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Less Cesareans with Induction of Labor? Read the Fine Print!

Media reports this past week have hyped a recent study claiming that induction of labor may actually reduce the need for cesarean. These findings appear to contradict previous research and generally held opinion. However, these reports have underplayed and under-reported the substantial caveats offered by the researchers about their findings. Although the authors do report

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Best of the Birth Blogs – Week Ending August 16th

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This new (hopefully) weekly feature will highlight blog posts from the previous week (or so) that are relevant to cesaren prevention, recovery, and VBAC. If you would like to nominate a blog post to be featured here, email me at blog@ican-online.org. Gloria LeMay – “A Proven Method for Reducing the Cesarean Rate”: Gloria reviews a

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ICAN President on the Radio

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ICAN President Desirre Andrews was interviewed this morning on KPFT out of Houston, TX during the Whole Mother show. You can listen here.

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We Freakin' Did it: A Freewheelin' VBA3C in Milwaukee

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A beautiful birth story is making the rounds online. What makes this particular story so inspiring is the fact that it shouldn’t have happened, at least not by current obstetric practice standards. Annmarie Schulte gave birth to her first three children by cesarean, a fact that should have landed her square in the OR for

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Guest Blogger: Is a Woman in Labor a “Person”? New Assaults on Pregnant Women’s Civil Rights in NJ Case

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Bringing ICAN’s 25-year-plus tradition of support and education in the mother-to-mother and sister-to-sister model into the internet age, we have invited passionate blogging women to join us around our virtual circle of women. We hope to introduce you to new voices that you have not heard before, and also to respected voices that will already

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Ricki Lake's New Celebrity Birth Series

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Amy Slotnick My Best Birth Amy@mybestbirth.com (646) 335-2684 RICKI LAKE LAUNCHES EXCLUSIVE CELEBRITY WEBISODE SERIES ON MYBESTBIRTH.COM Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington, Laila Ali, Melissa Joan Hart, Alyson Hannigan are among featured celebrities sharing personal birth stories as part of the series Los Angeles, June 25, 2009–Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein, the

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What I Love About My Cesarean

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Jasmine Ojala is a mother of two children and a member of ICAN of the Twin Cities. In this post she shares her reflections on what she’s learned from her births. I have learned and grown so much through my two birth experiences. I had a traumatic cesarean three and a half years ago and

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Are Mothers Driving Up the Cesarean Rate?

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A report on Enterprisenews.com would have us all believe that the cesarean rate in the U.S. is being driven in some significant way by mothers demanding elective cesareans with hapless obstetricians following their orders. But is this true? While the Enterprise article cites the experiences of medical personnel in one Massachusetts city, researchers

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Insurance Denial for Cesarean Illegal in MN

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As of August 1st, it will be illegal for insurance companies to deny coverage to women with a previous cesarean in the state of Minnesota. The Twin Cities chapter of ICAN worked along with the Minnesota Better Birth Coalition to promote this legislation. State Senator John Marty introduced the bill, joined by Senators Prettner-Solon, Pappas,

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