Posted in Birth Stories, Home-Birth, Hypnobabies, ICAN, Midwives, Natural Birth, VBAC on June 23, 2008 | No Comments »
is posted on the Empowering Birth Blog.
It was really enjoyable to read! Go visit and enjoy!
Posted in Birth, Birth Stories, Cesarean, Doula, ICAN, Natural Birth, VBAC, tagged HypnoBirthing, water-birth on June 20, 2008 | No Comments »
Great VBAC HypnoBirthing Story A hospital had it’s first waterbirth and it happened to be a VBAC mom!
Posted in Birth, Cesarean, Doula, ICAN, tagged doula-study on June 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There is a new study of the benefits of doulas out.
It has some pretty impressive results.
Of interest to me regarding cesareans:
Mom’s with doula’s had a 13.4% cesarean rate vs 25% of moms without doulas.
Mom’s who were induced also had a lower cesarean rate than those without a doula.
Mom’s induced with doula 12.5% cesarean rate vs [...]
Posted in Birth, Cesarean, Childbirth Education, ICAN, tagged big baby on May 31, 2008 | No Comments »
Or any mom being told her baby is “too big” The big baby card is one that really bugs me! I have a whole long page on my website about it.
Here is a link to a great video of a mom who had a vaginal birth, then was scared into a cesarean for a suspected [...]
Posted in Birth, Birth Stories, Cesarean, Childbirth Education, Doula, Hospital-Birth, ICAN, Pregnancy, VBAC, tagged fight-for-vbac on May 23, 2008 | No Comments »
This mom had to fight for her right to birth vaginally in her hospital. It is unfortunate that she had to litterally fight, but I am so proud of her. It shows how some care providers try to emotionally manipulate their patients to do what they want. It also shows how in the end it is [...]
Posted in Birth, Cesarean, Childbirth Education, ICAN, tagged Cesarean, ICAN, cesarean-prevention on May 20, 2008 | No Comments »
There are certainly times when a cesarean is life saving. But too many times in today’s births many cesareans are not medically necessary. Why does this matter? Isn’t all that is important is a healthy baby and mom?
This video touches on the risks of cesarean for mom and baby. It also gives great ideas on [...]
Posted in Birth, Birth Stories, Cesarean, Doula, Hospital-Birth, ICAN, tagged Cesarean, ICAN, sisterhood-of-the-scar, CAM, Cesarean-Awareness-Month, International-Cesarean-Awareness-Month, Awareness, cesarean-birth-stories, cesarean-birth-deliveries, cesarean-section-deliveries, cesarean-section-delivery, cesarean-scar, c-section-irth, c-section-delivery, c-section-recovery, c-section-births, c-section-preparation on April 5, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The Trust Birth Conference was very interesting. It was fun talking with other doulas there. We had one group discussion and someone talked about how our work as Doula’s can be effected by our births.
It made me think of my 2 cesareans I have attended as a doula.
I always was nervous how supporting a mom [...]
Posted in Birth, Birth Stories, Cesarean, Doula, Hospital-Birth, ICAN, tagged Cesarean, ICAN, induction, epidural, induced, CAM, Cesarean-Awareness-Month, International-Cesarean-Awareness-Month, Awareness, cesarean-birth-stories, cesarean-birth-deliveries, cesarean-section-deliveries, cesarean-section-delivery, cesarean-scar, c-section-irth, c-section-delivery, c-section-recovery, c-section-births, c-section-preparation on April 2, 2008 | No Comments »
The end of 2007 I attended two very long births back to back. Out of 63 hours I was gone 57. I was home for a few hours of sleep between them. I missed my 2 year olds birthday and honestly I don’t know where my boys were during that whole time. I wasn’t worried, [...]
Posted in Birth, Cesarean, ICAN, VBAC, tagged Awareness, c-section-births, c-section-delivery, c-section-irth, c-section-preparation, c-section-recovery, CAM, Cesarean, Cesarean-Awareness-Month, cesarean-birth-deliveries, cesarean-birth-stories, cesarean-scar, cesarean-section-deliveries, cesarean-section-delivery, ICAN, International-Cesarean-Awareness-Month on April 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I have had a cesarean with my first baby. It was a medical emergency and I feel that it saved my baby’s life. Baby was not OK and needed to be born NOW. I am grateful for living today when this medical intervention is possible.
I have had 2 VBACs. They were normal births, baby was [...]
Posted in Birth, Birth Stories, Childbirth Education, Doula, Home-Birth, Hospital-Birth, Hypnobabies, Hypnosis and Childbirth, ICAN, Midwives, Natural Birth, Pregnancy, VBAC, tagged HBAC, intuition-birth, VBAC on March 21, 2008 | 15 Comments »
I have had 2 moms who were going to have their babies at any time for the past few weeks. They also happen to be good friends, so I really wanted to make sure I made it to both births!
Birth 1 - hospital birth
S. was having her 4th baby. She had never gone past 37 weeks [...]
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