In the privacy of a room, Géraldine Olivier and will give birth to Noah. A penalty pushed her first cry, the child is in the arms of his parents. Concurrently, the painless gynecologist gets blood from the umbilical cord still attached to the placenta. We are witnessing in real time, a gift that may help save another life ... Indeed, Noah was born left trapped stem cells in cord. Cells that can cure certain leukemias example. Today, this little cord much about him. More and more banks are being developed to store these precious cells for future use.
Welcome to Los Angeles, the capital of baby business. Here no need to make love to have a baby: a test tube and a big cheque are enough.
On one side we have the daddy's seed, the sperm, on the other side we have mummy's egg, the ovule.
The heart of this industry : ovules' sells and purchase. In some agencies parents to be can choose by catalog the biological mother of their son. Brilliant students are ready to put their ovules on the market for 12000 euros.
A lady has a story of endometriosis. Some complementary examinations confirm this diagnosis. An endoscopie surgery is carried. One month later, the results are estimated.
With nearly 3' 800 births in 2004, the maternity of the HUG is largest of Switzerland. Establishment of reference for the hospitals and private clinics of the area, it deals with risk pregnancies, premature births and all other maternal or perinatal complications. Obstetrics made enormous progress these twenty last years, progress giving birth in the 2000's to a speciality: fetal medicine. Did obstetrical art acquire a more scientific aspect because it's now based on clinical studies rather than only on the experiment, for diagnosis tests and interventions.
Jennifer, 25 years, hears of she is expecting a baby. During her pregnancy several events will prompt Jennifer to drinck alcohol. Her future baby will react at those drinks.
Dorine is paraplegic since a plane crash which happened when she was sixteen years old. She has got over her handicap by becoming a pilot. Through this film, she tells us an exceptional testimony, we follow Dorine in her most beautiful fight, to give birth to a child.
Treatments for certain types of cancer are improving all the time. For most types of leukemia, as well as breast cancer, when the disease is detected early enough, cure rates are now 85%. For women of childbearing age, however, there is a further anxiety factor: the chemotherapy and radiation treatments that save patients' lives can also render them infertile. Now a new approach, in use at the McGill Reproductive Centre, is helping to overcome this problem.
7000 babies are born each year in France like Steven or Louis, handicapped because their mother absorbed alcohol during their pregnancy. Alcohol is for the fœtus a very dangerous toxic poison, even in small quantity, and can induce important mental, physical and behavioral problems. But, among the future mothers, very few are informed and physicians who know the issue are few. Among them, The original pediatricians. Following their work from Roubaix to La Réunion, we understand better the complexity of this important public health issue and the urgency for the State to deal with it.
BIRTHS WITH the BLUETS a documentary film of Mona ACHACHE
The film is the illustration of the essential bonds that the team of Bluets knew to weave between the pregnancy, the preparation with the childbirth, the birth and the first days of the child. It shows the complete course of the women in their last months before the arrival of the baby by holding account of the work achieved within maternity by the medical team.
Transversal posterior colpotomy is an excellent approach to the Douglas. The tubal pregnancy is easily located and may be treated according to the same techniques and indications as the classical lapenotomy : salpingectomy or salingotomy are easily and rapidly performed in 30 minutes on average. The operations are as simple and safe as surgical coelioscopy. Colpo-surgery has a bright future.
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