Have you contacted your local hospitals and OB providers yet to ask about their practices in light of ACOG’s new VBAC recommendations? Stephanie Windgardner in Sioux City, Iowa has. She shares: My [OB] office previously stated the ACOG guidelines as why I could not try for a VBAC with my next child. Since the guidelines…
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. Of course, the birth blogs lit up this week with news of new VBAC guidelines. Birthing Beautiful Ideas…
While ACOG’s new Practice Bulletin with VBAC guidelines is a step in the right direction, there is still a lot of work to be done to reverse the over decade long trend of rising cesarean rates and declining VBAC support. Here are some things you can do to help facilitate change. Contact facilities and care…
This mother-size activism task takes less than 2 two minutes and can be done from the comfort of your computer chair! As we’ve blogged previously, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is planning a conference called Vaginal Birth After Cesarean: New Insights. ICAN President Desirre Andrews says: The weeks are counting down to the NIH…
Welcome, birth advocates, to our third installment of the “Mother-Sized Activism” feature on this blog, where we take an issue and put the relevant information together so you can grab a few minutes out of your day and help make a real difference. So many of us can get overwhelmed thinking of all the work…
