C-Section Recovery: One More Item for the Hospital Bag
June 13, 2006 by kate baggott
Filed under Labor & Delivery
Planned or unplanned, recovering from a Cesarian Section can be complicated. New research suggests that there is one more tool to speed recovery up. The challenge? Getting the new mother’s bowels moving again (motherhood is all about glamour).
According to study results reported in Maclean’s Magazine, chewing gum may help women get their innards back in shape faster:
Early resumption of eating has been shown to stimulate bowel recovery after surgery, but has not been widely adopted. “Maybe old habits die hard,” says Dr. Bela Satija of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va. “But also, some patients do not tolerate early feeding, …read more
