Archive for June, 2010

Uncle Nino, a 2003 movie, springs from a good idea, the encounter between the ancient and the modern culture in order to produce a chain reaction that leads to a final balance. Unfortunately, the film steps on some trite common sense when it tries to brings tenderness and sentiment into the daily life of a dysfunctional family.

After decades, uncle Nino reappears to visit the gravestone of his brother to whom funeral he couldn’t be present. Landing in amazing “America”, uncle Nino is enchanted by this country so different from his home village, presumably someplace in Tuscany, with stone house, garden, sunshine, flowers and dogs. The original peace is substituted by the cold and distant ways of his nephew and family. Familiar life is there extinct, the husband works only, the wife, like as a patient Penelope, waits for things get better, the children seek solace each in his and her own way, the girl longing for a dog, the boy playing hard music in a band (just for a change).

The family has lost its center. They don’t eat together, don’t talk, don’t relate. In this typical advanced society scenario uncle Nino enters full of the Italian feeling that governs hospitality and Read the rest of this entry »

My daughter finished today her math program. In five months, she did the entire sixth grade, and got an A.

Only seven months ago she felt sick and drowsy when entered the course, read the directions, and gave a look at the lessons. She literally felt dizzy and refused to continue. I didn’t force her for her panic was authentic. Read the rest of this entry »

Dr. Betina Bittar

A normal medical birth means that the birth will take place through the vagina and that drugs and surgical procedures will be used to speed the delivery and reduce the mother’s pain. This type of birth necessarily occurs in the hospital.

Indication: Any woman who has not precise or absolute need of a cesarean section.

Betina A. C. Bittar is gynecologist and obstetrician, homeopath, acupuncturist. She lives and works in São Paulo (Brazil).

Dr. Betina Bittar

The birth of a child occurs in a hospital and is expected between 38 and 42 weeks of gestation, but not necessarily expected to occur spontaneously. It can be induced by drugs for the medical staff or his mother at the earliest opportunity.

Even when it spontaneously starts, labor is usually conducted by means of drugs placed in a serum that will remain connected to the woman’s vein (IV) throughout the labor and the delivery, so that the contractions Read the rest of this entry »

“The winner takes it all
The loser has to fall”

One of the most difficult things in a relationship is accepting to lose the loved one. It’s not simple for anyone, and it may require years to digest the experience. It’s persistent and varied the range of pretexts that we can make up and that costs us time and energy, while life goes on. Read the rest of this entry »

In times of holidays, kin reunions and joy are expected. Not always, though, the heart is happy. Family life is one of the biggest challenges of our times. Blood bonding doesn’t guarantee likely mentalities and values. As for everything, there are the conservatives who adapt themselves and don’t question, and the restless who look for something more than the shining superficiality of the appearances. Read the rest of this entry »

Despite the surgical procedures, normal operatory birth’s recovery is faster and less traumatic and painful than the C-section’s recovery. It is preferable that for the first forty days after giving birth, the new mom takes easy slowing down and resting during the postpartum.

Betina A. C. Bittar is gynecologist and obstetrician, homeopath, acupuncturist. She lives and works in São Paulo (Brazil).