Cesarean Prevention Video

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 [...]

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Birth and Faith Survey

I created a survey to look at if and how someone’s faith could effect their birth.  Please take a few minutes to fill it out!  It should only take about 5 minutes. 
 Click Here to take survey
If you took a Hypnosis for Childbirth course and want to do a survey regarding your experiences with that, I [...]

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Emotional Aspects of Being a Doula

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 [...]

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Long Back to Back Births

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, [...]

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April is Cesarean Awareness Month

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 [...]

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Why is she choosing a Cesarean?

 This post is NOT about medically necessary cesareans, there are certainly times when choosing a cesarean is obviously the best choice, when the life of mom or baby is at stake.  This is also is a total of 4 posts that go together, scroll down my blog for the rest!
It is sometimes frustrating to see moms [...]

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Talking to a mom planning a cesarean

 When I find out someone is planning a cesarean, I start by asking, “Why?”  It helps that I can say, “I had a cesarean with my first baby.  Why are you having one?” 
Then I listen to their reasons.  I ask how they feel about having a cesarean.  Some moms feel really good about it, they [...]

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Is Education Enough?

This post is somewhat prompted by reading a blog entry about how it bugs this mom when people say educate yourself about birth, because she educated herself but still didn’t have a good birth experience.  The birth environment today is not always accepting of normal births, so it can be a challenge to have one.  [...]

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Support for VBACs from Australia…

This is an interesting article from the Australian birth community.  It discusses how the cesarean rate is too high and the problems that is causing for women and for the medical world there.  I hope America figures this out sooner than later!
If you are a mom trying to GIP (gestate in peace) you don’t need [...]

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A great letter to Christina Aguilera

I don’t know why she has signed up for an elective cesarean.  She may have a valid medical reason…. such as placenta previa.  Maybe her baby is breech, though that does not have to equal a cesarean. 
Since most cesareans performed in America today are not medically necessary I am guessing that it is possible her [...]

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