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The standard method for closing the uterus after cesarean delivery, used for over 50 years, may be causing a host of long-term health issues for millions of women.

According to Dr. Emmanuel Bujold and Dr. Roberto Romero, leaders in obstetrics and gynecology, current closure practices—where sutures join the uterine lining with surrounding muscle—fail to restore the uterus’s natural structure, leading to serious complications.

Their exhaustive review reveals the risks: abnormal placenta attachment affects up to 6% of women, uterine rupture up to 3%, and premature births up to 28%. Many suffer pelvic pain (up to 35%), excessive bleeding (up to 33%), and endometriosis or adenomyosis (up to 43%). Such complications are linked directly to the scarring produced by the conventional closure method.

Bujold and Romero propose a nuanced technique: suturing tissues only of the same type, carefully reconstructing the muscle layer while leaving the uterine lining untouched for natural regeneration. Although this new method takes 5–8 minutes—twice as long as the traditional approach—the additional blood loss is minimal and outweighed by better outcomes for future reproductive health.

With cesarean rates rising globally, especially in countries like Canada where 27% of births are by C-section, prioritizing meticulous uterine repair is a critical public health concern. This shift in surgical thinking may help millions experience safer subsequent pregnancies and better long-term well-being.

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📄 RESEARCH PAPER

📌 Emmanuel Bujold et al, "Uterine closure after cesarean delivery: surgical principles, biological rationale, and clinical implications", American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology (2025)

During pregnancy, something quietly extraordinary happens inside a mother’s body.
Tiny fetal cells—belonging to the baby—begin to cross into the mother’s bloodstream. They don’t stop there.
They travel through her body, nestling into her tissues, her bones, even her brain.

This process is called fetal-maternal microchimerism, and it’s nothing short of miraculous.

For 9 months, these cells move back and forth—mother to baby, baby to mother. And after birth? They stay.

Decades later, those cells can still be found in a mother’s body, forming a kind of invisible bond—etched in her very biology.

Scientists have found fetal cells embedded in a mother’s heart, where they rush to help heal after injury. Some settle in her brain. Others help restore tissue or strengthen her immune system.
Even in pregnancies that don’t reach full term, the baby leaves a part of themselves behind. A cellular imprint. A silent love note, woven into the mother’s DNA.

Maybe that’s why so many mothers feel their children, even when they’re far away.

Maybe that’s why a mom’s intuition so often rings true.

Your child was never just in your arms—they’re part of your heart, your skin, your memory. And long after the world stops seeing you as “expecting,” your body still carries the quiet echo of motherhood.

Science has just begun to explain it. But every mother has always known it.

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In 1929 Ge**er began an advertising campaign to convince dieticians and pediatricians that canned baby food was just as nutritious as homemade food, and even better because it was scientifically prepared.
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As part of the campaign, doctors received free Ge**er products for patients. Ge**er also funded research touting the health benefits of their food. That research—vaguely worded and devoid of peer review—was published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, positioning it as scientific fact.
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Alongside these efforts, Ge**er stated that women who prepared their own baby food were neglecting their husbands—and babies. One 1933 ad read, “For Baby’s Sake, Stay Out of the Kitchen!”
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Alongside these efforts, Ge**er advocated for starting solids at 3 months old. And by the 1950’s—after 20 years of advertising—the average age of introducing solids fell to just 6 weeks old.💔
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Since then the medical community realized that too-early introduction of solids displaced valuable nutrition from breast milk/formula. The consensus among medical institutions today (AAP, U.S. National Institutes for Health, and World Health Organization) is that it’s best to introduce solids at 6 months old. It is at this time that most babies are developmentally ready to eat and need more iron. Conveniently, 6 months is also when babies are capable of feeding themselves.
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Baby food was invented. Mom guilt was marketed.
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There is no perfect order of introducing solids. No no need for “stages” of thickness. These were all constructs in the name of profit.
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Convenience has its place. I love a good yogurt pouch and rely on Cheerios when traveling. But the idea that real food has to be hard isn’t good for anyone. Babies don’t need banana pudding or pricey pouches—a banana is fine!
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There is a reason feeding feels complicated. Corporations spent the last century telling your grandmothers and great-grandmothers that they would be bad moms and wives if they didn’t buy pre-prepared baby food. So the next time you feel a twinge of guilt for feeding your baby YOUR way, remember that it’s not you. It’s history.

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Day 2 - Another quick reference guide, this time for the "Oasis Elite Pool". Our most popular Oasis Pool.
This one has room for 2 and is still suitable for the waterwise.
With our flat rate postage you can buy this popular birth pool here.
https://simplybirth.com.au/product/oasis-elite-birth-pool/

Can’t believe the baby is so grown!

Edie has started a YouTube channel reading to little kids.
She aims to read a variety of books in under 5 mins
🌼It’s wholesome
🌼Safe for kids
🌼Educational
🌼Fun or funny stories (usually a lesson in it like being kind or sharing)
🌼Aussie stories feature more heavily
🌼we want people learning English to find it helpful
🌼We hope it can be a channel mums can pop their bubs on when desperate and know they’re just going to be read nice stories

🥰We are majorly tech challenged so it’s as much a learning experience for mama her as for Edie girl. But lighting sound editing photography and big bro helping with it - and then Different angles and styles of reading we are trying until we find one that seems popular and well loved (appreciate feedback!)

Any likes subscribes comments and (here) feedback to make it rad or what you wish you had for your little ones would be great

And If you can share with fam with babies and toddlers and kids under 5 that would be extra amazing! 🙏
https://youtu.be/KlPZXYCWT2A