ACOG may want to revise its VBAC guidelines after reading this heartwarming story of a mother who, despite being scheduled for her fourth c-section gave birth safely at home with the help of her toddler. No surgeon or anesthesiologist were in sight. The 2-year-old was calm. “I laid on the couch and he went 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 Keyboard Revolutionary – How Does Birth Impact a Mother? By reflecting on her own birth experiences, Jill
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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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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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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 – Mad Birth: Are Today’s Women Better Off Than Betty Draper? Amy Romano contemplates today’s
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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 Well-Rounded Mama – Pregnancy and a HAES Crisis of Confidence: Kmom brings to light how even those
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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 Stand and Deliver – Interview with Dr. Stuart Fischbein: We linked to Dr. Fischbein’s blog on August 23rd.
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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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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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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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