Pregnant and Snore? Maybe C-Section, and Small Baby
OK, I admit it. I snore. Mostly when I have a cold, and I'm sure I snored when I was pregnant, which, a new study has found, leads to a higher risk for C-sections -- and smaller babies. I had a C-section and the doctors placed bets on just how big my baby would be. Turns out he was only 8.15 (some had said 11 pounds), so I'm not sure that's always true. But for some strange reason, snoring affects fetuses in the womb. "Chronic snorers (moms who snored before and during pregnancy) are two thirds more likely to have a baby that’s born below the tenth percentile for babies of the same gestational age (smaller than 90 percent of other babies the same gestation) compared to non-snorers," reports newswise.com. They are also more than twice as likely to need an elective C-section, researchers found. Now, I had a C-section because I was an older mom and apparently, we're the ones most likely to have one, out of the general pregnant population. And it was s...