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.
Last week’s big event was the National Institutes of Health VBAC consensus meetings. Many in the blogosphere and the [...]
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Best of the Birth Blogs – Week Ending March 14th
National Institutes of Heath Releases Statement on VBAC
Access to VBAC is Limited by Non-Medical Factors and is Safe for Most Women
REDONDO BEACH, CA, March 11, 2010. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) finished the Conference on Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC) March 8th-10th, 2010, evaluating issues surrounding VBAC and seeking to quantify why VBAC rates have plummeted in the U.S. over the [...]
Cutting Less: VBAC Navajo Style
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 [...]
VBAC Blog Carnival: Why is VBAC a Vital Option?
As the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Consensus Development Conference on Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC) gets underway this morning, we bring you our first-ever ICAN Blog Carnival. We have invited bloggers to submit entries on the topic, “Why is VBAC a Vital Option?” and they have answered. Thanks to all the bloggers featured below [...]
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:
Best of the Birth Blogs – Week Ending February 28th
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
Hey birth bloggers! Don’t forget to submit an entry in our first-ever blog carnival. Details here. And now for [...]
Mother-sized Activism: Pre-order the NIH VBAC Consensus Statement
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 VBAC meetings March [...]
Announcing the ICAN VBAC Blog Carnival!
UPDATE:Read the VBAC Blog Carnival here!
In light of the upcoming NIH VBAC Meetings, the ICAN blog would like you to be heard in our first-ever blog carnival.The NIH Meetings, to be held in Bethesda, MD from March 8-10, will gather “invited experts” to present evidence on the safety and availability of VBAC in the United [...]
One Layer or Two: Much Ado About Something?
ICAN’s next webinar:
Confused by the controversy over single layer vs. double layer? You’re not alone. Whether you’re a mom worried about your own single layer closure, or a birth professional seeking more information, this online session is for you. You’ll learn what the research says about the differences between single layer and double layer closures, [...]
