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Well, apparently without proper food, female athletes may have hormonal imbalance. Eating right is the key to avoid that.. See the following link for more information..

“Research suggests that failure to increase dietary energy intake in compensation for the expenditure of energy during exercise can disrupt the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian (HPO) axis. Exercise training appears to have no suppressive effect on the HPO axis beyond the impact of its strain on energy availability.

“See page 52 of the following e-book..<a href=”http://www.ncaa.org/library/sports_sciences/sports_med_handbook/2005-06/2005-06_sports_medicine_handbook.pdf”>http://www.ncaa.org/library/sports_sciences/sports_med_handbook/2005-06/2005-06_sports_medicine_handbook.pdf</a>’

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Think twice before you try the exotic rides at the theme parks. Your body may not be designed for that kind of stress. During the million years of evolution, none of our forefathers experienced anything like that without getting killed.

I heard several miss-carriages because mom tried those rides – even most protected human womb is not safe on those rides – how do you expect your spinal chord will do there. My guess is – the sharp rise in back pain in our population is due to these “fun rides”.

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A recently approved anti-smoking medication could also serve to repress an alcoholic’’s desire for drink, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California-San Francisco.

Varenicline, manufactured by Pfizer and approved as a smoking cessation aid in the United States and Europe in 2006, has been shown to reduce nicotine consumption by affecting the brain’’s reward system for addictive substances. The research team, noting that cigarettes and alcohol are often abused together, wanted to see if the drug had the same affect on drinking. The researchers tested the impact of varenicline — know by its trade names Chantix in the United States and Champix in Europe — on laboratory rats which had consumed high amounts of ethanol over a long period.

Rats were trained to drink ethanol in consistent amounts over five months before they were given varenicline. After the drug was administered steadily, the rats consistently showed less interest in the ethanol. The results suggested the drug helped in modulating the rats” desire to consume the ethanol or to enjoy its effects, the study said. The scientists also found that, when the rats were later cut off from varenicline, they did not resume the intake of ethanol at previous levels. “Chronic treatment with varenicline suppressed the ethanol consumption without any subsequent rebound increase in drinking,” it said.

This finding “suggests that varenicline may serve as a therapeutic treatment to reduce alcohol consumption in alcoholic subjects.” ‘Antismoking Drug Could Help Treat Alcoholism’, 0, ”, ‘publish’, ‘open’, ‘closed’, ”,

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Insurance, in law and economics, is a form of risk management primarily used to hedge against the risk of a contingent loss. Insurance is defined as the equitable transfer of the risk of a potential loss, from one entity to another, in exchange for a premium. Insurer, in economics, is the company that sells the insurance.

Insurance rate is a factor used to determine the amount, called the premium, to be charged for a certain amount of insurance coverage. Risk management, the practice of appraising and controlling risk, has evolved as a discrete field of study and practice.The term health insurance refers to a wide variety of insurance policies.

These range from policies that cover the costs of doctors and hospitals to those that meet a specific need, such as paying for long-term care. Even disability insurance—which replaces lost income if you can’t work because of illness or accident—is considered health insurance, even though it’s not specifically for medical expenses.1910s: “Sickness” insurance, similar to today’’s disability insurance, gains popularity to replace wages lost because of illness. 1910: Abraham Flexner’’s Carnegie Foundation report criticizes standards of medical care, training of physicians and other practices. 1913: American College of Surgeons is established, sets standards for members and hospital accreditation, leading to higher fees for services. 1920: Compulsory health insurance proposal by American Association for Labor Legislation fails. 1920s: Rise of effective medical treatments and medical licensing standards leads to higher costs; shift to urban living brings more hospital demand. 1927: Committee on the Costs of Medical Care formed, reports that hospital expenses can burden families. 1929: Dallas teachers form Blue Cross to provide 21 days of hospitalization for a fixed $6 payment; similar prepaid hospital plans urged by the American Hospital Association. 1934: California Physicians Service operates first prepayment plan for physician services, a precursor to Blue Shield, open to employees earning less than $3,000 a year at a cost of $1.70 per month. 1935:

Congress defeats proposed national health plan. 1940s: Commercial insurers enter health market after the Blues” success in group insurance. World War II: Employers, subject to wage controls, compete for workers by offering insurance. 1943: IRS administrative ruling says payments to health insurers are not taxable as employee income. 1945: War Labor Board rules that employers can”t modify or cancel group insurance plans during the contract period. 1949: National Labor Relation Board rules that insurance benefits are “wages” subject to collective bargaining; Congress defeats national health insurance proposal. 1951: 82 million people covered by commercial plans or Blue Cross and Blue Shield. 1954: IRS exempts health plan payments from taxable income. 1958: 75 percent of Americans have private health insurance coverage.

1965: Congress enacts Medicare for the elderly and Medicaid for low-income people. 1985: To protect employees who lose group coverage, Congress enacts COBRA, named for the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act. 1994: Clinton national health plan defeated. 1996: Congress enacts Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act to let employees keep insurance when they change jobs, among other provisions.

1997: Congress enacts Children’’s Health Insurance Program to cover children from low-income families. Late 1990s: Discussions on consumer-directed health care begin. 2003: President Bush signs law that expands health savings accounts. 2005: Congress adds drug benefits through Medicare Part D. 2006: Massachusetts passes mandatory health insurance law. 2007: Bush proposes changes in tax laws to “level the field” for nongroup insurance. (hypothetical scenario)2010: Medicare trust fund due to start losing money.

2018: Medicare trust fund due to become insolvent.

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State officials looking at the state’’s new mandatory health insurance program said that they are not expecting hundreds of thousands of uninsured residents to come up for new health insurance plans. According to the Health Insurance Connector Authority Chairwoman Leslie A. Kirwan, July 1 start for the insurance mandate “is really a call to action” for the uninsured to begin taking steps to get coverage.

Initial tax penalties, in the form of a loss of a personal deduction on state taxes, will only be applied to those without coverage starting in January, and will be assessed only on those unable to verify insurance coverage for the year when they file their 2008 state tax forms in early 2009. “Starting July 1 the individual mandate takes effect in which all adults are required to have health insurance, if affordable,” Ms. Kirwan said. “It marks the start of a five-month grace period before any penalties apply.” “We are looking to insure people, not penalize them,” she said.

Those without insurance can buy it directly from private insurers, but the state has also set up a variety of plans, including low-premium, high-deductible plans available through the Connector, and arrangements for payments through pre-tax payroll deductions. Subsidized plans are also available for those with income below 300 percent of the poverty level.

Officials acknowledged the criteria, which weigh the cost of available health plans for an individual, income levels, family structure, employer offered insurance options, county residence and other factors, make a complex formula. To help people test their eligibility for an exemption, officials said, they intend to have an interactive calculator on the agency Web site (MAhealthconnector.org) by Sunday. People can also make inquiries about insurance options and exemption eligibility by calling the Connector at 877-MA-ENROLL.

Setting the affordability standards, Ms. Kirwan said, was one more step toward implementing health care reforms.Since January, 130,000 people eligible for MassHealth and the Commonwealth Care subsidized insurance plans have signed up for coverage, according to Jonathan Kingsdale, executive director of the authority.

“We are receiving close to 50,000 inquiries a week through the Web site and the call center. We had 8,800 yesterday,” Ms. Kirwan said. “People are obviously educating themselves about the requirement and are shopping.

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If you have been thinking about getting term life insurance, now’’s a great time to start shopping because life insurance rates are declining rapidly. According to the Insurance Information Institute’’s forecast the cost of term life insurance policies will drop by an estimated six percent in 2008. Term life insurance rates are dropping largely as a result of increased competition among insurance companies.

“A lot of people who don”t have life insurance policies say they”ve avoided getting one because they think it’’s too expensive, but with rates on the decline, now is a great time to start looking into it,” says Byron Udell, founder and CEO of AccuQuote, a Web-based company that combines instant online quotes with the personal service of unbiased life insurance professionals.According to AccuQuote, the annual premium for a 40-year-old male in good health buying a $500,000, 20-year term level term life insurance policy would be $355. Rates for women would be lower.

If you have dependent children, a spouse or anyone else who would suffer financially if you die, then you need life insurance. The question is how much insurance do you need? Udell says a good rule of thumb to follow is to take out a policy that would provide your family with at least five to ten times your annual salary; though depending on their level of expenses, some families may need more and some may need less. AccuQuote’’s Web site has a “Needs Calculator” that can be used to determine the proper amount.

If you currently own a life insurance policy, Udell suggests reviewing your policy every 2 to 3 years. He says, “Life insurance needs change as we get older. If you have another child, buy a new house or even get a promotion, you should reconsider the amount of coverage you currently have and ask yourself, ”Will this be enough for my family to maintain their current lifestyle?”” In addition, rates for term life insurance have dropped 60 percent in the last 10 years so you may be able to save a boat load of money by “refinancing” your current policy.

AccuQuote has many handy insurance tools, including a glossary that explains industry terminology, a collection of articles that cover the basics about life insurance, and a blog which will help answer many questions you have about life insurance.

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In a double blow for health, Indiana legislators in the US have decided on raising tax on cigarettes and channelizing the additional earnings towards healthcare. As per a deal agreed upon on Sunday, the state’’s cigarette tax would be hiked by 44 cents per pack and the expected additional flow to the treasury, of the order of 200 million dollars a year would help fund several health programs.

Most of the tax increase would be directed toward a plan to provide health care coverage for about 132,000 adults. The plan would be available to people without employer-provided health insurance and who earn less than double the federal poverty level. Beneficiaries would get free preventive care each year, as well as insurance coverage and personal health accounts used for doctor visits and prescriptions.

Cigarette tax money also would be spent on vaccinations for children and smoking prevention and cessation programs. The proposal also includes other health care initiatives, including a program that would permit certain employers to participate in plans that allow employees to pay for health care using pre-tax money.

The bill also expands eligibility for Medicaid for pregnant women and for the Children’’s Health Insurance Program. State health commissioner said increasing the cigarette tax by 44 cents per pack would spur about 23,000 adults to quit smoking. She said the health care plan would reduce the number of people who wait too long to seek medical help because they do not have insurance.

Gov. Mitch Daniels has pushed for the increased cigarette tax and health care plan. Secretary Mitch Roob of the Family and Social Services Administration also has lobbied for the proposal. But it had teetered on the edge of collapse in the final days of the session, as lawmakers disagreed on the amount of the cigarette tax and even suggested that the money should go for property tax relief instead of health programs.

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Adults aged 18 to 24 mostly do lack health care coverage. According to the state Department of Health of Minneapolis, 98,200 in that age group don’t have health insurance.

That’’s 19 percent of the college-aged group, compared to 7.4 percent overall.Those numbers bulge in the summer, the result of a state law that says a child can be covered by parents” insurance only until age 18, or until age 25 if they are a full-time student.That means thousands of college graduates fall off their parents” policies after they earn a diploma.

The state Legislature recently approved a change in the law that, effective Jan. 1, will allow young people who are dependents to remain on their parents” private health insurance until they turn 25.Getting graduates to understand the risk they”re taking without insurance is a challenge.Some colleges, including the University of Minnesota and, starting this fall, the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, require students to purchase a school health policy if they don”t have private insurance.Several Minnesota insurers are working on health coverage packages aimed especially at young people.

Since Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota unveiled its Simply Blue coverage for young adults in January, 1,500 policies have been sold, most of them to people ages 19 to 25.Simply Blue allows limited emergency room and doctor visits, but doesn”t cover expensive conditions such as pregnancy. Coverage can be purchased online, an advantage with young people.

Depending on the deductible and the applicant’’s health status, premiums for those under 30 range from $76 to $105 a month.Most of the inquiries about Simply Blue come from parents.Parents realize that at the end of the day, they”ll be the ones who will be paying if their child has an accident.On Memorial Day weekend, new college graduate Monica Heth was riding an all-terrain vehicle in northern Wisconsin when she crashed into a tree and flipped over.

The 22-year-old was wearing a helmet, but she broke her hand. As X-rays were taken at the hospital, Heth thought: I”m going to have to pay for this myself. Heth, who was undergraduate student body president at the University last year, graduated in May with a bachelor’’s degree in political science and global studies.

She begins law school at the University of Chicago this fall but stayed in Minneapolis this summer to work as campaign manager for a political campaign.Heth was dropped from her parents” insurance in April when she turned 22. She used the University’’s insurance for the rest of the school year and then, at her parents” urging, bought catastrophic coverage to bridge the summer until she gets student coverage again in Chicago.

While the damage to her hand doesn”t appear severe, Heth can”t perform her job, which involves typing. Doctors told her that her bones might be broken in more than one place, and they wanted her to come back for more X-rays. State Insurers are trying their best to change this and make these adults more insured and make their future secure.

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‘I am a big fan of free market economy..but it does not work for military, or health care , or basic education.How do you like a privatized American arm force? Just because you did not pay them, during an attack from Iran, they will not protect you. Not very good- right?Now look at our health care system.

You got an attack by Cancer [like bomb attack from an enemy], and you are told, sorry, no support for you because you do not have money..Here are some case studies reprinted from a newspaper..

Michael Gray, 21 Fredericksburg, VirginiaMichael Gray has no real complaints about the treatment he received in the casualty ward of his local private hospital after he broke his neck playing American football two months ago. It is what came after that hurt.He was playing four-a-side football with friends one Sunday in April. Jumping for a long ball, Gray collided with a member of the opposing team and as they fell, he landed awkwardly on his neck.

For 20 minutes or so, his body felt completely numb and he was terrified he might be permanently paralysed. To his huge relief, he gradually regained movement in his limbs.That evening, still in great pain, he was seen by a neurosurgeon in the local Mary Washington hospital, who said that two of his neck vertebrae had been broken. He underwent a four-hour operation and was kept as an in-patient for the next five days.

Because his accident had been life- threatening, the hospital was duty bound to treat Gray, even though he was uninsured. The glass-cutting company for which he worked provided group health cover, but he was new to the firm and had only just become eligible for it; he had an appointment to apply for it in his diary for the Monday – the day after his game of football.The Grays were braced for bad news when the bill for treatment arrived.

But this was beyond bad. Surgeon’’s fees: $27,000 (£13,700); hospital care: $33,000 (£16,700); total bill, including scans and other sundries: $65,000-$70,000 (up to £35,000). Gray’’s earnings from the glass company: $10 (£5) an hour.Gray, who is still wearing a neck brace from the accident, has no idea how he is going to find the money. “It’’s running through my mind every day,” he says. “How am I going to get that bill paid?

How am I going to get my credit back? How am I going to get my life back?”Dorothy Crill, 58 Toledo, OhioWhen Dorothy Crill trained as a nurse, she was taught that the first thing to do was to establish the insurance status of any patient she might have to care for.

And, she asked, what if he or she did not have full cover? Well then, came the reply, give them less of your time and attention.So when she herself was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2000, she was already well-versed in the potential perils of the American health system.

Over the past seven years, she has become intimately acquainted with those pitfalls, this time as a patient. The first trap that she fell into was when she became too ill to work and as a result lost the health insurance that was provided by her company.She was forced to rely on Medicare, a government health scheme, which at least gave her basic treatment, but from her experience as a nurse she knew not to hope for very much.

“There’’s a vast difference: the care you get in hospitals serving Medicare patients is not as good. They don”t have enough staff, and as a patient I felt that those staff they did have really weren”t bothered with me.”Then came the catch-22. After a few years, she felt strong enough to go back to work, but only on a part-time basis.

Working a day or two each week was not sufficient to regain her workplace health insurance, but it was, ironically, enough to push her over the income limit for Medicare, which she then lost.She was put in the bizarre situation of having to look for nursing jobs that paid so badly that they would not raise her earnings above $600 a month. She could not find any.

So she had to decide between work and health insurance. She chose work.”There’’s one thing I knew as a carer, and that is if you are ill, you have to keep positive and productive. It’’s as important as drinking water,” she says. “I know I”m likely to die sooner rather than later, and to give up my job and just sit there would only bring it on faster.”But there have been consequences. She has been unable to pay tens of thousands of dollars in medical fees.

She has fallen behind in her mortgage payments, to the extent that she has now foreclosed on her house. It could be auctioned any day, after which she will be homeless.There have been consequences, too, for her husband, whom she married three years ago. To help her, he has put aside his career as a writer and become a forklift truck driver – for no other reason than to secure health insurance to which she can then have access.

Crill’’s cancer has now spread to her bones. She is feeling OK, but she faces a new round of chemotherapy in the autumn. The anger she feels towards the health system, the system in which she has nursed and been nursed, does not help.”Healthcare in this country is a business: you get it if you have the money,” she says, sitting in her Ohio home. “I”ve seen both sides, and it’’s a disaster.”Lucy Evans, 27 Louisville, KentuckyLucy Evans has about six weeks to find a job with a good healthcare plan. Otherwise, as she puts it, “I”m screwed”.

When the deadline runs out, her medical insurance, which was attached to a law degree she has just finished, will expire with it. If she fails to replace it with a new work-related insurance package, even for a single day, all the rights she had built up, all her protection against discrimination at the hands of the insurance companies, will vanish.Under Kentucky law, there is nothing stopping the insurance firms discriminating against Evans on the grounds of her previous medical history.

In 1999, she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer which returned last year. In 2004, she was also found to have a meningioma – a form of spinal tumour.She has applied for several health insurance packages and been flatly rejected by firms that tell her bluntly they will not pay for treatment for her existing conditions.

If she can find a new job-related health scheme before her old one ends, her entitlement to ongoing care is preserved. But if she can”t …She could theoretically fall back on “Kentucky Access” – a safety net provided by the state for the uninsured. But because she is a woman of childbearing age – “that’’s another joke”, she says, “I can”t feed myself let alone a baby” – the premiums are punishing: $600 a month, which she cannot afford.”I feel like I have based my entire life over the past eight years around health insurance – it’’s dominated the jobs I could apply for, the ambitions I had.

I”m exhausted by having to do the sums all the time.”In the light of her past illnesses, her doctors are keen that she takes regular tests to ensure that no cancer is returning. But she has already turned down recommended probes on a nodule on one of her lungs and on her thyroid on grounds of cost alone.Does she have any faith in politicians to change the system? “Absolutely not. I”m a Democrat, always have been. But the problem has gotten too large. If it was up to me, the whole system would be overhauled. Left to the politicians, nothing will happen.”Volodymyr Khomik, 55 New York CityVolodymyr Khomik cheered when he read in his local paper that Michael Moore had taken a group of workers who had fallen sick after spending months in the toxic atmosphere of Ground Zero to Cuba to see if they would receive better treatment there than in New York. If only he were one of them.

On September 12 2001, the day after the twin towers fell, this Ukrainian building worker was recruited to join hundreds of fire fighters and police in the desperate search. For days they looked for survivors within the mountainous pile of powdered concrete and twisted metal, and when all hope faded they carried on clearing away the rubble.It was hard work, lasting up to 14 hours a day, seven days a week.

He was in confined spaces, breathing in the dusty air or wading knee-deep in oil-polluted water.He was provided with a basic mask, but its filters quickly clogged up. He didn”t think of his own safety, such was the enormity of the attacks, but after a few months he began to notice problems. He had nosebleeds and uncontrollable bouts of coughing.

In September 2002 his cough had become so wrenching that he had to leave Ground Zero.He went for a medical check-up, using the health insurance provided through his union. The doctor did a CAT scan on his lungs, and told him that he should give up smoking. Khomik replied: “I have never smoked in my life.”He was then told that unless he chalked up 400 hours” work over six months, he would lose his group health insurance. He was not well enough to work at all, so he applied for work-related sickness compensation. But that just compounded matters.

Unless he could prove that his ailments were caused by Ground Zero, he was deemed ineligible. And as he was not eligible, he remained uninsured and devoid of medical care. The only attention given to him was by doctors conducting a study of Ground Zero workers. They told him they would monitor his health, but could not treat him because they were only carrying out a study.Finally, compensation came through last August – three years after he put in for it – and he can now have treatment.

But in the meantime his health has deteriorated. He has seven nodules on his lungs – without a biopsy, he does not know if they are malignant or benign – and tests have shown a sharp decline in lung capacity. He has trouble climbing stairs, cannot walk further than a few blocks without resting, has pain in both lungs and also suffers from other heart and liver complaints.Khomik came to America from Ukraine in 1998 and has a green card permit to live in the US, a country he regards as his own. He says he has been shocked by the response to what he thought had been a patriotic act on his part.”I don”t understand how doctors can turn me away after I did all I could to help at the World Trade Centre,” he says, speaking through a translator.

His anger rising, he switches into stuttering English: “It is big nonsense for me. Doctor ask, ”Go away! Out, out!” Why? Please tell me why.”Devante Johnson, died aged 14 Houston, TexasDevante Johnson’’s mother, Tamika Scott, described him as a smart, quiet and ambitious boy who always put other people’’s feelings before his own. An honour student, he never missed a day’’s school before he fell ill. “Was I proud of him?

Yes, I was. And I still am,” she says.He was first diagnosed with kidney cancer in September 2003 and treated within a specialist oncology ward at the Texas Children’’s Hospital. Under chemo- and radiation therapy his mother says he was doing fine, attending school, playing with friends, leading a “regular, normal childhood”.

He was treated through Medicaid, the US state medical insurance scheme for low-income families. Scott was always careful to make sure that the policy was up to date – it had to be renewed every six months and she knew that Texas was the country’’s worst offender in terms of the percentage of its children who were uninsured.She reapplied for Medicaid six months before it was due to run out, but the bureaucrats kept losing her paperwork and in April last year she was told that, despite her efforts, the policy had lapsed.

That same week Devante was taken off his therapy, transferred to a general ward and put on a new experimental drug. The results, his mother said, were tragic to watch.”Children shouldn”t have to suffer like he did. He wouldn”t eat and lost 20lb in two weeks.

He begged me to stop the medication because he said it would kill him.”Last August, four months after the Medicaid had run out and fully 10 months after Mrs Scott had reapplied for it, the money came through and she was allowed to move Devante to a new hospital, MD Anderson. Within the day, he was put back on his old chemotherapy treatment.

Within two weeks, he was back on his feet and at school once more.But by then it was too late. His tumour had grown so large during the months he was without proper care that it was encroaching on a lung. He soon fell ill again, and died on March 1.Scott is convinced that the break in his treatment due to lack of funding was fatal. “I believe the hospital stopped his treatment because they knew they weren”t going to be paid, and that caused him terrible suffering.”A devout Christian, she believes that God took her son’’s life for a higher purpose.

As a result of the publicity surrounding Devante’’s death, the Texas state government has now reduced the frequency with which families have to reapply for Medicaid from six months to a year, making it easier to sustain treatment.”He was my little angel,” Scott says. “God sent him here to do a job, and he did it. Now he’’s back home with his ultimate Father”.

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My wife gave birth to our child in a “modern” Hospital. We learned a lot, and we want to share our experience so that you can make informed decision about epidural and its impact on brestfeeding, normal delivery, and long term intellectual development of your baby. I”m not going through other good practices, because you can find them in any good book. I will mention more of what you will not find in any book, and consult your doctor before using any advice. This is to help you to ask the right Select a doctor who believes in Lamaz’’s class. Call your local Lamaz’’s representative to find out the name of doctor’’s who believe in natural birth as opposed to induced labor, epidural or cessation. If your doctor is a Ob., the chances are high that he will force you (I mean in a subtle way) to a cessation or less lucrative small operations. 80% of your problem for a natural birth is over, if you have a good doctor Before you get pregnant, ask your doctor for Vitamins. Our doctor. did not tell us about vitamins neither before nor after we got pregnant.

I guess it is not so obvious, and not every doctor&nbsp; will tell you that. Regular walk. Drink as much water as you can.If your doctor does not believe in Lamaz’’s class, he will send you to ”Lamaz’’s-like class, called child birth classes, which are very deceptive, and DON”T PREPARE you for a natural child birth.

In our class, they just showed a video on how good the epidural. The video is made by the company who makes epidural. We paid $80 for the class, at the suggestion of our doctor. If your doctor does not recommend a Lamaze’’s class, you”ve a BAD doctor One or two weeks before your due date, your doctor may ask you when do you like to deliver your baby. This is a bad signal. This means he wants to deliver the baby at his convenience, not during the weekend.

They generally want to do it on the Wednesday or Thursday near your due date If you say ”yes”, you will have an induced labor using some hormones, on the days you have picked up. Induced labor is very painful, and so you have to take epidural (hospital gets about $1000/hour, and for about 15-20 hours). Epidural means you will have hardly any energy left (at the time you will have 10cm. dialation) to push, so your doctor has no choice but to do a cessation (more money for Hospital) or some other brutal procedure (more money for the hospital) to get the baby out from the birth canal.

Apart from that, babies born using this kind of induction have low nappetite, because they are just not ready. So, never ever go for an induced labor unless, it is necessary for medical reason.A great link for more information.. <a href=”http://www.healing-arts.org/mehl-madrona/mmepidural.htm”>Risks of Epidural

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