I haven’t read this book so I’m not offering a review of it. I found the information as I was doing my daily search for information and though it was appropriate to mention here since many women have Cesarean sections or need epidurals and in my other blogs as well.
According to the press release,

Here’s a Self-Advocacy Book that Can Change Your Life!
Before the Scalpel: What Everyone Should Know about Anesthesia,a new book from Tell Me Press.
The decision has been made: you are going to have surgery. You’ve met with your surgeon. You have a good idea what will happen during …read more

It used to be that "once a Cesarean, always a Cesarean," but this isn’t the case any longer. Many women who have had C-sections want to try to deliver vaginally for subsequent pregnancies. This is called a Vaginal Delivery After Cesarean, or VBAC.
While VBACs do have risks, including rupture of the uterine walls, many women do deliver vaginally after a C-section and don’t have any complications. The problem, however, lies in how to tell in advance who may be at higher risk if they have a VBAC.
A study presented on January 30th at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine’s (SMFM) showed …read more

I’ve found a series of webcasts of different medical procedures and issues. One is a Cesarean section that was broadcast, live, last year.
If you’d like to see what really happens during a C-section, you may be interested in watching this half-hour webcast at OR-Live.com.
If you watch it, please come back and let us know what you thought.
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Tags: pregnancy blog, cesarean section, c section, webcast cesarean section

We try to do a theme day every month here at the Health & Wellness channel of b5media. This month, Karen at Pink Ribbon Review is the host. You can check out the other blogs that are participating in her round-up post: Theme Day: Harvest-related Posts on the Health & Wellness Channel
Not every theme is applicable to every blog, so as much as I thought about it, I couldn’t come up with anything for Womb Within or Help My Hurt. So, I figured I’d harvest some of the best posts of the “season.”
These were the top 5 posts here (most …read more

Some people learn better by reading, others by doing, and yet others by watching. The advantage to this blog is I can write things out for you and I can also provide videos to help you learn about pregnancy and health issues. Here are 10 of the most popular videos here at Womb Within:

Video: Caesarian section

Video: Chorionic villus sampling

Video: What is amniocentesis?

Video: Fetal ultrasound

Video: What are doctors looking for with ultrasounds?

Want to make your own heating pad/rice bag?

Video: month 7 of pregnancy

Video: month 8 of pregnancy – you’re getting there!

Video: weeks 33 to 36 – the first half of month …read more

Despite Cesarean sections (C-sections) being one of the most common surgeries, surprisingly, there is no general consensus among physicians about which is the best way to do the surgery.

The different techniques used depend entirely on surgeon preference and experience.
Researchers reviewed 15 trials that totaled almost 4000 women who had C-sections. They (the researchers) weren’t able to find consistent information regarding rates of infections, blood loss or how long the surgeries took comparing one type of C-section to another. Without this type of information, it’s impossible to make any recommendations about what techniques and procedures are better than others.
You …read more

 
 
Was I mean putting coffee here? Some women really miss their coffee while they’re pregnant, while with others, it doesn’t bother them.
 
 
C is also for:
 Cervical incompetence: Sounds like we’ve done something naughty! But cervical incompetence is not something that women can do anything about. It’s the cervix that is unable to remain closed during pregnancy, keeping the woman at risk from miscarrying or delivering prematurely. In some cases, obstetricians can stitch the cervix closed until it’s almost time to go into labor or mothers with this problem could be put on bedrest.
Chorionic villus sampling (CVS): This test is done …read more

Over at A Better Life, Rita Rubin discusses Angelina Jolie’s c-section for her twins Knox and Vivienne Jolie-Pitt: Angelina’s C-section.
I didn’t realize that Shiloh, the first biological child between Angelina and Brad Pitt, was also born by Cesarean section. As Rita Rubin points out, that increased the likelihood of Angelina having a second C-section, particularly because of the twins.
Regardless of how she delivered, it’s nice to hear that all is well and I wish them all well.
Image: Newscom
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There is a lot of controversy over the number of Caesarian sections that are taking place in the Western world. Whether they are being done for convenience or their increased numbers are medically justified, it is known that C-sections have risks for both mother and baby.
In the mother’s case, C-sections are major surgery even if they are routine. There is also the longer recovery phase for C-section mums. Now, it seems that there may be yet another risk – an increased risk of stroke.
Click here to read more.
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According to a press release issued today, “Babies born by Caesarean section have a 50% increased risk of developing asthma compared to babies born naturally. Emergency Caesarean sections increase the risk even further. This is shown in a new study based on data from 1.7 million births registered at the Medical Birth Registry at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health.”
To read  more, go to Caesarean sections associated with risk of asthma.
You can read more about C-section information here:

Video: Caesarian section

Press Release: Some C-sections may not be medically necessary, March of Dimes say

Too many Caesarians?

Image: newscom
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