Support & Information on C Section, Cesarean Birth, C Section Recovery & Healing
A new study at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore has found that forceps seem to carry less risk for newborn seizures in comparison to vacuum deliveries or c-sections. In recent times, forceps are less in favor for aiding a difficult delivery. C-section rates have increased and vacuum delivery devices are now used more [...]
C-section rates continue to rise, there are many theories why, but no conclusive evidence to definitively prove them. One persistent theory is women wanting them, which has gained the tag ˜too posh to push”. Different studies in different parts of the world claim proof or disproof of this theory one way or the other. A [...]
1. Educate yourself The most effective way to empower yourself to make informed decisions about birth, is knowledge. When you understand the terminology of medical birth and the pro’s and con’s of procedures and interventions, you are much less likely to be bamboozled or pressured into something for no good medical reason. The fact that [...]
In some quarters the evidence that high levels of interventions in childbirth such as inductions and c-sections are not a good thing is done and dusted. Sadly they are a small minority, and in hospitals across America and increasingly the world, intervention rates continue to increase. We have to believe though that the continued and [...]
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 [...]
When we think of a woman giving birth we generally imagine her lying down. While this may be the common experience of most women today but, in years gone by, women would generally give birth at home in a squatting position. It’s only in relatively recently times that labor has become located in a hospital [...]
One of the main reasons many women do yoga during pregnancy is to help relieve back pain. Pregnancy yoga has proven to be excellent in reducing or eliminating not only lower back pain but also other common pregnancy aches such as sciatica and tensions in the pelvis. With the extra weight of a growing baby, [...]
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. [...]
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