Washington State now has a 25% cesarean rate, with a disproportionated increase in the Puget Sound area. The Seattle PI article also mentions the rate has risen by 6% every year for the last decade or so.
BOLD puts on a play called Birth which is the vagina monologues of birth (er). From the website:
"[Karen] Brody wrote Birth after interviewing 118 women across America about their birth stories. The play tells the story of eight of those women, representing the spectrum of experience among low-risk, educated, birthing women in the US today. Each performance is followed by a talk-back, giving audience members a chance to discuss pertinent issues from the play."
Birth will be playing in Seattle on September 5th, 6th, and 7th, and in many other locations on various dates.
This is a very interesting research article from Ohio State University that reveals that mothers play kind of a "gate-keeping" role when it comes to how much the fathers are involved in taking care of their infants. Apparently, the best way to get the dad involved is to have the mom actively support him in it and not do things such as roll her eyes when he puts on the diaper backwards (again. :o)
And from the amazing births file, a Nigerian woman, who thought she was having twins (as her doctors so concluded from the ultrasounds), naturally birthed three babies--two were unfortunately conjoined at the chest and abdomen. One of the doctors expressed she should have had a cesarean because she was so weak afterward. My first thought at that was "So you want to take away one of her victories she gained on a day that was so very hard for her?" Not to mention recovering from cesarean is no breeze in itself.
Birth control affects pheromones receptors--normally, women are attracted to the scent of men who are genetically dissimilar to themselves. On birth control, women shift to the scent of men who have more genetic similarities to them. {Did I mention that this site will also cover pre-conception issues?}
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