International Cesarean Awareness Network

iTech Post
Fat kids? Blame C-section
iTech Post
After taking into account several additional factors including the mother's weight, and how long the child was breast-fed, eleven year olds delivered by C-section were compared to those delivered vaginally, revealing a huge 83 percent risk of the ...

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A fate worse than death for scores of African women
CNN
This creates a hole, or a "fistula," between a woman's vagina and her bladder or rectum. Her baby ... After hours of unsuccessful labor and not knowing how to perform a cesarean, the doctors used a scalpel to sever the baby inside the woman's birth ...

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Controversy - Caesarian Section, the Rule or Option?
AllAfrica.com
Caesarean section or delivery also known as C-section is a birth through an incision in the abdominal wall (laparotomy) and uterus (hysterotomy) rather than through the vagina. CS is performed whenever abnormal conditions complicate labour and vaginal ...

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Study: Elective surgery rates high in Valley
Fresno Business Journal
Several other procedures were well below the state average in many parts of the San Joaquin Valley, including vaginal birth after cesarean, hip replacements, cervical decompression, vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty, lumpectomy and radical prostatectomy ...

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Study: Elective surgery rates high in Valley - The Business Journal
Fresno Business Journal
Several other procedures were well below the state average in many parts of the San Joaquin Valley, including vaginal birth after cesarean, hip replacements, cervical decompression, vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty, lumpectomy and radical prostatectomy ...

Twins Hold Hands After Birth In Remarkable Image Of First Embrace (VIDEO)
Huffington Post
The striking image, taken at a hospital in northern Spain, shows twins holding hands shortly after birth. Delivered by Caesarean section at a hospital in Gipuzkoa, Danel and Maria were placed alongside each other in an incubator when the twins grabbed ...

Natural birthing practices ... harmful or not?
The Freeport News
According to a report, in 1996, the World Health Organization (WHO) assembled birth experts from around the world to identify common practices in normal birth that were justified, that improved birth outcomes, and that ought to be encouraged for sound ...

How not to gain too much pregnancy weight
Fox News
There's also a greater chance that you could have a miscarriage, a stillborn baby, deliver early or be required to have a cesarean section. Your baby could also develop birth defects and detecting them with an ultrasound can be tricky if you're obese ...

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Midwifery community upset over new DHS guidelines
KPHO Phoenix
He said while they won't compromise on everything, they have expanded the scope of practice to include allowing midwives to perform at-home vaginal births after mom has had a cesarean section. "In terms of the scope of practice, it's essentially ...

Press-Enterprise
HEALTH CARE: Inland hospitals working to reduce Cesarean deliveries
Press-Enterprise
Many Inland hospitals are working to educate doctors and patients, revise hospital policies and encourage vaginal births after Cesareans when possible. C-section rates vary greatly among local hospitals. For instance, a woman in labor is almost three ...

Experience of Childbirth in First-time Mothers of Advanced Age
Medscape
Results Primiparous women aged 32 years and above expressed more worry about the upcoming birth than the younger women (adjusted OR 1.13; 95% CI 1.06–1.21), and 6 months after the birth they had a slightly higher risk of having experienced childbirth ...

Weight loss improves VBAC success in overweight/obese women
Ob.Gyn. News Digital Network
NEW ORLEANS – Weight gain between pregnancies decreases the likelihood of a successful vaginal birth after cesarean section, according to findings from a large population-based retrospective cohort study. The more weight a woman gains between ...

Risky Procedures Common in US Maternity Care: Survey
Medscape
Almost half of the women in the survey who had had a previous cesarean (48%) reported they were interested in the option of a vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC), but 46% were denied that option. In 24% of cases, the reason for denial was unwillingness ...

Support Groups
GoErie.com
The International Cesarean Awareness Network of Erie meets the second Wednesday of each month, 6 to 7:45 p.m., in Blasco Library's Admiral Room, 160 E. Front St. Call Sarah Imig at 460-7636 or e-mail her at icanoferie@yahoo.com or visit ...

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Columbus Dispatch
Book review | The Business of Baby: Book questions care of infants, mothers in US
Columbus Dispatch
The American woman has a cesarean section and dies after complications from the surgery. In the well-documented new book, armed with ... On average, hospitals make almost $20,000 more for a C-section than for a vaginal birth. Also troubling, if less ...

NPR
C-Sections Deliver Cachet For Wealthy Brazilian Women
NPR
But one thing they rarely do here is preside over a vaginal delivery. Dr. Alexandre Sasaoka struggles to remember the last time he assisted ... Brazil has one of the world's highest rates of cesarean deliveries: Some 80 to 90 percent of women in ...

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The paradoxes of being pregnant again - Rappler.com
Rappler
For one thing, since I delivered via caesarean section the first time, I'd really like to explore the option of VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean) this time. I brought it up with my doctor as soon as I had the chance. Not only did she tell me that we ...

2 Minute Medicine
Better pre-term outcomes after vaginal delivery
2 Minute Medicine
1. Among pre-term neonates, the likelihood of respiratory distress, low Apgar and death was higher after cesarean compared with vaginal delivery. 2. Vaginal delivery may provide benefit to preterm infants, particularly with regard to respiratory function.

New York Medical Malpractice Lawyers at Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald Win $2550000 ...
Marketwire (press release)
It was assigned a case number of 94238A and it sought damages that would compensate the plaintiff for losses incurred as a result of serious injuries suffered while being cared for immediately before, during and after her birth that included cerebral ...

Weight Loss Linked to VBAC Success in Overweight Women
Medscape
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana — Interpregnancy weight change significantly affects a woman's chance of a successful vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) delivery, according to new research presented here at the American Congress of Obstetricians and ...