If you’re a mom-to-be with your heart set on a vaginal birth, the news that your baby needs (or may need) to be delivered by C-section might feel disappointing. Visions of childbirth the way you've ...
Childbirth is no walk in the park—no matter how your baby is delivered. There is a stigma around Cesarean deliveries, or c-sections, that incorrectly assumes they are “the easy way out,” but that is ...
When journalist and professor Rachel Somerstein had an emergency C-section with her first child, the anesthesia didn't work. She says she could literally feel the operation as it was happening. Later, ...
There's no correct way to give birth. Whether you opt for a cesarean section, forgo drugs, or go the home birth route, every birth is unique and special in its own right. Still, one mom was left ...
Nothing about having babies has been easy for me. After struggling with unexplained infertility for a year and a half, my first pregnancy ended in an unplanned cesarean section. So, the second time ...
One mom called the "gentle" C-section experience "amazing." — -- When Tara Martinez gave birth to her second child, she was able to watch the birth and have immediate skin-to-skin contact with ...
The symptoms can occur months or even years after the surgery. Credit...Getty Images Supported by By Melinda Wenner Moyer Q: I had a C-section about a year ago, but my scar still sometimes hurts, ...
C-sections can save lives, but sometimes they're not needed, WHO says. — -- Stephanie Dulli knew she needed a cesarean section shortly after learning that her unborn son was in a "jackknifed" ...
A new mom questioned if she was wrong for confronting her boyfriend about the comments he made regarding how she gave birth to their son. Posting to Reddit, the 25-year-old woman claimed that her ...
Amanda Ilestedt says she hopes she ‘can inspire other women to see that you don’t have to choose between motherhood and a professional football career’ - Getty Images/Catherine Ivill You hear stories ...