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Are C-Sections More Civilized?

From an article titled “No love for labor” found at www.DeccanHerald.com “More and more women are opting for fast-track deliveries through elective C-section. Rising affluence, limited time and desire for pain-free birthing has spurred this unhealthy trend. In keeping with Delhi’s dizzying urban growth trajectory, its would-be-moms are also rooting for fast-track deliveries. In fact, [...]

Ulterior Motives of Your OB-GYN

Did Your Doctor Recommend a C-Section Just So He Could Get Home for Dinner? Learn About Unnecessary Medical Interventions in Labor and How to Avoid Them Source www.PRweb.com Moms: Do you really need that C-section or epidural? Registered nurse and midwife Breck Hawk, author of “Hey! Who’s Having This Baby Anyway?” reveals why these procedures [...]

Dangers of Elective C-Section

Source: www.PRWeb.com Ponte Vedra Beach, FL (PRWEB) — The Coalition for Improving Maternity Services (CIMS) is eagerly anticipating the results of the upcoming National Institutes of Health (NIH) State-of-the Science Conference: Cesarean Delivery on Maternal Request, March 27-29, 2006 and trusts that the NIH will provide much needed guidelines and recommendations for decreasing cesarean surgeries [...]

Why Babies Prefer Natural Childbirth

Childbirth is a life changing event which can be both exhilarating and draining, the greatest experience of one’s life or the worst. Childbirth carries tremendous dogma, old wives tales, traditions, and controversy. Adults have their own rhyme and reason for birth choices. Doctors and midwives make choices for convenience, scheduling, to avoid lawsuits or for [...]

Studies Show Homebirth Is Safe, Episiotomy Is Harmful

Source: www.PRWeb.com (PRWEB) A study in the June 18th issue (2005) of the British Medical Journal found that “planned home births for low risk women in the United States are associated with similar safety and less medical intervention as low risk hospital births.” With prospective data from more than 5000 births attended in 2000 by [...]

Increased Risk of Asthma from Cesareans

A recent study from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, found that C-section babies are 40-60% more likely to suffer from asthma as children. The study is based on data from a whopping 1.7 million births and compared the results of spontaneous vaginal births and cesarean babies through age 18. Emergency cesareans posed the highest [...]

C Section Video

Here is a nice short c section video to add to our childbirth video library. It is very clear from this c section video that a cesarean section is not simple or painless. It is major abdominal surgery. Just because the mother is anesthetized, does not mean she will not suffer after the surgery. Update: [...]

Prevent Cesarean Surgery Video, Winner Birth Matters Contest

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZy0JPtubiQ The following movie is the winner of the Birth Matters Video contest. Here is what the celebrity judges had to say about it: * “Such great myth-busting and important information for all women, I loved your use of natural scenes. I’d love to see this video getting lots of airplay in the public arena.” [...]

Cesareans and Prematurity

The rate of premature birth has been increasing for 2 decades and researchers are now blaming part of the increase on unnecessary cesarean sections. The cesareans are accountable for almost all of the of the increase in “late preemies”, meaning birth during weeks 34-37, when the brain and lungs are not fully formed, but the [...]

Video: Another Cesarean Section

Today is the last day of April and the last day of cesarean awareness month. Yes, cesareans are valuable in a very small number of instances such as placenta previa but those cases account for somewhere in the neighborhood of 1-5% of births. Most cesareans are simply lining the wallets of obstetricians while allowing them [...]

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