Birth Center VBAC Ban in Florida
Laura Gilkey of Born in Sarasota sends word of pressing VBAC news in Forida: On Wednesday, March 24th, the State of Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration will move to permanently ban Vaginal Birth after Cesarean (VBAC) in Florida birth centers. Currently, women who choose to give birth normally after surgery must do so in […]
Call for Birth Stories!
In honor of Cesarean Awareness Month (CAM) this April, I would like to post one birth story per day on the blog. To do this, I need your help! Would you consider sending your birth story to blog@ican-online.org for posting next month? Your birth story can be of any type, as long as it relates […]
Best of the Birth Blogs – Week Ending March 14th
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 […]
Post-Cesarean Feelings Survey: Share Your Experience!
Danielle Elwood, ICAN Chapter Leader in Connecticut, Birth Activist, and Blogger has partnered with the website Healthy Baby Network to help survey cesarean section mothers to look at the opinions, education, and experiences of every day mothers who have given birth via cesarean section at least once. This survey looks at many different aspects of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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:
Top Ten Reasons to Volunteer on the 2011 ICAN Conference Committee
By Maureen Finneran Hetrick ICAN Conference Director Have you been wondering what you can do to help ICAN? Do you want to make a difference in the lives of women? Consider joining the ICAN 2011 Conference Committee! You can help make next year’s conference the best ever! Top Ten Reasons to Volunteer on the 2011 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Elective cesarean increases risk for infant breathing problems
Transient tachypnea of the newborn (TTN) is a common cause of respiratory problems in infants. A recent study published in Pediatrics finds that babies born by cesarean without experiencing labor are at substantially greater risk for developing TTN. The researchers examined the incidence of TTN among babies who experienced labor and those who did not. […]
