Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care (Hardcover)
by Jennifer Block (Author)
Born in the USA: How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First (Hardcover)
by Marsden Wagner (Author)
Cesarean Delivery and the Risk–Benefit Calculus New England Journal of Medicine (This information should be considered suspect and self serving)
Interview with Jeffrey Ecker on the contributors to the increase in cesarean deliveries. Author of recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine on the increase in surgical birth – He blames the patients, obesity, multiple births, VBAC, breech, and the mother lode for doctors: lawsuits and what he terms a Malpractice Crisis.
Slide Presentation of Cesarean Delivery at the New England Journal of Medicine
Philadelphia Inquiry: C-section rates nationwide: Go Here
National Institutes of Health
NIH State-of-the-Science Conference: Cesarean Delivery on Maternal Request
March 27-29, 2006
Plus Size Pregnancy Web Site
I have been close to, or well over 200 pounds during the pregnancies of all five of my children. With my first I was 197 on the day I gave birth, and with my fifth I was 260 on the day I gave birth. As a confirmed plus size momma, I believe the larger issue (no pun intended), is what the mother is eating during pregnancy, more than her actual weight. If a mother is eating the Brewer diet during pregnancy she will prevent Toxemia, no matter what her size is.
I am one of those moms who puffs out with the fluids of breastmilk, and generally put on twenty to thirty pounds after the birth while I breastfeed (All mammels do this), and I actually lose weight (usually about 20 pounds) while pregnant, have done this for my last four pregnancies. I have a full figured body and weighed 170 pounds on my wedding day, so I believe these weights have been normal for my body type. Plus size mothers are bullied into surgery during birth like no other group of women in America.