Image by Threadless.com Welcome back to the finest little chuckwagon medicine show this side of the Rio Grande. It's the Snake Oil Bulletin! This week, we bring you a fine concoction of pregnancy woo, all bundled up snug as a bug in a gluten-free hypoallergenic doula-sewn rug. Let's brace ourselves, take a few deep breaths, grit our teeth and PUSH our way into our first story.
Oh boy. 25% of preggers are Group B strep positive in the final weeks of pregnancy. And only 63% of term mothers are screened for it. 44% of preterm. In an unplanned c-section situation, if I am understanding correctly, the rapid GBS test misses ~10% of the cases. If you don't know your GBS status, and especially if it's positive, don't wipe your potentially fatal/brain damaging vag goo on babby ladies, ok?http://contemporaryobgyn.mo...
I don't know, but I doubt it. They have some strange post-natal practices in South America that I read about in National Geographic years ago, but I don't remember the details now.
Considering how unclean the water was in most places, I don't blame them. The Ancient Persians thought Alexander the Great's troops were filthy barbarians because they would wade into the rivers to bathe, and would urinate and defecate near water sources, which polluted the waters for residents downstream and poisoned nearby wells.
There is, believe me. Midwives almost never perform episiotomies. Massage the outlet with sterile olive oil or sterile mineral oil to relax the pelvic floor muscles during labor, control the baby's emergence with slow, gentle pushes as the midwife gently massages the vagina open and carefully manipulates it around the baby's head, and slow release of the shoulders should do it. And tearing is usually better than an episiotomy because most tears are superficial, while an episiotomy goes deep into muscles, requiring many levels of stitching. They are usually done by doctors who don't understand the mechanics of birth. Babies don't get "stuck" due to an insufficiently wide vagina, but rather they get stuck in the pelvis. Birthing upright corrects that, in most cases. I could go on, for hours here, but you get the point.
The money quote: "Anal samples from the swabbed group, oddly, contained the highest abundance of bacteria usually found in the mouth." So perhaps women should use their babies' faces as toilet paper for their first dump after delivering. Calling Jenny McCarthy, here's your new Crusade, toots, Asswiping Your Babies' Faces Against Autism.I should point out that Julius Caesar's health problems were not vaginal microbe related.
i was present when my daughter was delivered via c-section. oh my fucking god was it awful. good thing mrs. kev was there to hold my hand because i nearly swooned. there is a reason i opted for law school over med school. i'm a sympathy vomiter, too.
That is a new one on me, considering the uterus is in the middle, but it's an interesting wives' tale. I wonder if it's specific to the Levant?
Everyone who was civilized used to bathe in olive oil. The Germanic barbarians introduced soap and water bathing to the Mediterranean world.
Oh boy. 25% of preggers are Group B strep positive in the final weeks of pregnancy. And only 63% of term mothers are screened for it. 44% of preterm. In an unplanned c-section situation, if I am understanding correctly, the rapid GBS test misses ~10% of the cases. If you don't know your GBS status, and especially if it's positive, don't wipe your potentially fatal/brain damaging vag goo on babby ladies, ok?http://contemporaryobgyn.mo...
haha no. Nothing will ever ever make that happen.
It will obviate the need for vaccines! Yay!
Maybe clone gone bad.
I don't know, but I doubt it. They have some strange post-natal practices in South America that I read about in National Geographic years ago, but I don't remember the details now.
Considering how unclean the water was in most places, I don't blame them. The Ancient Persians thought Alexander the Great's troops were filthy barbarians because they would wade into the rivers to bathe, and would urinate and defecate near water sources, which polluted the waters for residents downstream and poisoned nearby wells.
There is, believe me. Midwives almost never perform episiotomies. Massage the outlet with sterile olive oil or sterile mineral oil to relax the pelvic floor muscles during labor, control the baby's emergence with slow, gentle pushes as the midwife gently massages the vagina open and carefully manipulates it around the baby's head, and slow release of the shoulders should do it. And tearing is usually better than an episiotomy because most tears are superficial, while an episiotomy goes deep into muscles, requiring many levels of stitching. They are usually done by doctors who don't understand the mechanics of birth. Babies don't get "stuck" due to an insufficiently wide vagina, but rather they get stuck in the pelvis. Birthing upright corrects that, in most cases. I could go on, for hours here, but you get the point.
If they paid $150,000 in 1985, I'm sure it's worth a gazillion dollars now. If only we all had a crystal ball!
Joke was on him then! Park Slope is for the rich folks now.
The money quote: "Anal samples from the swabbed group, oddly, contained the highest abundance of bacteria usually found in the mouth." So perhaps women should use their babies' faces as toilet paper for their first dump after delivering. Calling Jenny McCarthy, here's your new Crusade, toots, Asswiping Your Babies' Faces Against Autism.I should point out that Julius Caesar's health problems were not vaginal microbe related.
i was present when my daughter was delivered via c-section. oh my fucking god was it awful. good thing mrs. kev was there to hold my hand because i nearly swooned. there is a reason i opted for law school over med school. i'm a sympathy vomiter, too.
spoiler alert......he still dies....
It's just a belief spread by BIG Olive Oil to drive sales.
Ewwwwwwwwwwwww