ICAN chapter leaders Allison Denenberg and Barbara Stratton, along with president Desirre Andrews, were featured in a Newsweek article yesterday on VBAC. The article asks the question: if the evidence for VBAC safety is so clear, why aren’t doctors supporting it? VBAC advocates hope that health-care reform, with its emphasis on evidence-based medicine, might help…
An article in today’s New York Times discusses the report released yesterday by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) on the continued rise in cesareans. The article quotes Dr. George A. Macones: The continuing rise “is not going to be good for anybody,” said Dr. George A. Macones, the chairman of obstetrics and gynecology…
For Immediate Release Cesarean Rate Jumps to Record High: Up 53% Since 1996 More Women Facing Surgical Delivery; All Ages and Ethnic Groups Affected Redondo Beach, CA, March 23, 2010 – The National Center for Health Statistics reports that the cesarean rate in 2007 is the highest ever reported in the U.S., with a rate…
We’ve blogged before on current insurance companies’ practice of denying individual health insurance coverage to women with previous cesarean surgery. Last October, ICAN mama Peggy Robertson, accompanied by ICAN’s advocacy director Gretchen Humphries, testified on Capitol Hill about her own experience with this discriminatory practice in Colorado. Whatever your political persuasion, last night’s passage by…
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. A must-read this week: Momotics has posted results of the Post- Cesarean Feelings Survey. Read an overview of…
