After you’ve had a cesarean section, the doctors in the hospital will provide you with adequate pain relief, but what about once you go home? The doctor will provide a medicine that will relieve the pain at home, but the medicine will stop long before the pain, and you will know how to relieve the […]
Tag Archives: Cesarean
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Cesarean sections may seem simple enough, but there are many different ways that they can be performed and the scars left by the cesarean vary greatly. The direction and type of scar a woman has may affect her ability to birth vaginally with subsequent pregnancies. The scars that deviate from the typical low-transverse are often […]
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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 […]
Pregnancy brings about many life changing experiences and emotions. For many women, the bodily change process involved with pregnancy can be, at times, overwhelming. For many women, delivery of a newborn by cesarean section, also known as c-section, brings about additional health issues, including bodily changes, for which a woman may not have anticipated. This […]
Having a cesarean section is different for every woman. In fact, having a cesarean birth is different in each pregnancy. I know from experience that my first planned c-section due to a breech presentation resulted in a much more difficult recovery than my second c-section, which was also due to my baby’s breech presentation. Whether […]
According to the Center for Disease Control, in 2005 there were more than 4 million live births. Of those births, more than one million, or greater than 30 percent, were by cesarean section. Accordingly, pregnant women should be educated about the possibility of a cesarean section, what a c-section birth entails, and what her options […]