I apparently had my baby in the dark ages – thankfully not before drugs were invented. But these days it’s hip to tweet your baby announcement. Check out the latest addition to the Albertyn family, if you didn’t already catch it on Twitter. (Granted, she was somewhat of a celebrity as the author of a book titled So Close detailing her battle with infertility.)
Way cool, but I have to wonder what kind of tweets I would have sent out considering I managed to make quite an ass of myself to both the anesthesiologist and my OB. Then again, I was in labor …read more

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists reported earlier this year that overweight and obese women have longer labor and delivery times than women with healthy body weight when labor is induced.
The obese women also needed more medication — a dinoprostone vaginal insert — to activate labor, and it took longer for the medicine to start working. The obese women also are more likely to have a cesarean deliver than a vaginal delivery…
… the take home message is that doctors need to tell obese women that electing to have labor induced can place them at higher risk of longer labor …read more