PTSD After Childbirth...

Do you have flashbacks or nightmares about your baby’s birth? Do avoid your baby because he/she reminds you of your traumatic experience? Are you having fantasies about hurting the baby, or yourself? Do you have difficulty concentrating? Are you unusually irritable, angry or depressed? Then you may have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) from your childbirth experience. But you are not alone! What you are going through is real, and there is hope for healing. Don’t give up!

Friday, September 25, 2009

Risk of Postpartum Bleeding Higher After Cesarean - Study suggests induction also increases risk of severe hemorrhage - Modern Medicine

Study suggests induction also increases risk of severe hemorrhage

Publish date: Sep 24, 2009

THURSDAY, Sept. 24 (HealthDay News) -- The risk of severe postpartum hemorrhage increases after induction and pre-labor cesarean section, according to a study in the September issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Iqbal Al-Zirqi, M.D., from the University of Oslo in Norway, and colleagues analyzed data on 307,415 Norwegian mothers to determine the risk of severe postpartum hemorrhage (defined as a visually estimated blood loss of greater than 1500 mL within 24 hours after delivery or the need for a blood transfusion) based on labor onset and delivery mode…