International Cesarean Awareness Network

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The Term 'Birth Rape' Hurts Both Moms And Sexual Assault Survivors
BlissTree
It often involves doctors or midwives shoving fingers or other medical instruments into a woman's vagina during childbirth without any warning, and sometimes even continuing after the woman screams out in pain or loudly objects. The term has continued ...

Fundraiser forum and filmscreening for Start from Seed will focus on maternal ...
Mountain Xpress
Their statistics include: 0% rate of cesarean birth for breech babies, a 96.8% rate of VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean), 0% maternal mortality and morbidity, and 1.7% neonatal mortality rate (compared to a range of 9.5% in 1970 to 7% in 2010 in the US).

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Frederick News Post (subscription)
Mom wants to make giving birth a better experience for women
Frederick News Post (subscription)
... emotional changes that women experience as a pregnancy progresses. Birth Journey classes are for pregnant couples, and the VBAC workshop is for women hoping to have a vaginal birth after giving birth by C-section. The Frederick classes begin April 7.

Recovering from my second labor with the end result of 2 c-sections...ughh
Mothering
I was visiting the hospital every day or every other day for Non Stress Tests, Amniotic Fluid for a full week after my midwife first suggested I consider an induction or c-section for low amniotic fluid. I had low fluid with my first and I had no ...

Beyond 40 weeks
Mothering
If your SIL wore high heels and worked a desk job for ten years before she had babies, then I'd totally buy that as a reason why a vaginal birth wasn't so possible for her. (I might have done that too, a little bit, and it would explain why it was so ...

WTSP 10 News
Mom squad March 11th, 2013
WTSP 10 News
She had four c-sections, but for the fifth baby she wanted a VBAC (vaginal birth after c-section). Her doctor is a well-established veteran of obstetrics and gynecology and only a handful of doctors in the nation who is doubly certified in genetics ...

Expecting Twins? It's Your Call
dailyRx
Meanwhile, 60 percent of the women who planned a vaginal birth gave birth to at least one of the twins vaginally. Four percent of the women who planned a vaginal birth delivered their second twin by a C-section after vaginally delivering their first twin.

If this is your third baby...
Mothering
I was so attached to having a great birth experience the first two times and was let down. This time, I don't care all that much how the baby gets here as long as we're both healthy. I mean, of course I prefer vaginal over cesarean and it would be nice ...

Cadillac News (subscription)
Nurse shares what it is like to run Mercy's Family Birth Center
Cadillac News (subscription)
Then, women could expect to be hospitalized three to five days after delivery if there were no complications, Barnes recalls. Now, it's between 36 and 48 hours following a vaginal birth and 48 to 72 hours after a Cesarean section. "Women are up and ...

Opposing Views
Doctor Threatens to Call Police on Lisa Epsteen After She Delays C-Section
Opposing Views
When she was in the process of choosing a doctor shortly after learning of her pregnancy, she joined several advocacy groups for women wishing to attempt a vaginal birth after caesarean. That's how she found Yankowitz, who decided to take on her high ...
Florida mom, 35, is pregnant with her fifth babyDaily Mail

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Differences in C-section rates raise questions
The News Journal (blog)
And once a woman has one C-section, she's more likely to have another in future pregnancies, even if she meets the criteria for a vaginal birth after a C-section, also known as a VBAC. Less than 2 percent of all births in Delaware are VBAC, according ...

Trial of labor after C-section uncommon, but often successful
Ob.Gyn. News Digital Network
SAN FRANCISCO – Few women in a general U.S. obstetric practice are given a trial of labor after a previous cesarean birth, but the majority do have a vaginal delivery, a study has shown. A team led by Dr. Kirsten Salmeen, a fellow in maternal-fetal ...

Ontario hospitals lagging behind other provinces, report finds
Toronto Star
Provincial hospitals are reporting too many caesarean sections, too few vaginal births after C-sections, frequent readmissions for patients 19 years and younger, elevated readmission rates for surgical patients and a high number of medical and surgical ...

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Ontario hospitals lag other provinces in key clinical areas, says performance ...
Toronto Star
Provincial hospitals are reporting too many caesarean sections, too few vaginal births after C-sections, frequent readmissions for patients 19 years and younger, elevated readmission rates for surgical patients and a high number of medical and surgical ...

Daily Mail
Florida mom, 35, is pregnant with her fifth baby
Daily Mail
In the 1990s, a woman named Laura Pemberton wanted to have a Vaginal Birth After Caesarean (VBAC) and wanted to have the child at home with the aid of a midwife. Because she became dehydrated, Ms Pemberton went to a local hospital to get treated ...

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USF Obstetrician Threatens to Call Police If Patient Doesn't Report for C-Section
The Ledger
The stay-at-home, homeschooling mother sought help from advocacy groups that she had joined for women wishing to attempt a vaginal birth after caesarean, called a VBAC. That's what led her to Yankowitz, who had approved taking on her high-risk case ...

Midwives deliver quality care for women and babies; value for Ontarians
NorthumberlandView.ca
One of the ways midwives achieve low c-section rates is by supporting women who are planning a vaginal birth after c-section, also known as VBAC. Not that long ago in maternity care, the saying was "once a caesarean, always a caesarean", but research ...

Judah Samuel's birth story (c-section)
Mothering
I was visiting the hospital every day or every other day for Non Stress Tests, Amniotic Fluid for a full week after my midwife first suggested I consider an induction or c-section for low amniotic fluid. I had low fluid with my first and I had no ...

Tampabay.com
USF obstetrician threatens to call police if patient doesn't report for c-section
Tampabay.com
The stay-at-home, homeschooling mother sought help from advocacy groups that she had joined for women wishing to attempt a vaginal birth after caesarean, called a VBAC. That's what led her to Yankowitz, who had approved taking on her high-risk case ...

Canada NewsWire (press release)
Midwives deliver quality care for women and babies; value for Ontarians
Canada NewsWire (press release)
One of the ways midwives achieve low c-section rates is by supporting women who are planning a vaginal birth after c-section, also known as VBAC. Not that long ago in maternity care, the saying was "once a caesarean, always a caesarean", but research ...

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