Gum Chewing May Speed Healing Cesarean

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Chewing low-sugar gum, can help the healing mother's abdomen after a cesarean delivery. Egyptian researchers found that giving them chewing gum to help restore normal bowel function and shorten the time to stay in the hospital.

Like any other surgery, cesarean section also makes the intestines and digestive functions become sluggish for some time that cause gas and constipation.
Chewing gum will help trigger the nervous system response and the release of gastrointestinal hormones that stimulate the activity of the stomach to work, according to Dr. Abd El-Karim Maeboud and colleagues at the Ain Shams University of Cairo.

Research results published in the journal BJOG obstetrics, which involved 200 women who had cesarean section and anesthesia. At random, half of the respondents were given sugarless gum to chew for 15 minutes every two hours after surgery Caesar, while half of the respondents applied the standard treatment that includes getting out of bed and practice walking to encourage bowel moving again.

In general, they found that respondents who chew gum more quickly get back to normal bowel activity. On average they will experience shitting first 21 hours after cesarean section compared to 30 hours on respondents through standard care. They are also faster to leave the hospital only 41 hours after childbirth than 50 hours in women with standard treatment.

Furthermore Abd El Maeboud explained that this research is still premature and needs further research, especially regarding the effects due to differences in anesthesia / or local anesthesia during the Caesarean section. Local anesthesia including epidural blocks and spinal expected to be influenced by the nervous system activation with chewing gum.

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Daddy in Delivery Room

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Previously the role of father at the baby birth is just hope and wait anxiously in the waiting room filled with cigarette smoke. But time passed and the tradition begin shifts. When this (potential) role of the father prosecuted actively assist the process of birth.

Some fathers, particularly those awaiting the birth of first child, will generally have a sense of worry and a more uncertain and does not see his wife when tega pain during childbirth. Please, please also worried prospective father often descend. There are also fears that the father if he does not hold in the maternity room and even cause a shameful incident, such as fainting in the maternity room.

In fact what the role of fathers in the maternity room indeed? According to many of the father, not a lot of active role that fathers can do. The main function of the father in the maternity room to give the main sense of calm in the capital and the labor process usually help set the rhythm of contraction experienced by the mother. Therefore if your father is a type of simple nervous, following some of the things you can do to help you overcome the problem.

Acknowledge yourself.
Fears and concerns you is because your ignorance. Try to be involved in the pregnancy with his wife partake actively seek informai about everything about pregnancy and the problem. Also follow if the wife take the prospective mother-class education. Andapun can ask the doctor about the pregnancy situation wife. The more you know you are, the more comfortable you accompany his wife giving birth.

Discuss with the other.
His wife is also entitled to know what you feel and why, this will reveal what actually desired by the wife during the birth process. To remember that this discussion has a critical point which do not arise until that ketidakinginan assist you in the room as maternity passivity on your wife or your baby.

Clarify the role.
If you do not have a problem in the maternity room, you need to clarify the role of space in your clothes later. Maybe you want to immortalize precious moments birth of your child? Talk with your wife, you make sure that he will accompany the birth, just may not be exactly as you hope his wife.

Be quiet.
No matter seberapapun inquietude awaiting the birth of you, your willingness to support his wife in a small tote soon will overcome everything. Therefore Be calm and stay focused.

Ask for assistance.
If you worry too alone in the room or the clothes you will only be felt with the birth of the future, please ask your brother's wife or friend to accompany you in the maternity room.

Exchange experiences with friends.
Take time to exchange experiences as well as draw on the knowledge that your friend never accompanies his wife giving birth. Perhaps they can give advice on your concerns and how to overcome the chaos when you see your wife giving birth. Perhaps they will recount their experiences of emotional, exhausting, incredible, boring, frightening that appear simultaneously. And that they usually will not recommend to spend the most precious moment of it.

Of course supportif attitude and support you, the wife akan akan more calm during the process of birth in the maternity room. But when the last time you really do not feel strong does not impose itself, still waiting on the outside will be better. Remember that your involvement in the process of birth akan add emotional ties in your family, and that it is very useful in the future.

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Stay Healthy After Delivery

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Post-birth, the mother usually busy activity by the baby. Some mothers also worried about the body condition (who gain weight) during pregnancy. Here ... there are a few tips from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologist which can be practiced before you make a small exercise program after delivery.

• Start the sports low impact, especially when you didn’t have enough exercise during pregnancy.
• Sports always begins with the warming-up and end with cooling-down.
• Select adequate support bra for sport.
• Select walk as the beginning of the program. You also can bring your baby with you.
• Slowly increase your sports program from jast walk to the more.
• Consider joining a special sports classes for mothers after the birth (usually held in a hospital).
• Or join a fitness center nearby, which provides programs for young mothers.

However, post-birth mother still not recommended for sport too much, which usually the mother who wanted her body back to its original shape. There are some marks on the body of the mother suggests that too much exercise according to the American Council on Excercise.

• The difficulty in achieving normal level as before.
• Feeling does not focus
• Body recovery last longer than before pregnancy
• Faster heart rate (in the morning) but normal blood pressure
• Lack of appetite
• Headache and muscular pain
• stomach problems
• More frequent ill, bone or muscle injury
• Sleeping problems.

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