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Failure to progress is a medical term describing the situation in which the cervix--the opening of the uterus--is not dilating fast enough and the baby is not descending. By midnight the next night, 23 hours after that first pinch, my wife had barely progressed, although she was having contractions every five 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...
...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...
...procedure involved opening the cervix followed by the baby being pulled out feet first and delivering the legs, body, shoulders and arms. When the baby’s head is lodged in the cervix, the doctor takes curved scissors and inserts the scissors into the base of the skull and spreads the scissors to enlarge the opening. The doctor then removes the scissors, inserts a suction catheter into the hole and vacuums out the content of the skull which causes it to collapse, and the rest of the baby is pulled out of the cervix. It is important for readers...
...slide show was chilling: a cervix with precancerous lesions, shriveled fallopian tubes. But what made Seth Claude and his friends really blanch was a penis covered in sores and distended like an autumn gourd. "Before, I just thought if you got genital warts, maybe you had one or two, but then I saw the person with a bajillion of them and was, like, 'Whoa,'" says Seth, 13. "[The pictures] are enough to make you have nightmares...
...result of being exposed to secondhand smoke resembled those that developed as a result of active smoking, reinforcing the link between passive smo ki ng and increased cancer risks. The study also found a link between passive smoking and cancer in the nasopharynx, nasal cavity, paranasal sinuses, cervix, gastrointestinal tract and breast...