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...minutes. We asked three different doctors how slow was too slow, and we got three different answers. Every time her obstetrician performed an exam, she would shake her head and say nothing had really changed. My wife was worried that the doctors would start using the c-word (for caesarean section). She was tired and cranky, and worst of all for both of us, she was in pain...
...relax the laboring uterus just enough to allow a woman to push harder and more efficiently without suffering too much pain. On the other hand, it can relax the muscles of the uterus to the point where contractions cease, causing progression to fail and increasing the likelihood of a caesarean. I'm a doctor, but I was struck by just how difficult this decision is for the patient--and her husband--as we sat there in the middle of the night conferring with her obstetrician...
...estranges many people in Europe. But Europeans, too, have struggled to find the proper balance between the right to life and the right to die. In 1974, Dutch mother-to-be Ineke Stinissen fell into a deep coma after problems with the anesthetic administered during her caesarean section. A year later, her husband Gerard asked that her feeding tube be removed, seeing no hope of her regaining consciousness. Stinissen's doctors refused on ethical grounds. Amid impassioned public debate, Gerard fought for his wife's right to die until late 1989, when a Dutch court ruled that tube feeding constitutes...
Labor is a famously painful thing, and for 30 years epidurals--painkilling spinal injections--have made it easier. But some people are worried that an epidural given too early can slow labor and increase the odds of a caesarean birth. A recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine, however, found that women who receive an epidural before their cervix is dilated to 4 cm have no greater chance of a C-section than women...
...later reduced to $4.2 million) for a child born with brain damage and later diagnosed with cerebral palsy. Edwards maintained that the doctor who delivered her should have more closely attended the fetal-heart monitor, which would have indicated the infant's distress, and should have opted for a caesarean delivery, which might have prevented the damage...