International Cesarean Awareness Network

Taking the mystery and fear out of giving birth
phillyBurbs.com
Daub's deep belief in her cause came after her own childbirth experience. After having a cesarean delivery with her first child, because of a single footling breech (baby presenting one foot first) Daub was told she could not have a vaginal birth with ...

Tampa ob-gyn: VBACs may not be a risk worth taking
Tampabay.com
The Tampa Bay Times recently reported on the VBAC debate, the vaginal birth after caesarean section, a complex topic on many fronts. Patients, physicians, insurers and policymakers are all concerned about the high rate of caesarean births. So it's not ...

WCVB Boston
Incisionless Sterilization
WCVB Boston
“And I had been on birth control pills for a long time. It was time ... During the procedure, a doctor uses a camera attached to a narrow instrument (called a hysteroscope) that is inserted through the vaginal opening into the womb to access the tubes ...

BoldSky
Long Term Side Effects Of A C-Section
BoldSky
It is false to say that once you have a c-section delivery, you cannot go for normal vaginal births. But if you take statistics, most second pregnancies after a c-section are not normal births. And if your second pregnancy is also a c-section then the ...

Tracers, counts help defense in retained foreign object cases
ModernMedicine
She also argued that if the laparotomy pad was left during an earlier operation the defendant obstetrician was negligent in failing to perform a proper intraoperative examination of the abdomen during the cesarean. The physician claimed that the sponge ...

At What Point in Pregnancy Does a Woman's Personhood End?
Truth-Out
That's the conclusion drawn by Lynn Paltrow, executive director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women, after years of working with women who've been incarcerated on charges of feticide or fetal homicide ... Then as now, the drive to control women ...

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Two women, one book and a vision to change lives
Ballard News Tribune
The first will be about VBAC (Vaginal birth after cesarean) and the second will cover C-section recovery. Follow Ballard News-Tribune on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ballardnewstrib. And Twitter at http://twitter.com/ballardnewstrib · share · Post to ...

10News
Doctors, moms urged against delivering babies by cesarean section
10News
However, a small Swedish study published last year noted that women with a fear of childbirth were nearly twice as likely to have a C-section as those with no such fears, even after special counseling. More than 90 percent of women who've had a C ...

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KERO-TV 23
Doctors, moms urged against delivering babies by cesarean section
KERO-TV 23
However, a small Swedish study published last year noted that women with a fear of childbirth were nearly twice as likely to have a C-section as those with no such fears, even after special counseling. More than 90 percent of women who've had a C ...

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The Denver Channel
Doctors, moms urged against delivering babies by cesarean section
The Denver Channel
Maternal America hit several modest milestones for births by cesarean section in the past few years. After going up for a decade, the C-section rate held steady at 32.9 percent in 2008 and 2009, then dipped to 32.8 percent in 2010 and stayed there in ...

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kjrh.com
Natural birth or C-section? Doctors, moms being urged to not deliver babies by ...
kjrh.com
After going up for a decade, the C-section rate held steady at 32.9 percent in 2008 and 2009, then dipped to 32.8 percent in 2010 and stayed there in 2011, the latest year figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are available. That ...

New York Medical Malpractice Lawyers at Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald Settle Birth ...
Marketwire (press release)
They stated that the mother of the infant plaintiff had delivered several babies via vaginal birth in the past without incident, but that she reported to the defendant hospital at 34 weeks of gestation after experiencing severe labor pains and some ...

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Start From Seed to pre-screen documentary, proceeds go to nonprofit
Mountain Xpress
Their statistics include: 0 percent rate of cesarean birth for breech babies, a 96.8 percent rate of VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean), 0 percent maternal mortality and morbidity, and 1.7 percent neonatal mortality rate (compared to a range of 9.5 ...

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WPTV
C-section reductions? Doctors, moms being urged to not deliver babies by ...
WPTV
However, a small Swedish study published last year noted that women with a fear of childbirth were nearly twice as likely to have a C-section as those with no such fears, even after special counseling. More than 90 percent of women who've had a C ...

Omaha World-Herald
Pros vs. cons: vaginal birth after C-section
Omaha World-Herald
Dr. Rebecca Jacobi is a UNMC graduate and OB/GYN and surgeon at the Methodist Physicians Clinic Women's Center. She blogs once a month. Recent reports on C-section rates have lead to more conversations about VBAC (Vaginal Birth After C-section) ...

NewsNet5.com
Doctors, moms being urged to not deliver babies by C-section
NewsNet5.com
However, a small Swedish study published last year noted that women with a fear of childbirth were nearly twice as likely to have a C-section as those with no such fears, even after special counseling. More than 90 percent of women who've had a C ...

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WRTV Indianapolis
Doctors, moms being urged to not deliver babies by C-section
WRTV Indianapolis
However, a small Swedish study published last year noted that women with a fear of childbirth were nearly twice as likely to have a C-section as those with no such fears, even after special counseling. More than 90 percent of women who've had a C ...

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Start From Seed to pre-screen documentary, proceeds go to nonprofit
Mountain Xpress
Their statistics include: 0 percent rate of cesarean birth for breech babies, a 96.8 percent rate of VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean), 0 percent maternal mortality and morbidity, and 1.7 percent neonatal mortality rate (compared to a range of 9.5 ...

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Where do allergies come from?
Myjoyonline.com
Babies who are born via C-section have a different microbiome in their gastrointestinal tract, Johnson said. A microbiome is what scientists use to ... babies are sterile, Johnson explained. When they go through the birth canal, they get exposed to the ...

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fox8.com
Where do Allergies Come From?
fox8.com
Babies who are born via C-section have a different microbiome in their gastrointestinal tract, Johnson said. A microbiome is what scientists use to ... babies are sterile, Johnson explained. When they go through the birth canal, they get exposed to the ...

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