Support & Information on C Section, Cesarean Birth, C Section Recovery & Healing
Putting cesarean and natural together as a pairing just doesn’t seem right, a wrongly applied description (misnomer) a figure of speech that combines contradictory terms (oxymoron). Seems like both doesn’t it? So imagine this… the scent of lavender fills the air, classical music plays softly in the background, a midwife is giving you a massage [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
No one is in doubt that c-section rates have risen dramatically in the last decades. Where there is debate is why? In California a recent, nonpartisan study found that cesarean rates are 17% more likely at for profit hospitals over those that operate not for profit. The cold hard facts are, a surgical birth can [...]
Two leading health organizations- the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and the National Institutes of Health have both recently issued statements in support of a vaginal birth after a cesarean (VBAC). Both examined the safety of a vaginal delivery after a prior cesarean birth. Both indicated a trial of labor is reasonable for [...]
The American Congress of Obstericians and Gynecologists (ACOG) now say that “All women need antibiotics one hour before cesarean delivery” The reason this has not been general practice to prevent the 10-40% post surgery infection rate for cesarean delivery (1-3% for vaginal birth), was the concern that the antibiotics that made it into the baby’s [...]
A new and significant study suggests that the greater a womans weight when she checks in on delivery day, the likelier a cesarean delivery. The study involved data from nearly 125,000 women who gave birth between 2002 and 2008. This data was carefully analyzed to determine how other factors than a woman’s body mass index [...]
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