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You hear stories about dad delivering the baby all the time. But who ever heard of a two-year-old stepping in to catch his baby brother?
Two-year-old Jeremiah Favazza literally helped mom Bobbye push brother Kamron into the world. Continue reading »
Doctors already know treating gestational diabetes is going to help reduce a woman’s risk that she’ll develop Type 2 diabetes. But now they’ve found simple treatments may ward of C-sections and a range of health problems for baby. Continue reading »
In Tuesday’s issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine , a review of randomized trials concludes that elective induction at or after 41 weeks of pregnancy does not increase a woman’s risk for c-section.
In fact, inductions at or after 41 weeks lowered the risk of surgery by 22 percent (lowered!), according to the report.
Does this mean inductions have been unfairly fingered as one reason the c-section rate in Canada and, more so, the U.S., is so high? Aren’t inductions a part of the cascade of interventions that lead to c-section? Continue reading »
Changing guidelines with regard to breech births has Canadian obstetricians and gynecologists scrambling to train doctors to deliver breech babies vaginally.
The Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada issued new guidelines this week calling for doctors to no longer automatically schedule moms for c-sections of their baby is positioned to enter the birth canal buttocks or feet first. They say a reassessment of earlier trials shows that babies and mothers do not suffer worse outcomes in vaginal breech births than those who opt for c-sections. Continue reading »
At twenty-one, Tarrah Seymour is pregnant with her second child and says she doesn’t want anymore. But doctors have told her she’s too young to decide for herself.
The married Canadian mom has been denied a tubal ligation by her doctors, who say they won’t even consider it until she’s twenty-five.
So much for “our bodies, ourselves.” Continue reading »
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