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Category Archives: Organizations
ACOG Issues NEW VBAC Guidelines
Here’s a link until I can get my hands on the whole set of guidelines…: ACOG Issue Less Restrictive VBAC Guidelines ICAN Responds to ACOG VBAC Guidelines
Posted in American College of Obstetrics & Gynecology (ACOG), VBAC
Tagged VBAC, vbac guidelines
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How do you find the right childbirth class?
This is a guest post from Doogie. She’s newly pregnant with her first and has agreed to give us some insights on what’s she’s thinking and how she’s finding info in her pregnancy. Just so we get this out of … Continue reading
Happy Cesarean Awareness Month
April is Cesarean Awareness Month! I am here to talk about my experience today, and why cesarean awareness is such an important subject for women to get involved with, even if you have not had one! When I was 22 … Continue reading
C-Section Births Up 53% since 1996
Today the NCHS released a briefing on the c-section trends from 1996-2007. Here you can see that after a brief dip in the early 1990s, the c-section rate is skyrocketing – 53% increase in the national cesarean rates in these … Continue reading
VBAC is Vital
Vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) is a crucial option in maternity care today. I see VBAC as one of the key ways for us to attack the growing maternal mortality. Many people do not think about the cesarean rate as … Continue reading
Posted in International Cesarean Awareness Network (ICAN), VBAC
Tagged blog carnival, cesarean rates, VBAC
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Healthy Eating During Your Pregnancy
I can certainly say, when I got pregnant with my oldest, I thought pregnancy was a free ticket to pig out and live on junk food, but I quickly learned through my reading, that is not the case at all!! … Continue reading
Posted in General, March of Dimes, Pregnancy, Prenatal Care
Tagged diet, eating, March of Dimes, nutrition, Pregnancy
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Cesarean Recovery
With the number of cesarean sections increasing in our country annually, many women do not really understand or know that recovering from a cesarean section is much different from a vaginal delivery. After my first cesarean section I learned this the hard way and wish I had a couple tips on making recovery more bearable. But we often forget that the recovery after a cesarean birth is not just physical, but it is also emotional for a large portion of cesarean section mothers. Continue reading
The Duggar Family
I would like to extend my well wishes and thoughts to the Duggar Family though this difficult period of their lives after welcoming their 19th baby, Josie Brooklyn Duggar yesterday, December 11th 2009 via emergency cesarean section for Pre-E after … Continue reading
Posted in Celebrities, Cesarean Section, DONA International, General, Media, Prematurity
Tagged Labor and Birth, Premature, reality tv, The Duggars
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