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When was the last time you stopped and remembered what a miracle your children are?
It’s one of those count your blessings and go hug your kids kind of stories.
When Dawn Flemming, 35, was still pregnant six months ago, her baby daughter was given no chance of survival because of a mango-sized tumor that stretched the length of her neck. Doctors explained that it blocked the baby’s pencil-thin airways, which would make it impossible for her to breathe once it became detached from the placenta.
Since she wasn’t able to get a legal abortion at that point, Dawn sought a second opinion, and she ended up signing up for a rare and risky surgery at New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center, where doctors partially delivered her baby through a c-section 10 weeks later and inserted a tube into her airways, which enabled the baby to breathe on her own.
Baby-crazed Kassandra Toruga is accused of trying to cut a baby out of her friend's pregnant belly
It doesn’t happen often, but on rare occasions I am without words. This is one of those times.
According to law enforcement officials, an 18-year-old girl in Arizona has admitted to attacking her nine-months-pregnant friend in an attempt to steal her unborn child.
Kassandra Toruga of Maricopa was apprehended by firefighters at her friend’s home while in possession of butchers knives, scissors, diapers and a bag of baby clothes.
C-sections at an all-time high in spite of few moms actually preferring them.
New birthing data was recently compiled from nearly 20,000 women from all over the world. Though countless studies have documented the well known rise in C-section deliveries, Dr. Agustina Mazzoni, of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and her colleagues conducted the first meta analysis that actually examined women’s preference. They scoured over medical literature and found 38 different studies which comprised 19,403 women from the Americas, Asia, Europe, Africa and Australia.
And though the percentages varied within each locale, the overall percentage of women who preferred a c-section to a vaginal deliver is a lot lower than some might think.
How'd you get here?
Let me be clear: I think the C-section rate is much too high. When it comes to childbirth, a woman should be able to have a vaginal birth. Like John, I know that C-sections can be complicated. Like Danielle, I wouldn’t elect to have a Cesarean section.
But I had a C-section when I had my twins. And even though it’s major surgery, it went very smoothly. I was up and about in a day and my overall recovery was pretty easy.
And, there’s this: the C-section probably saved my life and my daughter’s. Who knows if my son would’ve made it if I didn’t, I’m glad we didn’t find out. Why did I need that C-section?I had a complication called placenta previa. Actually, it was a partial previa, which means that a section of my daughter’s placenta overlapped with my cervix. Since the placenta delivers blood to the fetus, during childbirth, as the cervix opens, heavy blood loss for mother and child can result. Continue reading »
C-section births reached an all-time high in 2008.
When my wife was pregnant with triplets, her OB/GYN recommended that she deliver our trio via cesarean section. And while we understood that given her scenario, a c-section was the safest option, it wasn’t how either one of us envisioned the birth happening. When it comes down to it, were it not for the triplets, we would have opted for a vaginal birth.
Turns out couples like us are growing fewer and farther between.
US News and World Report posted an article today which details a new report that shows c-section deliveries reached an all-time high in 2008, accounting for almost one in three U.S. births. Though the overall birthrate has dropped (except for women over 40) the c-section rate is doing anything but. Continue reading »
Surgical Delivery
Being a mother who has given birth twice via a cesarean section, when I saw the title of this article in my in-box I couldn’t skip over it. Are c-section babies happier kids? My interest was sparked!
Over on BabyCenter, Author Marcella Gates reported a new Chinese study reported by Reuters yesterday. According to the study – babies who undergo a difficult vaginal delivery are more likely to develop behavioral problems over children born via c-section. Continue reading »
Why you spreading rumors about me, girlfriend?!
Contrary to rumors circulating last week, pop star Celine Dion has not thrown diva fits about her pregnancy – nor has she scheduled a C-section for October 22. She has, however, been admitted to St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach, Florida “for observation at the recommendation of her doctors,” the hospital released in a statement to People magazine this morning. Say her doctors, “She has been admitted to prevent the early delivery of her babies, which is the standard of care for any patient with twin pregnancy in this clinical setting.”
Staff at St. Mary’s stress that Celine “is not scheduled at any predetermined date for her delivery” and that “she has not requested or selected any particular staff or accommodations not available to other patients. The patient is being treated as any other OB patient who comes to St. Mary’s Medical Center.”
How nice! Proof that Celine is not “too posh to push.” In fact, recent studies show that despite rapidly rising C-section rates all over the world, the vast majority of the surgeries are not optional or elective, but rather performed out of medical necessity. Continue reading »
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