What If I Have a C-Section? by Rita Rubin
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Book Description

An award-winning health writer answers all the questions a pregnant mom may have about this increasingly performed procedure-now used in nearly one in every four births

Thirty years ago, 1 in 20 babies was born by a C-Section. Today that number has swelled to almost 1 in 4. Yet despite the steep rise in C-Sections, there are very few books available to help moms-to-be sort out their options, allay their fears, and navigate their way through this serious and emotionally complex procedure.

With this book, Rita Rubin, a USA Today medical reporter, tells women:

   • The main reason Cesareans are performed
   • Exactly what the procedure entails
   • How to communicate with their doctors to insure the birth experience they want
   • Strategies that will help them recover from the surgery quickly and relatively painlessly
   • How to decide whether to have an elective C-Section and how to cope should surgery be medically necessary
   • How to sort out the controversy about VBAC (Vaginal Birth After C-Section)

Whether the reader is considering choosing an elective C-Section, worrying about what she will face should she need one, or recovering in the days after her delivery, she'll find the facts in this unbiased, authoritative, reassuring guide-along with steps she can take to make the birth of her child the healthiest, most joyous occasion possible.

About the Author

Rita Rubin

Rita Rubin is a prize-winning health journalist and the woman's health reporter at USA Today. Formerly a medical reporter for U.S. News & World Report, Rubin has written for Health, Ladies' Home Journal, The Journal of General Internal Medicine, and Reader's Digest, among many other medical and lay publications..

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