Today, we are featuring some of the blogs of our very own ICAN Chapters! Is your chapter on the list? ICAN of Louisville–A great place to stay in the loop for Louisville local chapter happenings and to stay on top of birth related information. The blog writers do a great job of keeping everyone connected!
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There are many wonderful blogs out there, so we mean for this to be just a little taste of places to start your reading and research. In no particular order, here are 5 of our favorite research blogs*: Stand and Deliver–Canadian writer and blogger Rixa Freeze received a master’s degree in American history from Ohio
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In 2012, we are celebrating ICAN’s 30 year anniversary! We are very excited and we have big plans for celebrating our anniversary this year. We will be celebrating with theme months all year long, so stay tuned to the Blog for many exciting things to come. Starting Monday for the first month of our celebration,
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On behalf of ICAN, we would like to wish everyone a very happy and healthy holiday season. We would also like to take the time to discuss induction of labor, since the holidays seem to be a popular time for labor induction in many women. When necessary for the health of mother and baby, induction
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Authored by Elliott Main, MD, Christine Morton, PhD, David Hopkins PhD, Giovanna Giuliani, MBA, MPH, Kathryn Melsop, MS and Jeffrey Gould, MD, MPH, a recently released white paper by the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative posits that the increasing rate of cesarean delivery in the United States should be of serious concern both for financial
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The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists reaffirmed their Committee Opinion originally released in 2007 of cesarean delivery on maternal request in a publication released online today. The opinion was on the subject of primary cesarean delivery on maternal request with no medical indications for a cesarean delivery–in other words, a first time cesarean delivery
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We are currently seeking the original writers for Cesarean Voices. If your story was included in the book, please contact Martha Basham at publications@ican-online.org as soon as possible! Thank you!
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Reuters reported online yesterday the findings of a recent study conducted by researchers at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore. Led by Dr. Erika F. Werner, an obstetrician at the medical school, the study found from a sample size of 400,000 first time mothers “. . . that newborns delivered by forceps were 45
Contacts: Desirre Andrews, 719-331-1292, president@ican-online.org Gretchen Humphries, 517-745-7297, advocacy@ican-online.org For Immediate Release Cesarean Rate Nearly Static at 32.8% Redondo Beach, CA, November 23, 2011 – The National Center for Health Statistics has reported that the cesarean rate in 2010 has slightly dipped to an overall rate of 32.8 percent, down from 32.9 percent from 2009. The one-tenth
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News is breaking all over the internet today about the drop between 2009 and 2010 in the US cesarean rate, according to the CDC’s latest release of birth statistics in the United States. It is the first time in over a decade the cesarean rate has not increased. Although the drop is small–32.9% to 32.8%–it
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