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… Read More
Category: Birth Tags: Awareness, birth-and-faith, birth-survey, 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
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… Read More
Category: Birth, Birth Stories, Cesarean, Doula Tags: 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, sisterhood-of-the-scar
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… Read More
Category: Birth, Birth Stories, Cesarean, Doula Tags: 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, epidural, ICAN, induced, induction, International-Cesarean-Awareness-Month
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… Read More
Category: Birth, Cesarean, VBAC Tags: 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
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… Read More
Category: Birth, Cesarean, Childbirth Education Tags: 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, choosing a cesarean, ICAN, International-Cesarean-Awareness-Month, why moms choose a cesarean
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… Read More
Category: Birth, Cesarean, Childbirth Education, VBAC Tags: Awareness, breech, 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, choosing a cesarean, ICAN, International-Cesarean-Awareness-Month, supporting moms, talking to moms about cesareans
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… Read More
Category: Birth, Birth Care Provider, Cesarean, Childbirth Education, Choose Wisely, Doula, Pregnancy Tags: 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, choices during birth, ICAN, International-Cesarean-Awareness-Month
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