International Cesarean Awareness Network

Chicago Tribune
1st free-standing birth center in Illinois may open
Chicago Tribune
Birth centers are often championed as a safe alternative that can cut health care costs, improve access for medically underserved populations and reduce the number of babies delivered by cesarean section. ... Research also suggests that women who use ...

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Q&A: Sex After Baby?
Vitals Spotlight
Having a lowered sex drive or libido after delivering a baby is very normal. According to a scientific study of women who had just given birth within the last year, one out of five mothers had no interest in sex for three months after delivery ...

New Study Shows Midwife-Led Birth Centers Improve Outcomes and Lower ...
GlobeNewswire (press release)
Because payments for care are nearly 50 percent greater for women who have cesareans versus those who give birth vaginally, study findings suggest that the use of birth centers also decreases direct and indirect costs to the US health care system ...

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New Study Shows Midwife-Led Birth Centers Improve Outcomes and Lower ...
CisionWire (press release)
Because payments for care are nearly 50 percent greater for women who have cesareans versus those who give birth vaginally, study findings suggest that the use of birth centers also decreases direct and indirect costs to the US health care system ...

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TIME
Midwives Say Birthing Centers Could Cut C-Section Rates and Save Billions
TIME
Follow @TIMEHealthland. If more pregnant women delivered their babies at midwife-led birth centers, the nation's C-section rate would go down and cost savings would go up, reversing the current twin trend of rising health care expenditures and numbers ...
New Study Shows Midwife-Led Birth Centers Improve Outcomes and Lower ...GlobeNewswire (press release)

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So upset regarding insurance and choices
Mothering
For an in network hospital, they pay 80% after deductible. I have no clue what it costs to birth at a hospital ... Does anyone have a clue what a hospital birth could cost (I guess it depends on length of stay, interventions, c-section) but the average ...

Karolína Kurková: Why I Chose Natural Childbirth
People Magazine (blog)
Took me 29 hours to have my daughter and that was hell especially after they pulled me from the epidural. .... The facts are that C-sections and unnecessary inductions are more dangerous for children then a natural vaginal birth. ... I had a c-section ...

Long-term consequences of vaginal delivery on the pelvic floor
EurekAlert (press release)
Women are more likely to experience urinary incontinence, prolapse and faecal incontinence 20 years after one vaginal delivery rather than one caesarean section, finds new research published in a thesis from Sahlgrenska Academy, University of ...

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Extreme Morning Sickness In Second Trimester Ups Pregnancy Risks (STUDY)
Huffington Post
In the study, mothers-to-be who were hospitalized for severe morning sickness, called hyperemesis gravidarum, during their second trimester were twice as likely to developpreeclampsia, and 1.4 times more likely to give birth to a baby that was small ...

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