This birth story, in honor of Cesarean Awareness Month (CAM), comes from Ilka Szilagyi. To have your birth story posted on this blog, email it to: blog@ican-online.org
Well, my story is a tale of complicated things.
First of all, you have to know that midwifery in Hungary is borderline illegal, since there were no laws around it [...]
Archive of posts tagged trauma
Cesarean Images – How Do You Feel About Them?
At our monthly ICAN of the Twin Cities meeting this past Monday, we watched three breech birth videos: a vaginal breech at home, a vaginal breech in the hospital, and a cesarean for breech. After the videos, we talked about how difficult it is for some of us to watch cesarean videos because it looks [...]
Best of the Birth Blogs – August 9-22
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.
It’s summer and we’re a little slow around the blog lately…but there’s been plenty of good reading in the [...]
Best of the Birth Blogs – Week Ending May 16th
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.
I love to see creative expressions of birth and birth experiences. This week there were several: Birth Activist (and [...]
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 [...]
Best of the Birth Blogs: Week Ending October 18th
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 Daily Beast – The C-section Backlash: Danielle Friedman writes about Joy Szabo, who continues to garner national [...]
