Midwife in Mozambique

PBS aired a compelling story about midwives learning to do cesarean surgery to fill the shortage of doctors in rural Mozambique. The young midwife featured is shown conducting a couple of repeat cesareans. One for a placental abruption for which uncontrolled bleeding leads to a hysterectomy. Another mother is given a repeat cesarean and she […]

Another risk of cesarean surgery

A 26-yr old woman was 8-weeks pregnant and experiencing some light bleeding. Her previous birth was by cesarean section. When an ultrasound was done to see the cause of her bleeding the technician could find no baby in her womb. Instead, the baby was developing in the separating edges of her cesarean scar! I wonder […]