Best of the Birth Blogs – Week Ending September 6th
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 Stand and Deliver – Interview with Dr. Stuart Fischbein: We linked to Dr. Fischbein’s blog on August 23rd. […]
Best of the Birth Blogs – Week Ending August 30th
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 Gloria Lemay – Eating During the Birth Process: Many in the blogosphere commented this week on ACOG’s new […]
Guest Blogger: Spinning VBAC Babies
Bringing ICAN’s 25-year-plus tradition of support and education in the mother-to-mother and sister-to-sister model into the internet age, we have invited passionate bloggers to join us around our virtual circle of women. We hope to introduce you to new voices that you have not heard before, and also to respected voices that will already be […]
Best of the Birth Blogs – Week Ending August 23rd
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 Henci Goer (Science & Sensibility) – ACOG’s 2009 Induction Guidelines: Spin Doctoring Misoprostol (Cytotec): Award-winning medical writer Goer […]
Informative Birth Videos
Three new, thought-provoking videos related to childbirth are available online. This video compares the cesarean experience with VBAC for both mom and baby: Cesarean vs. VBAC: A Dramatic Difference from Alexandra Orchard on Vimeo. The video below discusses infant mortality, especially among communities of color, and highlights the role of reducing unnecessary obstetrical interventions in […]
Less Cesareans with Induction of Labor? Read the Fine Print!
Media reports this past week have hyped a recent study claiming that induction of labor may actually reduce the need for cesarean. These findings appear to contradict previous research and generally held opinion. However, these reports have underplayed and under-reported the substantial caveats offered by the researchers about their findings. Although the authors do report […]
Best of the Birth Blogs – Week Ending August 16th
This new (hopefully) weekly feature will highlight blog posts from the previous week (or so) that are relevant to cesaren prevention, recovery, and VBAC. If you would like to nominate a blog post to be featured here, email me at blog@ican-online.org. Gloria LeMay – “A Proven Method for Reducing the Cesarean Rate”: Gloria reviews a […]
ICAN President on the Radio
ICAN President Desirre Andrews was interviewed this morning on KPFT out of Houston, TX during the Whole Mother show. You can listen here.
We Freakin' Did it: A Freewheelin' VBA3C in Milwaukee
A beautiful birth story is making the rounds online. What makes this particular story so inspiring is the fact that it shouldn’t have happened, at least not by current obstetric practice standards. Annmarie Schulte gave birth to her first three children by cesarean, a fact that should have landed her square in the OR for […]
Guest Blogger: Is a Woman in Labor a “Person”? New Assaults on Pregnant Women’s Civil Rights in NJ Case
Bringing ICAN’s 25-year-plus tradition of support and education in the mother-to-mother and sister-to-sister model into the internet age, we have invited passionate blogging women to join us around our virtual circle of women. We hope to introduce you to new voices that you have not heard before, and also to respected voices that will already […]
Ricki Lake's New Celebrity Birth Series
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Amy Slotnick My Best Birth Amy@mybestbirth.com (646) 335-2684 RICKI LAKE LAUNCHES EXCLUSIVE CELEBRITY WEBISODE SERIES ON MYBESTBIRTH.COM Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington, Laila Ali, Melissa Joan Hart, Alyson Hannigan are among featured celebrities sharing personal birth stories as part of the series Los Angeles, June 25, 2009–Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein, the […]
What I Love About My Cesarean
Jasmine Ojala is a mother of two children and a member of ICAN of the Twin Cities. In this post she shares her reflections on what she’s learned from her births. I have learned and grown so much through my two birth experiences. I had a traumatic cesarean three and a half years ago and […]
