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Preparation for the surgery includes starting an IV, shaving the pubic hair that shows when your legs are together and inserting a bladder catheter. Her belly will be washed with antiseptic and sterile drapes placed around the incision site. A blood pressure cuff and sensors will be put on her chest and finger to monitor blood pressure, heart rate and blood oxygenation. A curtain will be hung across her upper chest so that she cannot see the operation.

Most cesareans are performed under epidural anesthesia because it is safer than general anesthesia. If an epidural is already in place, the anesthesiologist will strengthen it so that she is numb from the toes to the breastbone.

You will first be asked to change into surgical scrubs. Upon entering the operating room, you will be given a place to sit near the head of the operative table. You will probably also be told not to touch anything that is a part of the "sterile field" for surgery- this is very important, like an airline pilot asking you not to touch the controls once the plane is in the air! The two of you will be able to talk as the operation progresses, which will be reassuring to you both.

If you wish, you can look over the drapes and observe part or all of the cesarean; her doctor will direct you. It's particularly special to see the baby emerge from the uterus, which is not as yucky as it sounds. Both of you should be able to hear your baby's first cry shortly after it's born; if you didn't find out the baby's sex before birth, your doctor will announce the answer at this time. The baby is then handed to the pediatric staff to be dried off, evaluated, and given medications; these duties are essentially the same as with a vaginal birth.

If general anesthesia is used, she will be put under by injection of a medication into her IV. Once unconscious, the anesthesiologist will put a tube down her throat to maintain an airway and deliver a gas anesthetic

The operation generally takes an hour or so. The time from beginning the operation until birth of the baby is typically about five minutes. The greatest part of the time spent after the delivery is for suturing the various tissue layers.

With rare exceptions, the roughly four-inch incision is made horizontally just above the pubic bone. A horizontal uterine incision is preferred because it produces a much stronger scar. However, in certain situations, such as when the placenta is covering the cervix, the incision is made vertically.

During the surgery, she will feel pulling and tugging but no pain. The manipulations could make her queasy, so reassure her that this is normal.

After the delivery, the obstetrician hands off the baby to be examined. Some hospitals permit healthy babies to remain with your partner and you during the rest of the operation. In others, staff will take the baby to the nursery, regardless of the baby's condition.

As the hospital staff examines the newborn, the obstetrician delivers the placenta through the incision, suctions out fluid and begins closing the uterus and inner tissue layers with stitches. The skin incision may be closed with conventional stitches, staples, or even with tape strips. Finally, the surgical wound is covered with a dressing

After the surgery, she will be taken to a recovery area where she can be closely monitored for the next couple of hours. In some hospitals, the staff will bring her the baby to hold and breastfeed. Policies vary as well as to whether your can be with her in recovery and whether may be in the nursery with the baby.

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Driving traffic into your landing page – it sounds easy, doesn't it? Well, it's not. And no matter how great your landing page is, it wont matter if no one ever reads it. Furthermore, if everyone in the world other than your target audience reads it, it also wont matter. This is why you need to find media through which you can drive targeted visitors to your landing page.

One way in which you can drive traffic to your landing page is through natural search engine optimization. This is the slowest process, but it is also one of the best ways to ensure a continually increasing stream of traffic over time.

Generating natural search engine traffic generally entails getting links to your site. While reciprocal linking was once the best strategy, experts now believe that major search engines are devaluing reciprocal links in favor of one-way links and triangular links (which search engines can't really detect).

Another way in which to get natural search engine traffic is by optimization your website for certain key phrases. You can do this by creating pages that specifically focus on one keyword on your given niche. You can then set the page extension to that keyword and optimize the content at a 1.5% density for that keyword. You will also want to use it in header and title tags. Now, in addition building natural search engine traffic, you will want to consider using pay per click advertising. You can do this by opening an account with Google Adwords.

As mentioned earlier, successful Google Adwords campaigns do two things: they group keywords into multiple, small, related groups – and they send leads to multiple, tweaked landing pages. This means you will have to start with some careful keyword research; and you will then have to alter your landing pages to match that research. These are some of the most commonly used tools for driving traffic to a landing page; however, they are not always the most effective. Now, both of those methods can be effective, but they both usually have rather high barriers to entry and require a lot of work.

Luckily, you do have another option: human connections. And this is where most Internet marketers fail. They don't realize the power of human connections because they are so caught up in the idea of making transactions and collecting massive checks without having to deal with customers and clients.

One quick way to get traffic through human connections is a joint venture. You can enter into a joint venture by compiling a list of possible “partners” -- or people who might be able to assist you in some mutually-beneficial way. This list might include other list owners in your niche, site owners in your niche, and experts.

There's only one important thing you should keep in mind when contacting joint venture partners – and that is to make it as quick, easy, and beneficial for them as possible. If they have no incentive for doing it, they probably wont even reply to you. And if it isn't easy, they'll accept other joint venture offers over yours.

Another way in which you can drive traffic to your landing page is through blog and forum posting; however, it is important that you do not spam, as many businesses do. Instead, actually participate on the forum, provide people with something of value; and, after a while, post your product in your signature – and try to network with people on the forum who work in similar fields.

Your approach to blog posting should be similar. Include a signature file that links back to your landing page, but don't spam. Instead, post useful comments. This is not only more ethical, but it is plainly more effective. Spam gets deleted. Good comments get praised, inducing people to follow your link and check out your products.