Media reports this past week have hyped a recent study claiming that induction of labor may actually reduce the need for cesarean. These findings appear to contradict previous research and generally held opinion. However, these reports have underplayed and under-reported the substantial caveats offered by the researchers about their findings. Although the authors do report…
This new (hopefully) weekly feature will highlight blog posts from the previous week (or so) that are relevant to cesaren prevention, recovery, and VBAC. If you would like to nominate a blog post to be featured here, email me at blog@ican-online.org. Gloria LeMay – “A Proven Method for Reducing the Cesarean Rate”: Gloria reviews a…
ICAN President Desirre Andrews was interviewed this morning on KPFT out of Houston, TX during the Whole Mother show. You can listen here.
A beautiful birth story is making the rounds online. What makes this particular story so inspiring is the fact that it shouldn’t have happened, at least not by current obstetric practice standards. Annmarie Schulte gave birth to her first three children by cesarean, a fact that should have landed her square in the OR for…
Bringing ICAN’s 25-year-plus tradition of support and education in the mother-to-mother and sister-to-sister model into the internet age, we have invited passionate blogging women to join us around our virtual circle of women. We hope to introduce you to new voices that you have not heard before, and also to respected voices that will already…
