Researchers led by Christine Kettle, Ph.D., of the University Hospital of North Staffordshire, in England, found that women stitched with synthetic sutures had less pain in the three days aftergiving birth, and took fewerpainkillersover the next 10 days. However, stitching technique — and the ...
Buy a shallow mini-tub called a sitz bath that fits over the toilet seat and allows you to soak the stitches for cleansing and pain relief. (Just remember that warm water soaks are not to be started until at least 24 hours after giving birth.) Change your pad every 2 to 4 hours. Us...
I still stand by those words and that call to action. Friends, I’ve never attempted to sugarcoat adoption. It’s hard. Somedays you’ll wonder if you’re strong enough for the challenge, before, during, and after your child is placed with you. I know that I have! But, it is abso...
Here, for instance, are some lines any of us might have heard uttered about persons we knew who have died: How many of those I knew men, women have crossed that threshold passed over that bridge— How many, after a shorter or longer life good, because it’s beginning, bad, because ...
Tucked away on one side is a display of masons’ marks, some in Arabic, that have been copied by the teams that look after the building. I loved this, as I said in my Burgos post, I always wonder who built these places, so it was brilliant to see this evidence, and imagine them...