Anything that makes birth less traumatic for the baby is a good thing in my opinion. It would seem logical that this innovation would be greatly appreciated by those mothers who need to have a section.
Here is the link to the Natural Cesarean article in BBC News.
Doctors at Queen Charlotte’s hospital in London are pioneering “natural caesarean” births with the aim of making the surgery less traumatic for mother and baby.
Normally, after the incision, babies are delivered rapidly behind a screen. But in this case the parents, Sheri and Jason Tan, are able to watch the baby’s head emerge.
Queen Charlotte’s says the natural caesarean is now becoming an established procedure at the hospital.
When I gave birth to my second child by c-section, I asked to be able to hold her for a few minutes after the surgery, but the pediatrician wanted to suck out her lungs with the little tube, so I was able to give her a little kiss on the cheek and then they took her over to the station where the baby sucker was and that doctor just kept jabbing it into her throat. It felt like she was doing this baby torture forever, and after a few minutes she said she wanted to put her under oxygen in the nursery, so Paul carried her down to the nursery while I was stapled back together. When I arrived in my room after the surgery I told them to bring me my baby and I pretty much kept her in my arms or in my room for the four days I was in the hospital after the birth.
My husband or my mother stayed with me the whole time and I had a reasonable recovery. The most difficult experience of all, after having a knife in my belly, was walking up the three flights of stairs to our little third floor walk up apartment once we arrived back home.
By the time I was up to the third set of stairs I was bawling, Paul kept helping me lift my legs, and as soon as I made it into the apartment I did not come out again for three weeks.
We had a c-section after twenty hours of labor because I had refused to have an ultrasound during my pregnancy and it was discovered during labor that she was breech.
Jenny Hatch
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Mitt Romney: Florida Debate
Hugh Hewitt believes Romney hit a home run last night.
QUOTE:
“But it was the series of questions directed at Romney 70 minutes into the debate –on his personal spending and on the Mormon issue– that allowed Romney to dominated a long stretch without a stumble and to display his passion and convictions, as well as to again confront the Mormon issue in a very persuasive fashion.
Romney’s slam of “General Hillary Clinton” and subsequent attacks on Hillary’s “old Europe” beliefs was a memorable and effective display of the sort of energy and tactics the GOP candidate must make every day for the next eight months. Romney and Giuliani both displayed the ability to take on both Clintons as well as a command of every issue that came their way. Romney’s question to Rudy about China was a superb use of the moment to underscore the complexity of the issue and to display a graciousness and seriousness that was attractive, one that was also effectively noted by Rudy.”
Coulter has some issues with McCain
Michelle Obama takes issue with the Clintons
New York Times endorses Clinton and McCain, why am I not surprised???
I am highly supportive of Romney.
Post Debate analysis:
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Healthy Families Make A Healthy World!
RIP Heath
The Patriot is one of my favorite movies. Here is a video of Gabrial clips from the movie.
The lead character played by Heath, is one of my all time favorite male roles, and he played it perfectly!
Rest in Peace Actor Ledger. May the senseless deaths end soon as the business learns how to find the balance for actors and performers. My prayer is that in the future every actor will be trained in how to balance adrenaline and the highs and lows demanded by performance with whole foods nutrition, herbal therapies, and proper sleep rather than drugs and alchohol.
Jenny Hatch
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American Spectator: What about those Mormon HORNS?
Evangelicals Against Mitt
People are funny!
One such concerned evangelical, Tricia Erickson, was raised in the Mormon faith but left as an adult. She has attended the McLean Bible Church in northern Virginia. Erickson adamantly opposes the LDS church, which she considers a brainwashing cult. She has launched a media blitz designed to discredit Romney based on his religion.
In an interview, Erickson told me that Romney has “got the image. He’s a good business man. He has the coiffed hair with every hair in place. … He has a pretty, blonde Mormon wife; he has a chiseled face. He is very polished. He has that image which Mormons develop through the Mormon Church to present to the public to give credibility to the religion.”
I’m wondering which Non-Public face Ms. Erickson thinks the church tells us to hide away from prying eyes. Could it be something like this?
Click on the image to learn WHO this nasty fellow is.
Bill Keller, evangelical host of the Florida-based “Live Prayer TV.” Last year he told his reported 2.4 million e-mail subscribers that a vote for Romney would mean a vote for Satan.
“The presidency is the most powerful position in the world,” Keller explained to me. “If Romney was elected president, it would give mainstream credibility and acceptance to the Mormon cult and lead millions of people into that cult.”
WOW, Cult, Satan, brainwashing…these are strong words. When I was a little girl my mother taught me how to hide my horns really well under my hair. It is just part of mormonism. We don’t want our children to be identified as satan worshippers, so we cover up the evidence as much as possible…once in a while bald men and new born children will be unable to cover the horns up, so we use hats and fake wigs to keep up the facade.
Carrie Sheffield, a member of the LDS Church, is a writer living in Washington, D.C. and she finished up the piece by saying:
“The LDS church is likely to continue its current modest-but-impressive growth whether or not Romney wins the White House. Perhaps the only real worry for evangelicals is that, if elected, the former Massachusetts governor will demonstrate to Americans that Mormons don’t have horns.”
Jenny Hatch
Free Republic Thread on this topic
Well, isn’t that Special….. (click on the image!)
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Motherwear Blog: From Afghanistan with LOVE
Standard-Times photo by Patrick Dove
Every two weeks since early September 2007, young Silas Bohl has received a special package from halfway around the world. His mother, Capt. Ginger Bohl, is deployed with the Air Force in Afghanistan. The packages contain 30 to 40 pounds of frozen breast milk that travels in a convoluted, globe-trotting shipping route from the war zone to the Bohls’ home. Ginger Bohl’s deployment wraps up in mid-January, and she hopes to be back in San Angelo in time for Silas’ first birthday.
Standard-Times photo by Patrick Dove
Mike Bohl unpacks a cooler of frozen breast milk with his son Silas in their San Angelo home. The milk comes from Bohl’s wife, Air Force Capt. Ginger Bohl, who is deployed in Afghanistan.
From Afghanistan with love.
Thanks to reader Kelly in Nevada, here’s a pretty inspiring story for you:
Air Force Captain Ginger Bohl, deployed to Afghanistan in August when her son was about 6 months old, has been sending pumped milk back to him ever since.
The San Angelo, Texas Standard Times reports:
“It’s my wife,” says Michael Bohl, her husband and Silas’ father. “She is an amazing woman – her spirit, her faith, everything about her just shines.”
Ginger Bohl, an Air Force captain, is an active-duty doctor deployed in Afghanistan from Goodfellow Air Force Base. Since leaving in late August, Bohl has sent home biweekly shipments of her breast milk, frozen and shipped in 30- to 40-pound quantities directly to the Bohl family.
Thirty-five pounds of milk is about 4 gallons’ worth. This delicate commodity makes it halfway across the planet, a distance of more than 8,000 miles, in just three short days.
The father notes that Ginger has been very lucky to have an power and a freezer at her post, and that the family is lucky to be able to afford the shipping costs. He suggests a moratorium on deployment for breastfeeding mothers beyond the current four month limit. He also notes that the importation hasn’t always been smooth:
Shipments have been held up by customs and the USDA because of the potential for infectious diseases.
“There’s one guy at JFK (airport in New York City) who is now very informed about the benefits of breast-feeding and why we needed the milk right away,” Bohl said. “I was even sent to the IRS to get the milk because they thought we were running some kind of Afghani breast-milk ring.”
Ginger Bohl will return home in a few days. Her husband says:
“She’s been gone for so long, nearly half of his life,” Bohl said. “Every time he hears her on the TV [through a webcast], he crawls up to touch it. He knows her face and her voice. He knows his mommy. I know it won’t be a problem.”
Jenny Hatch
Just a little comment. Mothers in the military should not be sent away from babies under three years of age!!! This is absolutely nuts.
