Being born en-caul is often referred to as having a veil at birth.
What it means is that the mom-to-be’s water didn’t break and the baby is still in the amniotic sac. Being born with a caul(a part of the sac covering a porting of the baby) is rare, occurring in fewer than 1 in 80,000 births.
Moms who opt for a natural birth over a cesarean section are making a smarter choice, literally for their babies. According to a new research, natural birth triggers the expression of a protein in newborns that helps in brain development throughout their lives.
Expectant Mothers in South Korea are waiting anxiously for their babies to be born on the 11th day of the 11th month of the year 2011, for they believe that this will ensure a unique lifelong identity of 111111 for their children. The pressure is so great, that many expectant parents are even ready to forgo giving birth naturally to have a caesarean section on the significant date.
The myth surrounding a cesarean birth is that if once a woman has a C-section, she has to have the surgery for all subsequent births. Now, recent changes in national guidelines are prompting more women who have previously had c-sections to try to give birth vaginally, and more providers are willing to offer the choice.
There has not been a lot of pharmaceutical advancement within the field of labor for the last sixty years, since the development of ‘synthetic’ Oxytocin. However researchers in Switzerland have recently discovered a test that enables Doctors to examine levels of lactic acid in amniotic fluid.
Hospital staff at a UK hospital got a bit of a surprise last week when one of their laboring moms welcomed a baby that was DOUBLE the size of the average newborn.
In an unbelievable story that could have been written for a satirical movie, two North Carolina doctors are under review after a patient was induced, given an epidural and then opened up for delivery just to find that she wasn’t pregnant.
With more and more women opting for induced labor instead of waiting for the natural process of birth to occur, a study conducted by Dr. J. Christopher Glantz at the University of Rochester School of Medicine states that the chances of more caesareans automatically increases.
Celly Reid’s “miracle baby” is on the road to a full recovery after life saving heart surgery. Little Amy is the fourth child for Reid and her husband Angus of Macduff, Banffshire, Scotland.
For one family at Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs, miracles do still happen.
Even though I am into my 3rd trimester, the thought of having a breech baby hadn’t occurred to me until I read an article about it while waiting for my OB. Because my last guy arrived so early, complications like feet first hadn’t even occurred to me until today. While breech babies only make up [...]
