Your weekly one-stop for highlights from the birth blogosphere. Visit weekly for the latest on childbirth, especially related to cesarean prevention, recovery, and VBAC. To nominate a blog post to be featured here, email me at blog@ican-online.org Science & Sensibility – Does It? Really? “WHO Admits: There Is No Evidence for Recommending a 10-15%
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Krista Cornish Scott remembered her eight-year-old’s cesarean in real time on Facebook earlier this week. We are re-posting it here:
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Your weekly one-stop for highlights from the birth blogosphere. Visit weekly for the latest on childbirth, especially related to cesarean prevention, recovery, and VBAC. To nominate a blog post to be featured here, email me at blog@ican-online.org National Advocates for Pregnant Women – NAPW Writing Contest Winners Selected: Four law students were selected as 1st,
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Your weekly one-stop for highlights from the birth blogosphere. Visit weekly for the latest on childbirth, especially related to cesarean prevention, recovery, and VBAC. To nominate a blog post to be featured here, email me at blog@ican-online.org The Daily Beast – The C-section Backlash: Danielle Friedman writes about Joy Szabo, who continues to garner national
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For Immediate Release ICAN Mother Provides Testimony on Capitol Hill Discriminatory Insurance Practices Investigated by Senate HELP Committee REDONDO BEACH, CA, October 15, 2009 – Gretchen Humphries, Advocacy Director for the International Cesarean Awareness Network accompanied Peggy Robertson of Centennial, Colorado to a Senate hearing in the Health, Education, Labor and
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Your weekly one-stop for highlights from the birth blogosphere. Visit weekly for the latest on childbirth, especially related to cesarean prevention, recovery, and VBAC. To nominate a blog post to be featured here, email me at blog@ican-online.org Science & Sensibility – Healthy Birth Blog Carnival: Let Labor Begin on Its Own: ICAN’s very own President
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Most women who have had more than one cesarean are told that a repeat cesarean is the safest choice for their births. Many are not even offered the option by their doctors or hospitals. Not so, according to recent research published in the British Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology (BJOG). A systematic review and meta
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Your weekly one-stop for highlights from the birth blogosphere. Visit weekly for the latest on childbirth, especially related to cesarean prevention, recovery, and VBAC. To nominate a blog post to be featured here, email me at blog@ican-online.org ICAN – Mother-sized Activism:Page Hospital VBAC Ban: We won’t toot our own horn too often here, but several
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Welcome birth advocates to our first installment of the “Mother-Sized Activism” feature on this blog, where we take an issue and put the relevant information together so you can grab a few minutes out of your day and help make a real difference. So many of us can get overwhelmed thinking of all the work
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Birth doula and photographer Patti Ramos sent us a link to her photo (above) of the "wounded womb." Thank you, Patti! For a complete description of what happens during a cesarean, read ICAN’s white paper,"Cesarean – What Happens During Surgery?"
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