Vaginal delivery may be OK after C-section
July 23, 2010 by cbowman
Filed under Headlines, Pregnancy & Childbirth
By Serena Gordon
HealthDay Reporter by Serena Gordon
healthday Reporter – Wed Jul 21, 11:48 pm ET
WEDNESDAY, July 21 (HealthDay News) — Many women who’ve had a Cesarean section may be candidates for vaginal birth in future pregnancies, say new guidelines from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
“These guidelines emphasize again that a trial of labor after Cesarean is an important option for most women,” said one of the authors of the new guidelines, Dr. Jeffrey Ecker, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
Currently, almost one in three mothers delivers by Cesarean in the United States, according to the study.
More recent studies have supported the idea that many women can successfully deliver vaginally after having had a Cesarean, explained Dr. William Grobman, another author of the new guidelines and an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
In March, a National Institutes of Health panel came to the same conclusion and said that a Cesarean delivery in the past doesn’t mean a woman must automatically have one in subsequent pregnancies
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Calming the back-to-school jitters
By Diane Griffith, Staff Writer, myOptumHealth
Some kids welcome the start of a new school year with the same enthusiasm as the first day of summer vacation. Others dread the day and start showing signs of rattled nerves come mid-August.
If your child is less than happy about the coming school year, you may be able to help by working with him on coping strategies to deal with his feelings.
For tips on how you can help, click here to read the rest of this article
Tantrum-free kids in 21 days
Educational psychologist Michele Borba, author of 23 child-rearing books, maintains that kids’ bad behaviour habits can be re-set using “the Rule of 21.” By that she means it takes at least 21 days of time, effort and consistency for parents to teach their children how to replace negative behaviour with positive performance.
The payoff is permanent change, she says.
Michele recently shared several tips on how to change your child’s bad behavior with the Star Phoenix.
Study: ADHD Linked to Pesticides (CNN.com)
May 17, 2010 by cbowman
Filed under Headlines, Kids' Health
May 17, 2010 7:10 a.m. EDT
(Health.com) — Children exposed to higher levels of a type of pesticide found in trace amounts on commercially grown fruit and vegetables are more likely to have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder than children with less exposure, a nationwide study suggests.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Kids with above-average levels of a common pesticide byproduct had twice ADHD risk
- Direct cause-and-effect link “really hard to establish,” expert says
- Study is first to examine the effects of pesticide exposure in population at large
