I wonder if she got new implants, that’s the rumor and her boobs I just saw a picture look bigger and very up and hard like implants tend to look. She lost all the baby weight though, I saw a pic of her today in a white dress.

I would highly suggest the book “Born in the USA” by Marsden Wagner. It is incredibly well researched and written by a man who has practiced perinatology, both in private practice and research (as a scientist). For 15 years he was also Director of Women’s and Children’s Health for the World Health Organization. The man is brilliant and has a lot of VERY interesting things to say about obstetric care in America, including the rising rate of C-section and artificially induced childbirth.

Everyone has an opinion, but not everyone has a good argument. Most of us are not experts and base our ideas and opinions on life experience and the experiences of the small collection of people we know or have heard of. This is entirely normal, but also completely unscientific. If we could all publish books based on our own small information base, the world would be full of gross misinformation. It already is to some extent! One must be very careful where their information comes from. Who paid for the study? What source is the information coming from and what is the agenda of that source?

In the end, we all usually keep our own opinions, but it seems a good idea to at least keep ourselves well informed from all angles.

Yup, lets legislate that every one should have a freebirth, unassisted by even midwives. Let the madness commence.

Dancer, you said there is no such thing as a natural birth because all women have some intervention – I take it you’ve never heard of freebirth, also known as unassisted childbirth? Might open your eyes a bit as to the options at the far opposite end of the spectrum.

Annoynomus, it’s none of your business who wants to get a c-section. If someone wants to get an elective c-section, it’s none of your concern. What bugs me about people who push “natural” birth, is that they hate to see people choose something they don’t agree with. It’s not your body, so butt out. If you want elective c-sections banned, then all c-sections should also be banned. Then we would see how many howls of protest would come from husbands of dead wives and parents of dead children.

The reason I feel so strongly about c-sections is beacuse I have many friends whose bodies and health were destroyed by doctors and insurance companies who didn’t want to perform c-sections. These people who play with people’s health are aided and abetted by these natural birth advocates who want to take away choices from other women.

I bet if a survey were done of the number of purely elective c-sections, those that are not done for any health reasons, they would be a miniscule percentage of all c-sections. The vast majority of c-sections done are emergency.

BTW, there is no such thing as a natural birth. If you are not giving birth alone out in the bush, it’s not a natural birth, the way our foremothers did for thousands of years.

Dancer- I can see you have some very strong feelings about C-sections and people who are against them. Personally, I am also against C-sections…But ONLY when they are clearly NOT neccesary. I understand that there are times when C-sections are medically neccessary, and in those cases, I see nothing wrong with having one.

What I am against is elective C-sections that are done for no reason other than that the mother doesn’t want to give birth vaginally. I just don’t see why anyone would actually choose to have major abdominal surgery. Personally, I think that elective C-sections should be banned!

I LOVE Tori! She’s so real and her show is endearing. Here is a celebrity that slowly took their weight off safetly. I am really proud of her to do it the right way despight the “anorexic look” in Hollywood. She’s a great role model! =)

Here’s my two cents on c-sections. My son’s fetal movements really slowed down a couple days before he was born. I went in to be monitored twice before being admitted to labor and deliver. I knew something was wrong and am so thankful for my c-section.

I never went into labor, but had a c-section only to find out that my son had pooped meconium in the amniotic fluid. I had a fever and he had to spend the first four hours of his life in the special care nursury.

If I hadn’t insisted on accelerating labor (doctors didn’t even wait to induce), there’s no telling what could of happened to my son or myself!

lol never mind im blind i didnt even read it……

i would like to read the whole article-does anyone have it coz people’s website doesn’t seem to =(

great pics.can’t believe liam is almost 6mths already.

Sarah’s note: That is the whole article. There’s one more new pic of Tori in the magazine that I didn’t include since Liam was not in it.