International Cesarean Awareness Network

Handling the Anxiety of a New Baby
dailyRx
The anxiety was more common among first-time moms and those who had cesarean sections. Postpartum anxiety was also ... who had cesarean sections. The rate of anxiety among women who had C-sections was 22 percent, compared to 15 percent among women who ...

Hagerstown birth resource center officials pleased with first babies fair
The Herald-Mail
Packe gave birth to her first child, daughter Ruby, who turns 1 later this month, via Caesarean section, she said. One of the things Packe said she wanted to learn more about Sunday was vaginal births after Caesarean section. Her second child is due ...

Vaginal Birth after Myomectomy (fibroid removal)?
Mothering
So far, I've read that after a myomectomy, one must have a cesarean section because of the greater risk of rupture. However, I almost don't even want to have another child if I can't have a home birth. :/ Has anyone here ever had a natural birth after ...

Study: Most Moms Wait At Least Six Weeks Postpartum To Have Sex
Growing Your Baby
Additionally, mothers that had episiotomies or sutured tears, caesarean sections, and births assisted with forceps were more likely to wait longer than those that had non-complicated vaginal births. About 45% of women ... “The most important finding ...

Are Women Having Too Many C-Sections in the United States?
io9
Corry pointed us to a 2012 report by Amy Romano and Carol Sakala, "Vaginal or Cesarean Birth: What Is At Stake For Women And Babies?," in which the various risks are assessed, both for cesarean and vaginal births. In the report, the authors write ...

C-Section Rate 'Disturbing,' Birth Center Director Says
Patch.com
True, they are safer than use to be, but they are “nowhere near as safe for either person” as a vaginal birth, she said. According to Flynn, after a c-section mothers are more at risk of Placenta accreta during their following pregnancies, and babies ...

C-Section Rate 'Disturbing,' Birth Center Director Says
Patch.com
True, they are safer than use to be, but they are “nowhere near as safe for either person” as a vaginal birth, she said. According to Flynn, after a c-section mothers are more at risk of Placenta accreta during their following pregnancies, and babies ...

Time to stop the practice of defensive medicine
Iowa City Press Citizen
Very few Iowa hospitals offer a trial of labor after Cesarean, so once a woman has had that first Cesarean birth, “Once a Cesarean, always a Cesarean.” It's a fact that there is increased neonatal and maternal risk from Cesarean versus vaginal birth ...

C-Section Rate 'Disturbing', Says Birth Center Director
Patch.com
True, they are safer than use to be, but they are “nowhere near as safe for either person” as a vaginal birth, she said. According to Flynn, after a c-section mothers are more at risk of Placenta accreta during their following pregnancies, and babies ...

Best pregnancy books?
Mothering
My first birth, then, was an induced two day ordeal that ended in c-section, and I probably deserved it. I guess I was going in thinking baby just comes out, or doctor just takes baby out... Wiser, and obsessed over vaginal birth after cesarian during ...

Zofran, Pregnancy Nausea Drug, Won't Harm Fetus (STUDY)
Huffington Post
The new study of more than 600,000 pregnancies in Denmark found no evidence of major birth-related problems, so women should not be afraid to use Zofran if they need it, said Dr. Iffath Hoskins, a high-risk pregnancy specialist at NYU Langone Medical ...

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Sex After Baby: Most Women Wait More Than 6 Weeks After Giving Birth (STUDY)
Huffington Post
Generally, the women said they had engaged in some type of sexual contact before resuming vaginal sex, with 53 percent saying they had engaged in some type of sexual activity by 6 weeks after childbirth. Operations such as a Caesarean section, or the ...

Most New Mothers Skip Sex for at Least 6 Weeks After Childbirth
U.S. News & World Report
Women who had a cesarean section, a birth assisted with forceps or an episiotomy or sutured tear also were less likely to have resumed vaginal sex by six weeks after birth. The rates were 45 percent for those who had a C-section, 32 percent for those ...

Most New Mothers Skip Sex for at Least 6 Weeks After Childbirth
Health.com
Women who had a cesarean section, a birth assisted with forceps or an episiotomy or sutured tear also were less likely to have resumed vaginal sex by six weeks after birth. The rates were 45 percent for those who had a C-section, 32 percent for those ...

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Lancaster Newspapers
Bart birth-care center takes part in national study
Lancaster Newspapers
Regardless of where they gave birth, 93 percent of women had a spontaneous vaginal birth, 1 percent an assisted vaginal birth, and 6 percent a cesarean birth, the abstract states. Birth Care's ... Following graduation, she began working at Birth Care ...

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"Laborist" Hospitals Produce Results
dailyRx
Laborist hospitals also saw a higher percentage of women who went into labor and/or had a vaginal birth after having had a previous C-section than the percentage of women in as-needed hospitals. In the second study, led by Sindhu Srinivas, MD, of the ...

Stuff.co.nz
I feel like I 'failed'
Stuff.co.nz
So, again, two years later, when I found out I was pregnant with my third son, I decided to try for a VBA2C (vaginal birth after two caesarean sections). I found a midwife who was supportive, and luckily, my hospital had just changed their policy ...

Can't get over my c-sections
Mothering
After my c-section, my incision got infected. My OB ignored the golf ball sized lump on my incision as "scar tissue" and then when my incision broke open and weeped she said it was normal healing. I went to a wound care center for 8 months because I ...

The Epoch Times
Healing Your Body After Birth
The Epoch Times
If a cesarean section has occurred, the TVA will be in special need of rehabilitation. The pelvic floor muscles are usually traumatized from vaginal birth. A new mom must learn to naturally inhale deeply with her diaphragm, seemingly filling her belly ...

Delivery Options
LA Magazine
Those changes included decreasing the number of high-risk patients, increasing the number of cesarean deliveries, and refusing to perform vaginal births after cesareans, also known as VBACs (for women who have had a delivery via cesarean and don't ...