ICAN mama and chapter leader Christie Craigie-Carter was featured in the Washington Post yesterday: About 32 weeks into her first pregnancy, Christie Craigie-Carter’s obstetrician told her that the baby she was carrying was stuck in a bottom-down position — a breech baby — and that she’d have to give up her dream of a natural
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The UPI reports of a baby born in a car on the shoulder of an Illinois highway today: An Illinois woman says she and her newborn are doing well after the woman’s boyfriend helped deliver the baby inside a car along Interstate 72. And… Holeman said she and her boyfriend, 24-year-old Justin Howell, were driving
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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 Unnecessarian – Do You Suffer From Physician VBAC Hysteria? Quite a ruckus in the blogosphere this week
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While MSNBC should be commended for it’s recent article on unassisted childbirth, it also joins the ranks of media misrepresentations of the true risks of cesarean surgery. Here’s a breakdown of the article: On the growing prevalence of unassisted birth: The number of home births unattended by either a doctor or a midwife jumped by
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Michelle Duggar (of TLC fame) is a VBAC mom thirteen times over. She and her husband Jim Bob had hoped for a fourteenth, but their newest baby girl was born at 25 weeks by emergency cesarean on December 10th. Nevertheless, the family remains pro-VBAC and even mention ICAN on their website. As reported by The
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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 – A Case of Statistical Malpractice? Predicting the Risk of Uterine Rupture: Amy Romano calls
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ICAN’s Advocacy Director Gretchen Humphries posed with Peggy Robertson who testified before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee about her insurance denial due to previous cesarean on October 15th. Read more about Peggy’s story 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 Patti Ramos – Detached: Perhaps the most heart-wrenching and amazing photo of the cesarean experience I’ve seen to-date.
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Those who attended the ICAN conference last April might remember the stunning black and white photographic image at the silent auction table. It was a very challenging image and generated a lot of conversation. Such stark representations of inner emotions can be important points of catharsis in our healing journey. Jennifer McNichols is a cesarean
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The Colorado Independent has published an article chronicling one reporter’s quest to find non-employer-based maternity coverage in Colorado. In advance of a bill in the state legislature that would require Colorado’s insurance companies to cover maternity, The Colorado Independent searched for non-employer-based maternity health insurance. How did it go? It was unbelievably frustrating. Posing as
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