There are many opinions about what is safe or healthy during labor and delivery. This is especially true for women who are attempting a vaginal birth after a Cesarean section (VBAC). Even medical professionals do not always agree on issues such as whether or not epidural blocks are a method of pain management during a ...
This article will outline some of the risks of elective c-section. While the risks are the same with a c-section you didn’t choose, it is important to understand that it you elect to have a c-section, you are signing up for a potential host of problems. I don’t mean for this article to judge. I ...
Surviving a pregnancy is hard enough. Surviving a pregnancy with complications following a previous c-section is even harder. While a c-section might seem routine, hidden dangers exist. I refer to these risks as “hidden dangers” because they are the things that physicians either gloss over or fail to inform patients of prior to the procedure. ...
I felt completely at home the minute I walked upstairs and into the waiting room. The Midwife Center’s office area and waiting room is like no doctors office I’ve ever seen. The center itself is housed in an old home in Pittsburgh’s Strip District, and that’s a good beginning. The rooms have been kept as ...
OK, you’re pregnant. Congratulations!! You’ve read all the books and articles on pregnancy that you could find. You think you know everything there is to know and that’s good, but what about the actual birth? Do you know enough about that? Do you understand the terms being used by the doctor and nurses that are ...
For centuries herbs have been used as medicine and the results are often very beneficial. Herbal remedies can be used to treat illness, maintain and promote good health and prepare the body for changes such as those during pregnancy. Much of our allopathic medicine used today came from herbs. Not all herbal remedies are recommended ...
In March of 2005, the AAFP (American Academy of Family Physicians) released a new set of recommendations for VBAC, based upon data from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Evidence Report on Vaginal Birth After Cesarean. According to the document, “In 2003, after publication of AHRQ Evidence Report Number 71, the AAFP established a ...
The conventional wisdom used to be that “once a Cesearean, always a Cesearean,” but no longer. The medical cultural climate, as well as the AMA advice on the subject ebbs and flows, sometimes encouraging, sometimes discouraging attempting a VBAC (vaginal birth after Cesearean). But with the current style of uterine cutting, a VBAC can be ...
Lying in my hospital bed after my second daughter was born, I felt sorry for my roommate who had just had her second baby surgically delivered by cesarean section. Although both of us had our first babies delivered by C-section (my older child was breech and couldn’t be safely turned), my roommate opted to have ...
When I found out I was pregnant only seven months after having a Cesarean section (C-section), I immediately knew I wanted to attempt a vaginal birth after Cesarean (VBAC). I did everything I could to promote my chances of a successful VBAC – kept my weight gain under control, drank red raspberry leaf tea, saw ...
