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BORN. To chameleon chanteuse MADONNA, 41, and director GUY RITCHIE, 31: her second child, Rocco; reportedly by caesarean section; in Los Angeles...
...nurse who is visiting this makeshift clinic in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, is also worried. This fetus is in an incorrect position. "You know that you might need an operation, don't you?" she asks her patient. Mallai bursts into tears. Nirmala patiently explains that a caesarean surgery will help the baby. Then she makes a little joke and asks after the rest of the family. Mallai begins to smile again. "The doctor amma [mother] is wonderful," she declares as soon as the nurse leaves...
Cindy Seikkula Peterson has reached that point in her life at which managing her family's health care takes more than an overstuffed file folder. With a newborn baby, her recovery from a caesarean section and her mom's high blood pressure on her mind, Seikkula Peterson, 41, monitors the family's prescriptions, immunizations, tests and doctor visits online using a service called WellMed. "Keeping track of everybody's health history in one spot, on the computer, makes it manageable," she says...
...safe as other emergency interventions. After poring over the records of 500,000 births, researchers conclude that vacuum deliveries--using a suction cup-like device that coaxes the baby out--are associated with bleeding into a baby's brain in just 0.1% of cases, about the same rate as caesarean and forceps deliveries...
...more excited than scared. The procedure wasn't painful. It was over in 10 minutes. It was worse for my husband, who watched close up on a TV monitor and said it was almost as bad as watching my caesarean. I went home, took a nap, woke up--and could see the clock across the room. At the doctor's the next day, I was seeing 20/20 with my left eye, 20/40 with my right...