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Some women have it all - but maybe they shouldn't. Controversial radio therapist and self-help guru Dr. Laura Schlessinger argues that mothers' careers belong on the back burner while they raise their children themselves. A self-described "recovering feminist," Schlessinger says watching a documentary on childbirth at age 35 summoned the maternal instincts she believes are present in even the most "liberated" of women. She spoke with TIME about her tough-love advice, her talking action figure and her 12th book, In Praise of Stay-at-Home Moms. (Read "What Mother Nature Teaches Us About Motherhood...
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...published a novel of your own, “The Book Against God”. What was it like waiting for the reviews to come out, being known as such an exacting critic yourself?JW: Actually, torture. One would think that the experience would get better. That rather, like childbirth, you’d learn how to deal with the pain.10. FM: In your (CM) forthcoming novel, there’s a section about an old man moving to a retirement home. You’ve suggested that this might feel like living in a college dorm again. Does Harvard?...
...VBAC isn't risk-free either. With each repeat cesarean, a mother's risk of heavy bleeding, infection and infertility, among other complications, goes up. Perhaps most alarming, repeat C-sections increase a woman's chances of developing life-threatening placental abnormalities that can cause hemorrhaging during childbirth. The rate of placenta accreta--in which the placenta attaches abnormally to the uterine wall--has increased thirtyfold in the past 30 years. "The problem is only beginning to mushroom," says ACOG's Zelop...
...procedure, is concerned that women are getting "skewed" information about the risks of a VBAC "that leads them down the path that the doctor or hospital wants them to follow, as opposed to medical information that helps them make the best decision." According to a nationwide survey by Childbirth Connection, a 91-year-old maternal-care advocacy group based in New York City, 57% of C-section veterans who gave birth in 2005 were interested in a VBAC but were denied the option of having...