My Caesarean Twenty One Mothers On The C Section Experience And After

Author : Amanda Fields,Rachel Moritz
Publisher : The Experiment, LLC
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781615195534

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My Caesarean: Twenty-One Mothers on the C-Section Experience and After by Amanda Fields,Rachel Moritz Pdf

Twenty-one vivid, moving essays on caesarean birth “No one talks about C-sections as surgery,” writes SooJin Pate. “They talk about it as if it’s just another way—albeit more convenient way—of giving birth.” The twenty-one essays in My Caesarean add back to the conversation the missing voices of a vast, invisible sisterhood. Robin Schoenthaler reflects: “A C-section for us meant life.” And yet, women who don’t give birth vaginally—by choice or necessity—often feel stigmatized. “My son’s birth was not a test I needed to pass,” writes Sara Bates. “As if growing a human inside another human for nine months then caring for it the rest of its life isn’t enough,” adds Mary Pan, herself a physician. Alongside their personal stories, the writers—decorated novelists, poets, and essayists—address the history of the C-section as well as its risks, social inequities, impact on the body, and psychological aftermath. My Caesarean is a heartfelt meditation, offering much-needed comfort through shared experience. Contributors include: Catherine Newman, Judy Batalion, Nicole Cooley, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Lisa Solod, Misty Urban, Jacinda Townsend, Mary Pan, Robin Schoenthaler, Elizabeth Noll, Jen Fitzgerald, Tyrese Coleman, SooJin Pate, Daniela Montoya-Barthelemy, Cameron Dezen Hammon, LaToya Jordan, Sara Bates, Susan Hoffmann, and Alicia Jo Rabins.

Author : Maureen Connolly,Dana Sullivan
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-10
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780307484352

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The Essential C-Section Guide by Maureen Connolly,Dana Sullivan Pdf

Childbirth is a life-altering experience for any woman, but a Cesarean delivery can be overwhelming, whether it’s unexpected or planned. Despite the fact that roughly one in four babies in the United States is delivered by c-section, very little information about the experience is included in typical pregnancy books and physicians and childbirth educators often gloss over the details. The Essential C-Section Guide is written not only for women to read in preparation for a scheduled c-section and for those considered “high risk” who know that a c-section may become necessary but also for women recovering from an unexpected surgical delivery. This book provides answers to important questions about what the surgery entails, what a woman can expect as she recovers, and what considerations should be made for future pregnancies and deliveries. With frank discussions about the physical and emotional aspects surrounding a c-section, the authors share comforting wisdom about early bonding, pain control, breastfeeding, infant care, healing from surgery, postpartum exercise, partner involvement, and much more, in detail not available anywhere else. Written by authors who have firsthand knowledge of birth by c-section, The Essential C-Section Guide is well-researched and addresses its unique concerns with intelligence and compassion. www.broadwaybooks.com

Author : Caroline Oblasser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3902943521

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C-Section Moms - Caesarean mothers in words and photographs by Caroline Oblasser Pdf

C-Section Moms - Caesarean mothers in words and photographs Photo book, guide and a treasure trove of experiences for pregnant women, mothers and obstetricians Collected experiences of 162 Caesarean mothers - Comprehensive, clear and honest Mothers with one, two, three or four Caesareans aged between 20 and 77 / Experiences after emergency, elective and planned Caesarean sections / Spontaneous birth after a C-Section (VBAC) / Aesthetic photographs of 60 different Caesarean scars / The "gentle Caesarean section" Photo report of a Caesarean section using the "Misgav Ladach" method / PLUS: Caesarean surgery: Preparation, procedure, aftercare ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS BY PARTICIPATING CAESAREAN MOTHERS "Thank you for this book - a great idea. Thank you for your work and initiative. You helped me accept my Caesarean fate' in its entirety." 47 years, 1 Caesarean "A book by women - for women!" 35 years, 1 Caesarean "It is always good to chat to other Caesarean mothers and, despite all the different experiences, to come to the conclusion that this was the best way to deliver a healthy child! Good luck with your book!" 36 years, 2 Caesareans "It feels so good to be able to share experiences with like-minded people." 50 years, 2 Caesareans "Through this project I have been able to remember a lot of things that I experienced 40 years ago. An interesting project!" 65 years, 2 Caesareans "Good luck with the book! I think this is exactly what expectant mummies need." 28 years, 2 children, 1 Caesarean "The scar on the outside is not the same as the inner scar - Thanks for the experience." 29 years, 3 Caesareans

Author : Allison Yarrow
Publisher : Seal Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781541619326

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Birth Control by Allison Yarrow Pdf

"Supported by ample data and suffused with anger,” an award-winning journalist “convincingly recasts this country’s maternal health care system as needlessly dehumanizing” (New York Times Book Review). Modern medicine should make pregnancy and childbirth safer for all. But in Birth Control, award-winning journalist Allison Yarrow reveals how women are controlled, traumatized, injured, and even killed because of the traditionalist practices of medical professionals and hospitals. Ever since doctors stole control of birth from midwives in the 19th century, women have been steamrolled by a male-dominated medical establishment that has everyone convinced that birthing bodies are inherently flawed and that every pregnancy is a crisis that it alone can “solve.” Common medical practices and procedures violate human rights and the law, yet take place daily. Misogyny and racism, not scientific evidence and support, shape the overwhelming majority of America’s four million annual births. Drawing on extensive reporting, expert interviews, an original survey of 1,300 mothers, and her own personal experiences, Yarrow documents how modern maternal health care is insidiously, purposefully designed to take power from women to the detriment of their physical and mental health—not just during labor, but for years after. She then shows a better way, exploring solutions both cutting-edge and ancient to—finally—return power and control to birthing people. Full of urgent insights and heartfelt emotion, Birth Control is an explosive call to action.

Author : Jacqueline H. Wolf
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781421425528

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Cesarean Section by Jacqueline H. Wolf Pdf

Cesarean Section is the first book to chronicle this history. In exploring the creation of the complex social, cultural, economic, and medical factors leading to the surgery’s increase, Jacqueline H. Wolf describes obstetricians’ reliance on assorted medical technologies that weakened the skills they had traditionally employed to foster vaginal birth. She also reflects on an unsettling malpractice climate—prompted in part by a raft of dubious diagnoses—that helped to legitimize "defensive medicine," and a health care system that ensured cesarean birth would be more lucrative than vaginal birth. In exaggerating the risks of vaginal birth, doctors and patients alike came to view cesareans as normal and, increasingly, as essential. Sweeping change in women’s lives beginning in the 1970s cemented this markedly different approach to childbirth.

Author : Hélène Vadeboncoeur,Helene Vadeboncoeur
Publisher : Fresh Heart Publishing
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781906619206

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Birthing Normally After a Cesarean Or Two (American Edition) by Hélène Vadeboncoeur,Helene Vadeboncoeur Pdf

Book discusses VBAC (vaginal birth after caesarean).

Author : Eric Jauniaux,William A. Grobman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780198758563

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Textbook of Caesarean Section by Eric Jauniaux,William A. Grobman Pdf

Caesarean Section has become the most common major operation in the world, and with the increasing number there are many serious and long-term healthcare implications for gynaecology, general surgery, neonatology, and epigenetics. A full perspective of the procedure and its consequences is therefore essential for practitioners, residents, and trainees alike. The Textbook of Caesarean Section is the key textbook on this subject, and is an informative and practical tool for clinicians performing this procedure in all areas of the world. The accompanying professional medical videos demonstrate in clear and expert detail the two alternative procedures for caesarean section, ensuring that readers of this book gain an in-depth understanding of the techniques involved, and supporting blended learning in postgraduate education globally. Written by a distinguished team of expert contributors, this book carefully describes current best practice for caesarean section alongside key chapters on the history of caesarean section, and other important and related issues that obstetricians must be aware of, such as anaesthesia, prevention of complications of surgery, reproduction after C-section, and perinatal outcomes. The text is extensively illustrated with colour images, and fully referenced throughout, providing all the information essential for the reader to perform the optimal caesarean delivery procedures, and diagnose and manage the short- and long-term complications associated with different methods of caesarean sections.

Author : Leigh East
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0956848001

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Caesarean Birth by Leigh East Pdf

Caesareans are a possible outcome of any birth. Even the most straightforward pregnancy can end this way. Being prepared for such an eventuality can significantly improve your chances of viewing a caesarean birth positively. Unfortunately many antenatal classes and birth books give very little information about caesareans, leaving women unprepared for this mode of birth. This book has the facts and lots of ideas to help you prepare and recover: - Why prepare for a caesarean birth? - How to make the most of a caesarean birth, should you have one - How to avoid a caesarean if possible - How to improve your recovery - What a caesarean birth is and why it might be necessary - The benefits and risks of vaginal versus caesarean birth - The implications of caesareans on future births Covering every aspect of caesareans this book will help you to make confident, informed decisions about your birth. A positive birth experience will put you in a stronger position for your adventure into motherhood. "I am so glad I read this book before my birth. I didn't intend having a caesarean but when it happened I wasn't at all frightened and I fed 'S' in the recovery room. This book thoroughly demystified caesarean birth for me, it is a must read for anyone planning to have a baby and I will definitely be buying it for my friends." Vicki (35) "At long last pregnant women can get the unbiased and easily digestible information they need about caesareans. They can have useful discussions with their healthcare providers and make informed decisions about the birth of their baby" Bryan Beattie (MD FRCOG, Consultant in Fetal Medicine & Director of Innermost Secrets Ltd) "Before reading it I had never considered what might happen if I needed a caesarean. I feel far more confident about my next birth." Samantha (32) "This book should be required reading for professionals to enable them to respond to the needs of an increasingly informed group of women." Christa Greenacre (NCT teacher-retired)

Author : Fay Menacker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Cesarean section
ISBN : UCR:31210022626483

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Recent Trends in Cesarean Delivery in the United States by Fay Menacker Pdf

Author : Jacqueline H. Wolf
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781421438115

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Cesarean Section by Jacqueline H. Wolf Pdf

Drawing on data from nineteenth- and early twentieth-century obstetric logs to better represent the experience of cesarean surgery for women of all classes and races, as well as interviews with obstetricians who have performed cesareans and women who have given birth by cesarean, Cesarean Section is the definitive history of the use of this surgical procedure and its effects on women's and children's health in the United States.

Author : Rachel Cusk
Publisher : Picador
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781466891630

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A Life's Work by Rachel Cusk Pdf

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book, A Life’s Work: On Becoming a Mother is multi-award-winning author Rachel Cusk’s honest memoir that captures the life-changing wonders of motherhood. Selected by the New York Times as one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years The experience of motherhood is an experience in contradiction. It is commonplace and it is impossible to imagine. It is prosaic and it is mysterious. It is at once banal, bizarre, compelling, tedious, comic, and catastrophic. To become a mother is to become the chief actor in a drama of human existence to which no one turns up. It is the process by which an ordinary life is transformed unseen into a story of strange and powerful passions, of love and servitude, of confinement and compassion. In a book that is touching, hilarious, provocative, and profoundly insightful, novelist Rachel Cusk attempts to tell something of an old story set in a new era of sexual equality. Cusk’s account of a year of modern motherhood becomes many stories: a farewell to freedom, sleep, and time; a lesson in humility and hard work; a journey to the roots of love; a meditation on madness and mortality; and most of all a sentimental education in babies, books, toddler groups, bad advice, crying, breastfeeding, and never being alone. “Funny and smart and refreshingly akin to a war diary—sort of Apocalypse Baby Now...A Life’s Work is wholly original and unabashedly true.”—The New York Times Book Review

Author : Ronald S. Gibbs
Publisher : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Page : 1168 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Medical
ISBN : 078176937X

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Danforth's Obstetrics and Gynecology by Ronald S. Gibbs Pdf

A core reference for residents and practitioners for more than 40 years, this volume has been thoroughly revised and reorganized to provide complete, authoritative coverage of the modern clinical practice of obstetrics and gynecology.

Author : Emily Oster
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781101617939

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Expecting Better by Emily Oster Pdf

“Emily Oster is the non-judgmental girlfriend holding our hand and guiding us through pregnancy and motherhood. She has done the work to get us the hard facts in a soft, understandable way.” —Amy Schumer *Fully Revised and Updated for 2021* What to Expect When You're Expecting meets Freakonomics: an award-winning economist disproves standard recommendations about pregnancy to empower women while they're expecting. From the author of Cribsheet and The Family Firm, a data-driven decision making guide to the early years of parenting Pregnancy—unquestionably one of the most pro­found, meaningful experiences of adulthood—can reduce otherwise intelligent women to, well, babies. Pregnant women are told to avoid cold cuts, sushi, alcohol, and coffee without ever being told why these are forbidden. Rules for prenatal testing are similarly unexplained. Moms-to-be desperately want a resource that empowers them to make their own right choices. When award-winning economist Emily Oster was a mom-to-be herself, she evaluated the data behind the accepted rules of pregnancy, and discovered that most are often misguided and some are just flat-out wrong. Debunking myths and explaining everything from the real effects of caffeine to the surprising dangers of gardening, Expecting Better is the book for every pregnant woman who wants to enjoy a healthy and relaxed pregnancy—and the occasional glass of wine.

Author : Helen Churchill,Wendy Savage
Publisher : Pinter & Martin Publishers
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781905177240

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Vaginal Birth After Caesarean by Helen Churchill,Wendy Savage Pdf

Women are over four times more likely to have a caesarean birth than they were some years ago. Intended for women who have had a caesarean or repeat caesareans, this title provides suggestions for constructive ways to achieve vaginal birth when it is the right option for mother and baby.

Author : Robert Bridges
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0080559573

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Neurobiology of the Parental Brain by Robert Bridges Pdf

This book presents cutting edge research on the basic neurobiology of parental behavior as it relates to behavioral disorders, including postpartum depression, anxiety, and inadequate parental bonding to infants. Internationally recognized basic and clinical researchers present new research findings in humans and animals that elucidate the roles of the brain, physiological state, genes and environment in maternal and paternal care. By bridging the gap between basic and clinical research, new understandings of how the biology of the brain and the reproductive state of the parent impact their mental health and the successful rearing of young emerge. * Presents the neural network of motherhood based on fundamental and functional MRI studies of parental care - from rodents to humans * Discusses the role of gene-environment interactions in parenting * Offers parenting strategies and priorities in raising young * Discusses maternal defense - the neurobiology of maternal protection * Examines the significance and underlying causes of postpartum depression * Discusses parenting and anxiety – neurobiological basis for reductions during the postpartum period * Also includes the neurobiology of fatherhood – a fresh evolutionary and biological perspective on paternal behavior * Presents information on maternal neuroplasticity - how reproductive history changes the maternal brain * Translates research – internationally renowned researchers' insights into common factors that regulate mammalian parenting