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...increases the risk of a number of age-related diseases, including cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes and osteoarthritis. Ordinary obesity--weighing at least 20% more than you should--correlates with milder forms of these diseases as well as with increased incidence of postmenopausal breast cancer and cancer of the uterus, colon, kidney and esophagus. But what is normal, and how much should you weigh...
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...
This is where it gets tricky. On the one hand, an epidural can 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...
...case, we waited another hour without any progress before deciding to undergo the 12-min. procedure. My wife felt immediate relief. Her uterus kept contracting, and with the help of a little Pitocin, a medication to speed up labor, we were in business. She was able to get some rest without pain while her body continued to push the baby down and open up her cervix. Less than three hours later, her doctor gave us the news we had been waiting to hear: we were ready to have a baby. My wife pushed hard, feeling pressure but no pain...
...very conceivable that scientific advances will allow an embryo to be grown for a substantial period of time outside the uterus,” Romney said in the Boston Globe. “To say that it is not life at one month or two months or four months or full term, just because it had never been in an uterus, would be absurd...