Support & Information on C Section, Cesarean Birth, C Section Recovery & Healing
The Leapfrog Group, a hospital quality watchdog has found that thousands of elective c-section babies are born prematurely. This results in a greater chance of death, being admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), and various life-long health problems. Leapfrog claims it is the first national organization to make this information public by hospital. It’s [...]
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) issued a Committee Opinion that says that a prior cesarean delivery is an absolute contraindication to planning a home birth due to the risks, including uterine rupture. The statement says that although the absolute risk of planned home births is low, published medical evidence shows it does [...]
C-Section delivery is now the most common surgery in US hospitals with one in three births being a cesarean. At a time when everyone from the Government down is looking at what things cost a new report suggest that billions of dollars could be saved in health care costs by reducing the number of c-section [...]
Dermabond was approved by the FDA in 1998 and is currently one of the options for closing c-section incisions. Women are currently being recruited for trails to compare results between women who’s c-section incision was stapled with those closed using Dermabond. Another trail will compare c-section closures using staples and sutures (stitches). Essentially Dermabond is [...]
Recent years have seen a dramatically increasing number of women giving birth early. Experts are now saying that these early births pose new health risks to both mothers and newborns. So significant is this increase that the average time of fetus gestation has been reduced by seven days in the United States since 1992, according [...]
Children delivered by c-section are statistically more likely to develop a variety of diseases later in life. These include asthma, diabetes, allergies and even leukemia. In the case of autoimmune disease Celiac disease, it’s as high as 80% more likely. (Celiac disease is the body’s intolerance of gluten, found in common grains like wheat, rye [...]
We are pleased to announce the newly built C Section Recovery Community, a place where all women who may or have delivered by c-section to come together, share, be heard,and be supported. We wanted to create a place, albeit a virtual place, where the free exchange of women’s cesarean experiences, wisdom and insight can take [...]
At least one hospital in the UK is giving credence to the notion of “too posh to push”. The Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading England released a report showing that elective c-sections were 50% more likely for women from the least deprived areas in comparison to women from the most deprived areas. In response to [...]
At a school parent event recently on ‘Grandparents day’ I was talking with a parent about Maui Healing Kits and the c-section recovery belts. He said he knew that c-sections accounted for a lot of births now, one in three I told him, to which his mother responded disdainfully that most of them choose cesarean. [...]
Why is it that home births account for such a small percentage of deliveries in the US? It’s just 1% while the other 99% take place in hospitals, the vast majority attended by doctors. Both the American Medical Association and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) site ‘safety’ as the reason for their [...]
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