#cesarean

[baelzebull]

Gemory

[aurawinterflower]

I did a report about physician bias affecting the quality of reproductive healthcare for my Social Justice class. Here's a diagram of a c-section with added upsetting stats about how the procedure is misused and over performed!

[feralfaelife]

I can't believe it's been one week already. This last week has both felt non existent and like an eternity. Little Man looks so different already and I just know I'm going to miss having him this tiny. His cheeks are starting to fill out more and his hair is growing so fast. I look at the pictures my husband got of him in the hospital right after he was born and they're like two different babies lol. He still has a stuffy nose which is mildly terrifying. The snorting is cute, but sometimes he can't get air through so he stops breathing for a couple seconds and I almost have a heart attack every time. The doctors say I can give him some saline drops and suction his nose, but also not to do it too often so it doesn't make it inflamed. He has this happen multiple times a day so I'm nervous to do anything because he sounds like he needs it way more often than he should actually get it. It always resolves itself and it's getting better daily so we're trying to just wait it out.

I feel like I'm healing well. My incision got checked out yesterday and they said it looks good, just bruised. I can definitely feel the bruising, but I wouldn't expect anything different after abdominal surgery. I can move much easier now and it doesn't feel like I'm being ripped open every time I cough, laugh, or sneeze. My incision definitely feels tingly and sometimes hurts similar to when your foot falls asleep, but again, surgeries cause nerve damage in the area so that makes sense. I haven't had much of an appetite yet, but omg everyone is so right about breastfeeding thirst 😂

[b-m-s-c]

[yuna13]

Suptober20

@winchester-reload

Day23: Favorite

Of course it's pie😊

[fromthedust]

cesarean

[spectrumdiversitycommunitycenter]

Did You Know?

The first successful cesarean section where both the mother and baby survived was performed by Dr. James Miranda Stuart Barry, a transgender surgeon born in 1789 in Ireland, in Cape Town, South Africa, where he served as a military doctor. The child was named James Barry Munnik in his honor, and his name even became a family name, eventually having his name borne by a future Prime Minister of South Africa. Barry kept rising through the ranks as a military doctor until he was forced into retirement due to old age. After he died of dysentery, the chairwoman who laid out the dead disputed his death certificate, upon which Barry was identified as male. When Barry’s lifelong physician, Dr McKinnon, refused to pay her for this discovery, she took it to the press, and it became instant news. When confronted by the General Registrar’s Office, Dr. McKinnon essentially said “it’s not my business to discuss.”

[wordsofawarriorgoddess]

34 hours

I spent much of that passing out from the pain

You entered the room head first

Roaring

Like the lion you are

Before you even left my body

Your presence was known in this world

And as I shook and trembled on the table

My body still numb and cut wide open

You were placed in my arms

And suddenly

I realized I had spent this lifetime waiting for you

I recognized your soul in an instant

And knew we belonged

~ Qwence