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Baby Dayz - June 2009

Have You Thought About Free Birth?

June 7th 2009 02:41

Obstetricians and patients are feuding like two wet cats in a bag. Why? Because some women are trying to take back the control over their bodies and choosing to free birth their children. Freebirthing is the process of having children without the aid of any medical attendance. The process is risky and complications can occur, but for how many years were children born at home to moms with cooks or housekeepers overseeing the entire process?

Free birth is not an option for every mother. There are some very serious free birth risks associated with choosing no prenatal care and no medical help at the birth of the baby.

I am one of those people that likes to stay out of the way of a pregnant mother. If the process of having a free birth is something that enthralls the mom, she should research the process and find out just how much she is in for.

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Stomach the Size of an Egg and Pregnant

June 3rd 2009 02:18

More and more women are facing the reality that they are unable to lose the weight they have gained without some sort of help. This realization leads them to the bariatric surgeon who snips this and reroutes that and voila, the weight melts away. While the surgery nor the weight loss are that easy, the real problems begin when pregnancy happens too soon.

Most women who undergo gastric bypass are told not to become pregnant until at least 18 months after the surgery. This is required to keep baby healthy and gives mom enough time to lose the weight and return to a somewhat normal eating schedule.

If mom gets pregnant before then, there can be some very real side effects on the pregnancy.

* Mom is only eating 600 calories a day.
* Mom cannot stop the weight loss.
* Mom does not absorb enough vitamins and nutrients for her own body.

These are only a few of the obstacles that will be faced during the pregnancy after gastric bypass. But, rest assured, the bariatric surgeon will work with the obstetrician and ensure baby is healthy.

In most cases where mom gets pregnant soon after gastric bypass, intravenous nutrition is needed to keep baby healthy which could mean a longer stay in the hospital and a more costly pregnancy.

Baby Dayz - June 2009

Have You Thought About Free Birth?

Stomach the Size of an Egg and Pregnant

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