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    The customer is paying the bill, and so has every right to complain about an unsatisfactory meal. That goes for everyone, not just those with celiac disease. If the restaurant chooses not to listen to customer comments, then they may end up losing those customers. It's great that some restaurants offer menu choices for specific diets (gluten-free, low-fat...
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    Hmm, I don't recall having difficulty walking afterward, but it was a number of years ago. The cervix has no nerve endings so the pain isn't necessarily local to the lasered site...it was more like heavy cramping, but I believe they gave a local anesthetic anyway (I had no anesthetic with the original colposcopy.) With the laser treatment, there wasn't a...
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    Some say that distilled water is not safe to drink on an ongoing basis, because it lacks any type of minerals. I prefer not to drink our tap water since it is treated with chloramine (chlorine + ammonia) and fluoride. I drink reverse osmosis water at home instead. Michelle
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    I don't know if a midwife could have "done any better," but she likely would have been supporting you during labour unlike your preoccupied doctor, and would have known when it was time to transfer to hospital and/or consult a doctor. Though it sounds like hospital was a good choice given your history...there is a point where midwifes must defer to a doctor...
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    I agree. I think midwives should be the standard caregiver for all women, and doctors brought in only as needed. They are cheaper, but provide a more in depth service to women...longer prenatal visits, get to know the mother and her needs/desires very well, and are more supportive through the process of labour. To have midwives for most births would go a...
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    It's really a shame how a natural process has been so medicalized. Hospitals and doctors are important for those who need additional medical care, but for a simple, healthy pregnancy and birth there is little need for medical intervention. However, a midwife does bring all the necessary tools for emergency situations, and can quickly assess whether a trip...
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    I haven't had the LEEP procedure, but did have laser surgery for cervical dysplasia (LEEP is the newer technology.) The laser procedure didn't take too long, and recovery didn't take long either. I had my husband come with me for moral support (I was pretty upset with having to have the laser surgery.) The doctor used a camera & monitor during the procedure...
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    They won't give you info until a week before? My gastroscopy (upper GI endoscopy) was booked for end of November, and I was given the information packet and consent forms when we booked (mid-August!) Heck, I have the info packet for my colonoscopy too, and it's not scheduled until March! (Yeah, long wait for elective procedures here.) Here is a site...
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    It's a shame that your sister's experiences would make you worried about pregnancy. Every person and pregnancy is different. A narrow pelvis is also not an indicator of a body's ability to birth, because ligaments loosen and are designed to stretch...I'm only 5'3" and have a narrow pelvis too, and had an almost 10 pounder with little trouble. The bigger issue...
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    If you consider even a full-term infant has to develop GI flora, giving the wrong foods or antibotics upsets the normal development of that flora...a premature infant has even more work to develop a healthy system. And colostrum is an important first food to help develop the GI tract while providing a huge boost to develop an infant's immune system. Michelle
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    I think that healthcare is flawed in most provinces. Alberta won't fund midwives, although the studies show they can save the healthcare system a lot of money. OTOH, when a woman hires a midwife here, her money works well for her, since the government has less say in what the midwife can and can't do. I had a less than positive midwife experience when I lived...
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    There could be. I remember reading that vitamin C intake helps strengthen the amniotic sac. If that is the case, then it stands to reason that malabsorption of vitamins and minerals (such as with celiac disease) may make the sac more susceptible to prom. Michelle Given that celiac tendency is hereditary, and it is suspected that there is a trigger...
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    Unfortunately, the medical establishment has too much control over midwives, and in turn, too much control over a woman's choice over how and where to birth. I live in Alberta, and there were no medical reasons to force me into a hospital. I had textbook recoveries from both my cesareans and had healthy pregnancies each time. The risk of uterine rupture...
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    My children had good sized noggins as well, but that had no bearing on whether I had c/s's or not. The surgeon for my second birth said that my son was simply too big to come out (CPD)...which was bull$!&#. I went on to prove him wrong with an even bigger baby the third time 'round. My daughter's head was large, she was 9lbs 12oz, and with a fist on her...
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    Dr Green does go on to say, "No tests in medicine are 100 percent, not everyone with dermatitis herpetiformis will have a positive skin biopsy. A negative biopsy should not necessarily be used to exclude the diagnosis if the legions look and act like dermatitis herpetiformis and occur after the ingestion of gluten. Patients should be retested, making sure...
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    Starting an epidural at all can be a prescription for a c/s! For me, my first c/s was due to breech presentation 3 days post dates...I didn't even labour...and I had a spinal. Second I laboured for a long time before augmentation and epidural. Because I was stuck on my back, my son was unable to move into correct alignment for birth...we both ended up...
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    The reason was in the paragraph I quoted. Dr Green is not the only source of this information. Biopsy (skin & intestinal), for good or bad, is still considered to be the gold standard, and will be until other testing methods become standard. Personally, I put more faith in the word of a Dr who specializes in the study and treatment of celiac disease...
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    But they won't let the mother wait until 2am to have the baby! That's when they'll insist on an "emergency" cesarean (that you get prepped for an then wait forever to have.) Then there is the issue of cesarean section due to medical mismanagement of labour. There is a lack of informed consent when giving women epidurals too...many women do not realize that...
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    I'd ask here to see if anyone has recommendations of drs in your area. I can't give you my dermatologist's name, because he did the biopsy wrong (and got a negative result of course!) Michelle
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    Good article, but old news. This information has been reported many times since I had my first (unnecessary) cesarean section in 1998...and the cesarean rate has been climbing since: November 15, 2005 The CDC reports: Cesarean rate for 2004 is 29.1% The rate is up from 27.6% in 2003 U.S. cesareans have risen 40% since 1996 First-time cesareans...
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    I don't know if it's related to calcium. I have, however, read that psoriasis (an auto-immune condition) can affect the nails. There is information on the National Psoriasis Foundation website: Open Original Shared Link. Michelle
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    Is your dermatologist saying that the sample must be taken from the lesion or beside the lesion? If it is from the lesion, then he is incorrect... Peter H.R. Green, MD, Director of the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University, wrote on the subject of skin biopsy for DH in his recent book. From Celiac Disease: A Hidden Epidemic: "The gold standard...
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    Just so you know where I'm coming from... I've got three kids: 8, 6 and 4. They are generally well-behaved, and we usually get comments about how well they behave in many situations (in a restaurant for example.) I know their limits, and refrain from taking them places where I know we'll have problems (like taking all three of them grocery shopping by...
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    I don't see a reason for you to go gluten free if you aren't personally celiac. It will not affect whether the baby inherits the disease. OTOH, if you were eating a gluten free diet along with your husband already, there would be no reason to add gluten to your diet either. It would be important, however, for a celiac mother to be gluten free during pregnancy...
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    I'm not condoning what the mother did, and I wouldn't be commisserating in that situation either. It sounds like it was an embarassing situation for that family, and it does sound like bad behaviour on the mother's part. Of course, we weren't there so we don't know how everything actually played out. I'm curious, eKatherine, do you have children? Have...
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