International Cesarean Awareness Network

ChristianityToday.com
A Labor of Love: The Birth Doula
ChristianityToday.com
Unlike midwives, they are not trained in medical procedures, and unlike labor and delivery nurses, they don't go off-shift; they'll stay with a woman from the beginning of active labor to about an hour after delivery. As unlikely as it may seem, ... As ...

Anesthesia increases success rates of turning breech babies, reduces delivery ...
Medical Xpress
... because it increases the likelihood the procedure will work. The turning procedure, called an external cephalic version, or simply a "version," can allow some women with breech babies to avoid a cesarean section and have a head-first vaginal ...

Anesthesia increases success rates of turning breech babies, reduces delivery ...
HealthCanal.com
The turning procedure, called an external cephalic version, or simply a "version," can allow some women with breech babies to avoid a cesarean section and have a head-first vaginal delivery instead. Prior studies have shown that spinal or epidural ...

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Anesthesia Increases Success Rates of Turning Breech Babies
HealthNewsDigest.com
But cesarean sections have their own disadvantages, such as increased risk of maternal hemorrhage, more pain and longer recovery times for the mother after birth, as well as higher hospital costs. As part of their effort to reduce cesarean rates ...

ABC News (blog)
Woman Pregnant After Uterus Transplant
ABC News (blog)
Doctors waited 18 months after Derya Sert's uterus transplant in August 2011 before they implanted an embryo on April 1 using Sert's own egg. Sert, a ... The baby will be born through cesarean section, according to the news agency. Sert was born ...

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Cesarean Awareness Month provides support for all
BurlingtonFreePress.com
The International Cesarean Awareness Network of Northern Vermont is a nonprofit organization that provides support for cesarean recovery and promoting vaginal birth after cesarean. They hold free bi-monthly educational and support meetings for families ...

FDA Approves Return Of Drug For Morning Sickness - Huffington Post
Huffington Post
The government estimates 1 in 33 babies are born with birth defects regardless of medication use during pregnancy, and studies eventually concluded that Bendectin didn't increase that baseline risk. McCabe of the March of Dimes says it's important to ...

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The push for natural birth
KPCnews.com
Natural birth can indicate having a child vaginally, without a cesarean section. Natural birth also can mean having ... 27 after the family dog woke her at 2:30 a.m. The contractions weren't pressing, so she waited until 6:15 a.m. to call her midwife ...

Taking the mystery and fear out of giving birth
phillyBurbs.com
Daub's deep belief in her cause came after her own childbirth experience. After having a cesarean delivery with her first child, because of a single footling breech (baby presenting one foot first) Daub was told she could not have a vaginal birth with ...

Tampa ob-gyn: VBACs may not be a risk worth taking
Tampabay.com
The Tampa Bay Times recently reported on the VBAC debate, the vaginal birth after caesarean section, a complex topic on many fronts. Patients, physicians, insurers and policymakers are all concerned about the high rate of caesarean births. So it's not ...

WCVB Boston
Incisionless Sterilization
WCVB Boston
“And I had been on birth control pills for a long time. It was time ... During the procedure, a doctor uses a camera attached to a narrow instrument (called a hysteroscope) that is inserted through the vaginal opening into the womb to access the tubes ...

BoldSky
Long Term Side Effects Of A C-Section
BoldSky
It is false to say that once you have a c-section delivery, you cannot go for normal vaginal births. But if you take statistics, most second pregnancies after a c-section are not normal births. And if your second pregnancy is also a c-section then the ...

Tracers, counts help defense in retained foreign object cases
ModernMedicine
She also argued that if the laparotomy pad was left during an earlier operation the defendant obstetrician was negligent in failing to perform a proper intraoperative examination of the abdomen during the cesarean. The physician claimed that the sponge ...

At What Point in Pregnancy Does a Woman's Personhood End?
Truth-Out
That's the conclusion drawn by Lynn Paltrow, executive director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women, after years of working with women who've been incarcerated on charges of feticide or fetal homicide ... Then as now, the drive to control women ...

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Two women, one book and a vision to change lives
Ballard News Tribune
The first will be about VBAC (Vaginal birth after cesarean) and the second will cover C-section recovery. Follow Ballard News-Tribune on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ballardnewstrib. And Twitter at http://twitter.com/ballardnewstrib · share · Post to ...

10News
Doctors, moms urged against delivering babies by cesarean section
10News
However, a small Swedish study published last year noted that women with a fear of childbirth were nearly twice as likely to have a C-section as those with no such fears, even after special counseling. More than 90 percent of women who've had a C ...

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KERO-TV 23
Doctors, moms urged against delivering babies by cesarean section
KERO-TV 23
However, a small Swedish study published last year noted that women with a fear of childbirth were nearly twice as likely to have a C-section as those with no such fears, even after special counseling. More than 90 percent of women who've had a C ...

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The Denver Channel
Doctors, moms urged against delivering babies by cesarean section
The Denver Channel
Maternal America hit several modest milestones for births by cesarean section in the past few years. After going up for a decade, the C-section rate held steady at 32.9 percent in 2008 and 2009, then dipped to 32.8 percent in 2010 and stayed there in ...

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kjrh.com
Natural birth or C-section? Doctors, moms being urged to not deliver babies by ...
kjrh.com
After going up for a decade, the C-section rate held steady at 32.9 percent in 2008 and 2009, then dipped to 32.8 percent in 2010 and stayed there in 2011, the latest year figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are available. That ...

New York Medical Malpractice Lawyers at Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald Settle Birth ...
Marketwire (press release)
They stated that the mother of the infant plaintiff had delivered several babies via vaginal birth in the past without incident, but that she reported to the defendant hospital at 34 weeks of gestation after experiencing severe labor pains and some ...

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