Blisstree » labor http://www.blisstree.com Family, Health, Home and Lifestyles Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:50:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Would You Tweet During Labor? http://www.blisstree.com/articles/would-you-tweet-during-labor/ http://www.blisstree.com/articles/would-you-tweet-during-labor/#comments Wed, 20 May 2009 10:00:42 +0000 Jennifer Walker-Journey http://www.blisstree.com/?p=88248 Post from: Blisstree

Would You Tweet During Labor?

]]> 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.)

3346248321_259f26a0feWay 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 for 30 hours…. Well, too late to wonder about it now.

Would you tweet about your labor?

(You can also follow me on Twitter, but I’m not planning to birth a baby anytime soon … just fyi.)

Photo, “Twitter Map” by Boris Veldhuijzenvan

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Would You Tweet During Labor?

]]> http://www.blisstree.com/articles/would-you-tweet-during-labor/feed/ 0 Another Reason to Stay Fit: Obesity Could Mean Longer, Harder Labor http://www.blisstree.com/articles/another-reason-to-stay-fit-obesity-could-mean-longer-harder-labor-115/ http://www.blisstree.com/articles/another-reason-to-stay-fit-obesity-could-mean-longer-harder-labor-115/#comments Wed, 03 Oct 2007 10:17:07 +0000 Kristen King http://www.livelywomen.com/2007/10/03/another-reason-to-stay-fit-obesity-could-mean-longer-harder-labor/ Post from: Blisstree

Another Reason to Stay Fit: Obesity Could Mean Longer, Harder Labor

]]> Obesity Contributes to Longer LaborThe 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 and could increase the possibility that they will need a cesarean section. In addition, doctors may want to wait for labor to begin spontaneously rather than choosing to induce labor early in obese women, given these risks.*

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Another Reason to Stay Fit: Obesity Could Mean Longer, Harder Labor

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