International Cesarean Awareness Network

Cesarean rates on rise even in low-risk pregancies
The Hill (blog)
But cesarean delivery is also major surgery, with potential risks for both mother and baby compared to vaginal delivery. Cesarean birth is associated with higher rates of infection, re-hospitalization after childbirth, longer and more painful recovery, ...

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Syracuse New Times
Cesarean Stories
Syracuse New Times
... Network, Inc. (ICAN) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to improve maternal-child health by preventing unnecessary cesareans through education, providing support for cesarean recovery, and promoting Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC).

Syracuse New Times
Cesarean Stories
Syracuse New Times
April is Cesarean Awareness Month as proclaimed by the International Cesarean Awareness Network and recognized by the National Institutes of Health. ICAN of Syracuse and BirthNetwork CNY are partnering on an art exhibit in honor of Cesarean ...

Camila McConaughey: My Tough Pregnancy Resulted In a C-Section
People Magazine
Although pregnancy they say helps a woman with enodmetrriosis feel better. Who knows. Hope she gets better. And one c-section is bad enough. Especially if she had two vaginal births and wasn't planning on a c section. Get better Camila! Does this mean ...

Camila McConaughey: My Tough Pregnancy Resulted In a C-Section
People Magazine
Although pregnancy they say helps a woman with enodmetrriosis feel better. Who knows. Hope she gets better. And one c-section is bad enough. Especially if she had two vaginal births and wasn't planning on a c section. Get better Camila! Does this mean ...

Camila McConaughey: My Tough Pregnancy Resulted In a C-Section
People Magazine
Plenty of celebs had said they don't have nannies (for example, Nicole Richie and Joel Madden said shortly after Harlow's birth that they were sans nanny at that point, and Mayim Bialak said in an article in last week's PEOPLE that she doesn't have a ...

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Sadly, mother doesn't know best in Ireland's rigid childbirth regime
Irish Examiner
The college also revised its guidelines on “vaginal birth after caesarean”, and said that it was a “safe and appropriate choice” for most women who have had a caesarean to have a “natural” delivery next time. The woman in the Waterford case wanted to ...

Why are some hospitals more likely to perform C-sections?
Macleans.ca (blog)
Now imagine if, instead of your morning coffee, we were talking about whether you were going to get surgery or not: If where you sought care determined what kind of care you received, such as the difference between having your abdomen cut open for a ...

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BlissTree
The Term 'Birth Rape' Hurts Both Moms And Sexual Assault Survivors
BlissTree
It often involves doctors or midwives shoving fingers or other medical instruments into a woman's vagina during childbirth without any warning, and sometimes even continuing after the woman screams out in pain or loudly objects. The term has continued ...

Fundraiser forum and filmscreening for Start from Seed will focus on maternal ...
Mountain Xpress
Their statistics include: 0% rate of cesarean birth for breech babies, a 96.8% rate of VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean), 0% maternal mortality and morbidity, and 1.7% neonatal mortality rate (compared to a range of 9.5% in 1970 to 7% in 2010 in the US).

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Frederick News Post (subscription)
Mom wants to make giving birth a better experience for women
Frederick News Post (subscription)
... emotional changes that women experience as a pregnancy progresses. Birth Journey classes are for pregnant couples, and the VBAC workshop is for women hoping to have a vaginal birth after giving birth by C-section. The Frederick classes begin April 7.

Recovering from my second labor with the end result of 2 c-sections...ughh
Mothering
I was visiting the hospital every day or every other day for Non Stress Tests, Amniotic Fluid for a full week after my midwife first suggested I consider an induction or c-section for low amniotic fluid. I had low fluid with my first and I had no ...

Beyond 40 weeks
Mothering
If your SIL wore high heels and worked a desk job for ten years before she had babies, then I'd totally buy that as a reason why a vaginal birth wasn't so possible for her. (I might have done that too, a little bit, and it would explain why it was so ...

WTSP 10 News
Mom squad March 11th, 2013
WTSP 10 News
She had four c-sections, but for the fifth baby she wanted a VBAC (vaginal birth after c-section). Her doctor is a well-established veteran of obstetrics and gynecology and only a handful of doctors in the nation who is doubly certified in genetics ...

Expecting Twins? It's Your Call
dailyRx
Meanwhile, 60 percent of the women who planned a vaginal birth gave birth to at least one of the twins vaginally. Four percent of the women who planned a vaginal birth delivered their second twin by a C-section after vaginally delivering their first twin.

If this is your third baby...
Mothering
I was so attached to having a great birth experience the first two times and was let down. This time, I don't care all that much how the baby gets here as long as we're both healthy. I mean, of course I prefer vaginal over cesarean and it would be nice ...

Cadillac News (subscription)
Nurse shares what it is like to run Mercy's Family Birth Center
Cadillac News (subscription)
Then, women could expect to be hospitalized three to five days after delivery if there were no complications, Barnes recalls. Now, it's between 36 and 48 hours following a vaginal birth and 48 to 72 hours after a Cesarean section. "Women are up and ...

Opposing Views
Doctor Threatens to Call Police on Lisa Epsteen After She Delays C-Section
Opposing Views
When she was in the process of choosing a doctor shortly after learning of her pregnancy, she joined several advocacy groups for women wishing to attempt a vaginal birth after caesarean. That's how she found Yankowitz, who decided to take on her high ...
Florida mom, 35, is pregnant with her fifth babyDaily Mail

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Differences in C-section rates raise questions
The News Journal (blog)
And once a woman has one C-section, she's more likely to have another in future pregnancies, even if she meets the criteria for a vaginal birth after a C-section, also known as a VBAC. Less than 2 percent of all births in Delaware are VBAC, according ...

Trial of labor after C-section uncommon, but often successful
Ob.Gyn. News Digital Network
SAN FRANCISCO – Few women in a general U.S. obstetric practice are given a trial of labor after a previous cesarean birth, but the majority do have a vaginal delivery, a study has shown. A team led by Dr. Kirsten Salmeen, a fellow in maternal-fetal ...