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
Three out of four of this week’s best blogs follow a theme of patient autonomy. Great stuff! Enjoy.
Birth Sense [...]
Archive of posts tagged birth stories
Best of the Birth Blogs – Week Ending January 24th
24 January 2010, 3:37 pm
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Tagged autonomy, best of, birth stories, labor, research, rights
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Baby Says: Better the Car than the OR!
29 December 2009, 3:40 pm
The UPI reports of a baby born in a car on the shoulder of an Illinois highway today:
An Illinois woman says she and her newborn are doing well after the woman’s boyfriend helped deliver the baby inside a car along Interstate 72.
And…
Holeman said she and her boyfriend, 24-year-old Justin Howell, were driving towards Springfield when [...]
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Tagged birth stories, cesarean, media, vbac
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Joy Szabo: Don’t Roll Over and Take it
18 December 2009, 9:22 pm
By now you’ve probably heard that Joy Szabo had her baby by VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean). You can read about her fight for VBAC here. She graciously agreed to answer a few questions for us about her experience. Congratulations, Joy!
ICAN Blog: You received a fair amount of media attention for your fight to VBAC. [...]
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Tagged advocacy, birth stories, vbac, vbacban
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Best of the Birth Blogs – Week Ending December 6th
6 December 2009, 9:47 pm
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
Patti Ramos – Detached: Perhaps the most heart-wrenching and amazing photo of the cesarean experience I’ve seen to-date.
Science & [...]
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Tagged art, best of, birth stories, cesarean, humor, maternity care, vbac
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Best of the Birth Blogs – Week Ending November 29
29 November 2009, 9:47 pm
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
VBAC Facts – Finding VBAC Statistics for Your Hospital and State: Jen responds to one reader with tips on [...]
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Tagged best of, birth stories, c-section, cesarean, statistics, vbac
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Interview with Lindsey Meehleis: My Journey to VBAC
19 November 2009, 11:35 am
Many in the blogosphere are familiar with Lindsay Meehelis’ beautiful video about her VBAC journey. Lindsey recently sent her video to ICAN saying, “I am a HUGE supporter of ICAN and believe that it was a great resource for helping me achieve my VBAC that I recently had. I have made a video about my [...]
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Tagged birth stories, c-section, cesarean, vbac, video
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Unplanned VBAC assisted by two-year-old
18 November 2009, 6:23 pm
ACOG may want to revise its VBAC guidelines after reading this heartwarming story of a mother who, despite being scheduled for her fourth c-section gave birth safely at home with the help of her toddler. No surgeon or anesthesiologist were in sight.
The 2-year-old was calm.
“I laid on the couch and he went and got a [...]
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Tagged birth stories, c-section, cesarean, press, vbac
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Best of the Birth Blogs: Week Ending November 8th
8 November 2009, 8:57 pm
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
Keyboard Revolutionary – How Does Birth Impact a Mother? By reflecting on her own birth experiences, Jill discusses how [...]
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Best of the Birth Blogs – Week Ending October 11th
11 October 2009, 5:30 pm
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
Science & Sensibility – Healthy Birth Blog Carnival: Let Labor Begin on Its Own: ICAN’s very own President Desiree [...]
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Best of the Birth Blogs – Week Ending October 4th
4 October 2009, 5:43 pm
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
ICAN – Mother-sized Activism:Page Hospital VBAC Ban: We won’t toot our own horn too often here, but several bloggers [...]
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