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The area between the vaginal outlet and rectum called perineum stretches and thins out considerably during labor. Episiotomy is an incision made during the final stages of labor between the vagina and rectum, to facilitate delivery.
When we sleep, most of us dream through the night. But many pregnant women experience very intense dreams throughout their pregnancy. These dreams range from vividly pleasant to nightmarish and bizarre. This is however quite normal.
Why a water birth, you may ask. Have you ever noticed how relaxed you are when you are in a warm bath? This applies to the baby as well. From swimming in the amniotic fluid, he swims into a tub of warm water and is gently picked up by his own mother.
When a pregnant woman cannot deliver her baby the normal way, doctors are forced to make an artificial (surgical) incision in the abdomen.
The heart is put under greater pressure and stress during pregnancy. For a person who is suffering from heart ailments may find it difficult to cope with this pressure.
First used by Dr. Peter Chamberlain in the 16th century in England, very secretively to assist royal births, forceps are used to facilitate babies who pass the pelvic bones but find it difficult to pass through the entire birth canal.
The idea of having twins is always fascinating. It seems mysterious how one pregnancy can result in more than one baby. Being pregnant is itself a blessing, but when you are pregnant with twins, you are doubly blessed, aren’t you?
When a pregnant woman cannot deliver her baby the normal way, doctors are forced to make an artificial (surgical) incision in the abdomen. Such a delivery is known a Caesarean section.
Birth is a major transition for both mother and baby. Before your baby is born, the process leading up to his birth and the delivery of the placenta is called labor.
Breast-feeding has been known to be an effective means of contraception from time immemorial. It is recorded that Aristotle wrote, "While women are suckling children, menstruation does not occur nor do they conceive; if they do conceive, the milk dries up." In rural India and some other countries in the third world, this is the only contraceptive that the women use to space their pregnancies.
Every month, the uterus is prepared for pregnancy, and if pregnancy does not occur the interlining sheds off. This is menstruation. Problems related to menstruation should not be ignored. In fact, one should not wait for more than two cycles before contacting the doctor for menstrual irregularity.
