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The all-important hospital bag – tips on what to pack

Celebrity Baby Blog recently spoke to Cleveland-based OB/GYN Dr. Majorie Greenfield, author of Dr. Spock’s Pregnancy Guide and The Working Woman’s Pregnancy Book, about what to pack in your “time to go to the hospital” bag – both for your labor and post-baby’s arrival.
Click here to read, “The five expert tips.”
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Inducing labor may lead to more C-sections

Reuters Health posted an article last week about the increase of c-sections due to induced labor.
Dr. J. Christopher Glantz at the University of Rochester School of Medicine found that “inducing labor introduces a risk of 1 to 2 cesareans per 25 inductions that might have been avoided by waiting for spontaneous labor to begin.”
C-sections are [...]