The National Institutes of Health VBAC conference is stirring up coverage all over the internet (including our own blog carnival) and in the press. On Sunday, the New York Times published an astounding story about cesareans and VBACs at a Navajo hospital in Arizona.
As Washington debates health care, this small hospital in a dusty desert [...]
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Cutting Less: VBAC Navajo Style
Rachael Ray’s Dr. Ian: VBAC Should be a Woman’s Choice
In case you missed it, talk show host Rachel Ray featured Joy Szabo’s fight for VBAC on her show yesterday. In a segment called “Going Too Far?” Medical Edition, Dr. Ian and Rachel discussed VBAC bans an the rights of women to choose whether or not they have a cesarean. See the video here:
More Than Just A Healthy Baby
Yesterday afternoon, Gina Crosley-Corcoran of ICAN of DuPage, and Danielle Elwood from ICAN of Connecticut sat down with Karen Angstadt on her weekly radio show A Labor of Love to talk about birth, cesarean sections, and how a healthy baby isn’t all that matters.
The show provides a multifaceted exploration of birth trauma, illustrated by Karen’s [...]
Mother-sized Activism: Tell NBC What You Think!
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 [...]
Best of the Birth Blogs – Week Ending February 7th
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
The blogosphere was full of reactions this week to the Today Show’s “Live in the OR” segment showing an [...]
ICAN Responds: “Today Show” Spreads Misinformation
In response to the Today’s Show “Live in the OR” segment that showed a scheduled cesarean in progress , ICAN is appalled by the lighthearted tone and lack of in-depth information regarding cesareans. Dr. Nancy Snyderman downplayed the risks of cesareans while adding to the myth that suspected fetal macrosomia and being postdates are [...]
Ohio Hospitals: Too Many Cesareans for Low-Risk Moms?
ICAN of Greater Cleveland chapter leader Pam Kolanz was featured in an article last week about Ohio’s rising c-section rate. The Plain Dealer reports:
New data on cesarean births in Ohio points to a troubling trend of unnecessary surgeries.
The state’s new hospital-performance Web site, Ohio Hospital Compare, shows that more than one-quarter of first-time mothers considered [...]
Best of the Birth Blogs – Week Ending January 17, 2010
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
Birthing Beautiful Ideas – Sex After C-Section: The Advice that Women Do (and Don’t) Need: After much controversy in [...]
