More women are choosing At-home births in Southern Colorado
Studies show more and more women are exploring at-home births, and experts say the pandemic is partly to blame.
and last updated 2021-05-10 08:31:39-04
COLORADO SPRINGS â Studies show more and more women are exploring at-home births, and experts say the pandemic is partly to blame.
For months, expecting moms feared not only catching the Coronavirus, but there was also a concern over who could be in the delivery room. As a result, a lot more women decided o look into having an at-home birth, or delivering at a birthing center.
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Officials in Brazil urged women to wait to get pregnant.
A new COVID-19 variant in the country seems to be causing more complications in pregnant people.
In the U.S., officials say that the choice to become pregnant is a personal decision.
The government in Brazil is asking women to consider delaying pregnancy until the country is out of the grips of a spike in COVID cases. If possible, postpone the pregnancy a bit to a better time so that [you] can have a more peaceful pregnancy, Secretary of Primary Health Care of the Brazilian health ministry Raphael Camara said in April, according to CNN.
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Generations of women have quietly endured the messy business of giving birth. Even after reading stacks of pregnancy books, faithfully following their health care provider’s advice and successfully delivering a healthy baby, women often enter motherhood with what suddenly feels like a broken body.
They involuntarily pee when they sneeze or cough. It hurts to sit. They may feel consumed by anxiety or depression. Often, they feel too ashamed to ask for help, especially when they are laser-focused on trying to care for their brand-new baby. Many find that when they do speak up, their concerns are waved away as part of the healing process one of the wide array of “normal” changes that happen to the body after giving birth.
It s not known, but researchers are starting to study the issue.
Vaccines are designed to activate your immune system, and some experts have wondered if that could temporarily disrupt menstrual cycles.
So far, reports of irregular bleeding have been anecdotal. And it’s hard to draw any links to the vaccines since changes could be the result of other factors including stress, diet and exercise habits. There s also a lack of data tracking changes to menstrual cycles after vaccines in general.
If scientists do eventually find a link between the vaccine and short-term changes in bleeding, experts say that would be no reason to avoid getting vaccinated.
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