Cesarean Section
Are C-Sections More Civilized?
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From an article titled “No love for labor” found at www.DeccanHerald.com
“More and more women are opting for fast-track deliveries through elective C-section. Rising affluence, limited time and desire for pain-free birthing has spurred this unhealthy trend. [...]
Ulterior Motives of Your OB-GYN
Did Your Doctor Recommend a C-Section Just So He Could Get Home for Dinner? Learn About Unnecessary Medical Interventions in Labor and How to Avoid Them
Source www.PRweb.com
Moms: Do you really need that C-section or epidural? Registered nurse and midwife Breck Hawk, author of “Hey! Who’s Having This Baby Anyway?” reveals why these procedures are often [...]
Dangers of Elective C-Section
Source: www.PRWeb.com
Ponte Vedra Beach, FL (PRWEB) — The Coalition for Improving Maternity Services (CIMS) is eagerly anticipating the results of the upcoming National Institutes of Health (NIH) State-of-the Science Conference: Cesarean Delivery on Maternal Request, March 27-29, 2006 and trusts that the NIH will provide much needed guidelines and recommendations for decreasing cesarean surgeries [...]
Why Babies Prefer Natural Childbirth
Childbirth is a life changing event which can be both exhilarating and draining, the greatest experience of one’s life or the worst. Childbirth carries tremendous dogma, old wives tales, traditions, and controversy.
Adults have their own rhyme and reason for birth choices. Doctors and midwives make choices for convenience, scheduling, to avoid lawsuits or for profit. [...]
Studies Show Homebirth Is Safe, Episiotomy Is Harmful
Source: www.PRWeb.com
(PRWEB) A study in the June 18th issue (2005) of the British Medical Journal found that “planned home births for low risk women in the United States are associated with similar safety and less medical intervention as low risk hospital births.” With prospective data from more than 5000 births attended in 2000 by Certified [...]
Brangelina Gives Birth to Twins
The twins have arrived! Angelina Jolie delivered her 5 lb twins via cesarean in a French hospital, fully conscious with Brad in the room. According to an ABC news article “The 33-year-old actress gave birth to a boy, Knox Leon, and a girl, Vivienne Marcheline, by Caesarean section about 8 p.m. Saturday in Nice [...]
Increased Risk of Asthma from Cesareans
A recent study from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, found that C-section babies are 40-60% more likely to suffer from asthma as children. The study is based on data from a whopping 1.7 million births and compared the results of spontaneous vaginal births and cesarean babies through age 18. Emergency cesareans posed [...]
C Section Video
Here is a nice short c section video to add to our childbirth video library. It is very clear from this c section video that a cesarean section is not simple or painless. It is major abdominal surgery. Just because the mother is anesthetized, does not mean she will not suffer the [...]
Cesareans and Prematurity
The rate of premature birth has been increasing for 2 decades and researchers are now blaming part of the increase on unnecessary cesarean sections. The cesareans are accountable for almost all of the of the increase in “late preemies”, meaning birth during weeks 34-37, when the brain and lungs are not fully formed, but the [...]
Video: Another Cesarean Section
This poor baby. His mother butchered so he can be dragged from his uterine home. He is exposed to harsh light, dragged out by his head and then carried away, cold and scared, into the arms of strangers while mom looks on helplessly.
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