anxiety and depression after childbirth: results of the Maternal Health Study. Archives of Women's Mental Health. 2009 April;12(2):75-83.
  
  
• Lansakara N, Brown S, Gartland D. Birth outcomes, postpartum health and contacts with primary health care professionals of immigrant and Australian born women in the first three months postpartum. Maternal and Child Health Journal. 2009 E-pub ahead of print
  
  
• Brown S, Donath S, McArthur C, McDonald E, Krastev A. Urinary incontinence in nulliparous women before and during pregnancy: prevalence, incidence and associated risk factors. Int J Urogynecology 2009 Epub ahead of print DOI 10.1007/s00192-009-1011-x