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Cesarean Section And Recovery
Health Encyclopedia: C Section
Abdominal delivery; Abdominal birth; Cesarean section
Expectations after surgery
Most mothers and infants recover well, with few problems.
Women who have C-section deliveries can often have a normal vaginal delivery with later pregnancies, depending on the type of C-section performed and the reason the C-section was performed.
About two-thirds of women who attempt a vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) delivery are successful. However, ther...
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Expert & Community Posts
Having the baby!
By Kelsey Bonilla , Health Expert...was really large (red light) then he would advise a cesarean section. Luckily, after the... Read more »
Pregnancy and Herpes
By Charlotte Grayson, M.D. , Health Expert...time of delivery, most health experts recommend a cesarean section to prevent the baby from... Read more »
IBD in the News
By Elizabeth Roberts , Health Expert...with IBD (60%) than among women without IBD (68%). Cesarean section was more common among women... Read more »
Book Review: What Atul Gawande's Newest Book Means for Breast Cancer Patients and Survivors
By PJ Hamel , Health Expert...ingenuity. He uses an account of a baby’s birth via Cesarean section to detail the ways... Read more »
Health Care Reform – How Will It Affect Chronic Pain Patients?
By Karen Lee Richards , Health Expert...other diagnostic tools• Significantly limiting Cesarean sections• Limiting the use of... Read more »
Health Guide
Eating Disorders: Complications of Anorexia
...anorexia becomes pregnant before regaining normal weight, she faces a higher risk for miscarriage, cesarean section, and for having an infant with low birth weight or birth defects. She is also at... Read more »Herpes Simplex: Risk Factors
...and the mother's condition around the time of delivery:If lesions are present at the time of birth, Cesarean section is usually recommended. An important 13-year study confirmed that this approach... Read more »Birth Control Options for Women: Female Sterilization
...difference in length, regularity, flow, or cramping. (One study suggested that women with a history of Cesarean section may experience slightly heavier bleeding.) Sterilization does not offer... Read more »Uterine Fibroids and Hysterectomy: Other Procedures
...a quarter of the women carry their babies to term. Women who become pregnant face a higher risk for cesarean section or miscarriage. It isunclear whether laparoscopic myomectomy weakens the... Read more »Endometriosis: Hysterectomy
...removal of the uterus and is the second most frequently performed surgery in premenopausal women. (Cesarean sections are first.) About 600,000 hysterectomies are performed each year in the US,... Read more »Images
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