One of the things that caught my attention was how having a C-Section could cause Celiac’s disease?
Here’s the latest article at Everyday Health:
http://www.everydayhealth.com/blogs/the-/how-cesareans-csections-can-cause-celiac-disease
I didn’t understand that article because how could having a C-section bring on a disease that is actually genetic? Read more »
Last evening I had a discussion with a friend of mine, who happens to be a pediatric nurse, on how the size of a baby often determines the birth method.
We got onto this topic because babies in the U.S. today are bigger than ever. That’s largely due to women eating healthier and also possibly due to the use of prenatal vitamins.
This new trend is causing some issues related to the baby’s birth. Bigger babies tend to pose a problem when trying to deliver vaginally. Read more »
Here’s a new interview video I did a few weeks back that you might enjoy…
I read an excellent post over at Birth-Smart.com about how the high rate of C-Section births shouldn’t be a judgement of C-Section moms.
I couldn’t agree more.
But the controversy can be a heated one. Read more »
Last month there was a study done in The international journal Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica (AOGS) that said women who have Tokophobia, the fear of childbirth, were more likely to have a C-Section.
You can read the full Science Daily report here
In fact the statistics were sited as saying that induction of delivery, which often results in having a C-section, was more common among women that had a fear of childbirth as compared to women without such fears.
Also women who fear childbirth were more likely to request they deliver by C-Section.
This follows suit with a post I did back in August, 2008 about Tokophobia, which at the time, was not something I was very familiar with, but I soon found out that fear of childbirth was a severe debilitating disease affecting about 1 in 7 women. Read more »
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