April is Cesarean Awareness Month. And increased awareness is definitely what we need, not only for this month but the whole year round. Because the recent US baby boom seemed to have been accompanied by a C-section boom.
According to the 2007 statistics recently released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), C-section delivers [...]
Tags: C-section, cesarean, International Cesarean Awareness Network (ICAN), low birth weight, preterm delivery
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Last summer, the buzz was all about Thomas Beatie, “the pregnant man,” and his daughter Susan. Well, Beaties, step aside, now there’s something even better. A Spanish transsexual man claims he is 6-weeks pregnant with twins.
25-year old Ruben Noe Coronado Jimenez and his partner, 43-year old Esperanza Ruiz, happily announced the news to the world [...]
Tags: cesarean, Esperanza Ruiz, in vitro, Pregnancy, pregnant man, Pronto, Ruben Noe Coronado Jimenez, Spain, Thomas Beatie, transgender, transsexual, Twins
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It’s a baby boom! Government researchers just reported that in 2007, there were 4.3 million live births. That tops even the baby boom of the 1950s. After concerns on some fronts in recent years about the US population not reproducing itself, this is a sigh of relief. But the numbers are slightly misleading. According to [...]
Tags: abortion, birthrate, CDC, cesarean, low birth weight, population, premature, teen pregnancy, unwed mothers
Posted in: Baby, News
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A study published in the October issue of Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry by Yale School of Medicine researchers indicates that mothers who deliver their baby vaginally are more strongly bonded to their newborn than a mother who deliver via cesarean section.
The researchers performed brain scans on the mothers while they listened to their [...]
Tags: Baby, bond, cesarean, Mother, vaginal
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I spent the last eight posts going through the story of the birth of our daughter for a reason. I wanted everyone who reads this blog to know exactly where we (my wife and I) were coming from with our anticipation (arguably trepidation) of our second.
Since that experience, my wife has seen her obstetrician [...]
Tags: C-section, cesarean, delivery, scheduled, VBAC
Posted in: Health
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