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Reading About Cesarean Birth…

It’s been a week for articles of interest about Cesareans:

UNICEF has issued a new report: State of the World’s Children 2009: Maternal and Newborn Health, which reiterates the UN recommendation for a cesarean rate range of 5% to 15%. (Average rates in the US are above 30%.)

Time Magazine has an article in its latest issue [...]

Speedy Delivery Man

Check out this local story to read a recent example of a time birth just worked. And my apologies in advance for the pun.

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Buyer Beware

The Chicago Tribune printed this story on Tuesday about a local woman whose doctor reportedly denied her pain meds in labor and told her to “Shut up, close your mouth and push.”

He reportedly also berated the hospital staff. I wonder if that is newsspeak for he yelled at a nurse. So not cool to yell [...]