Rather than going home to my 2-year-old, I was hooked up to an IV blood thinner. These meds don't break up the clot, but they prevent it from getting bigger and stop new clots from forming.

First weeks post-birth Ilestedt did pelvic-floor work in preparation for a vaginal birth but ends up having a C-section. She gives birth to a daughter, Mila, on August 30, 2024.

About 30 percent of births are via C-section, said Katie Kelly, a pelvic floor physical therapist in New Brunswick, Canada. That’s “a lot of women who could potentially have issues,” she said.

Hospitals across the U.S. have been adopting the recommendation—aimed at preventing fatal blood clots—since it was published in the medical journal Obstetrics & Gynecology in 2016.

A 2014 study found that out of 466,000 women who delivered through C-section and received the standard nondrug therapy of pneumatic compression devices applied to the legs to reduce clotting risk ...

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