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Recommendations of the World Health Organization
Should be disclosed to the public served by hospitals about their practices in the delivery (caesarean, etc.).
There is no justification in any specific geographic region for more than 10 to 15% of births are by cesarean section (the current rate of caesareans in the United States is estimated at around 23%).
There is no evidence that caesarean section is required after a previous Cesarean transverse lower segment. In general, should be favored vaginal delivery after cesarean section, wherever they have an emergency surgical service.
What is the psychological pregnancy
We have often heard of psychological pregnancy, even certain that at some point we believed suffering from it, especially when we suffer menstrual delays of several days.
But do we know exactly what it is and why it occurs? In most cases the mistake to believe that we are pregnant with a real psychological pregnancy.
It is a disease of the mind, ie it is a disease and should be treated as such. Occurs when a woman thinks she is pregnant but is not. Normally happens to women who want a child but do not get it (though it also occurs in men with a lower frequency and pets).
The effects on the woman’s body are the same as a real pregnancy, menstrual cycles are modified and mammary glands, even may have nausea, weight gain and may feel fetal movements.
In the case of men, pregnancy Piscola usually produced by large identification with his pregnant wife.
Treatment for women with this type of pregnancy is psychological or therapeutic value and must be very careful with the person who suffers it not to fall into a depression to know that is not really pregnant.
Psychology: Your Emotional State
For a woman, pregnancy is much more than a fact that compromises your body. It is not only of biological, physical, hormonal, but there is a revolution in psychological and emotional.
For most psychologists pregnancy is an important event in women caused mixed feelings. On the one hand, is a source of great joy, and secondly, the cause of many fears. Emotional changes were already apparent during the first month of the quarter. There’s no physical signs that show evidence of pregnancy, but possibly you are very tired, sleepy, somewhat confused by how the pregnancy will develop more sensitive … It seems that the action of hormones has much to do in that mood. Read the rest of this entry »
Psychological Pregnancy
One in six pregnancies are estimated to be psychological. The last and most significant recent case occurred in the U.S. On opening the uterus and can not find the baby after he tried to induce labor at the hospital found no fetus.
This is an extreme case but not the first time it happens, is a rare psychological disorder but relatively common, common in many mammals (in dogs is very common) and not only in humans. It is estimated that about 22,000 pregnancies are psychological.