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29 April 2010

April 2010 VBAC News

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Panel Urges New Look at Caesarean Guidelines
“A panel of medical experts on Wednesday recommended steps to reverse a trend that has dismayed many pregnant women: the increasing difficulty of finding doctors and hospitals that will let a woman try to give birth normally if she has had a Caesarean section in the past…”

Home births on rise
“…But others defend midwifery as a safe option for women and say Oklahoma’s growth in midwifery births is not unique.”

Weighing the risk and rewards of vaginal birth after a C-section
“She knew the statistics about vaginal birth after a C-section, that only about 60% to 80% who try for a VBAC actually have one. But she also knew that when the time came, she’d just have to decide for herself…”

Groups seek balance with births
“For many years, the thinking in the medical field held that “once a C-section, always a C-section. But then surgeons developed a new incision, the so-called bikini-line, for cesarean sections that opened the door for women who had delivered by cesarean to try to deliver vaginally in subsequent pregnancies, a so-called VBAC or vaginal birth after cesarean…”

Options shouldn’t be limited by a C-section
“After she had to undergo an emergency cesarean delivery with her first son nearly two years ago, Erin Sarauer remembers a difficult recovery featuring a long hospital stay and limitations on how much weight she could lift…”

Why vaginal birth after C-section is getting more attention
“I honestly thought I’d never be able to do it,” Winslet said in 2004 magazine interview about the birth of her son in New York. “It was an incredible birth. It laid all the ghosts to rest. It was really triumphant.”

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DON’T CUT ME AGAIN! True Stories About Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC)

Have you had a cesarean section (c-section) and are you pregnant again? Is your doctor or hospital trying to force you to undergo another c-section, just because you’ve had one previously? Are they spewing statistics about the potential consequences of Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC), but not telling you how dangerous another c-section can be?

Click HERE to read more.

29 April 2010

Did you know cell lines from aborted babies are in some vaccines?

Our four oldest children are fully vaccinated. I had no idea, all those years, that cell lines derived from aborted babies were in the vaccines being injected into my children.

Study Confirms Autism Boom – Correlates with Aborted Fetal DNA in Vaccines
“A recent study by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has confirmed 1988 as a “change point” in the rise of Autism Disorder rates in the U.S. – a date that pro-life leaders say correlates with the introduction of fetal cells for use in vaccines…”

Minnesota bill would require labeling of vaccines made from embryonic tissue
Any vaccine labeled as “derived from or manufactured using electively aborted human fetal or embryonic tissue” would require written consent from a patient before being administered…

LIST OF ABORTED FETAL CELL LINE VACCINES
US And Canada Aborted Fetal Vaccines In CDC Recommended Immunization Schedule Format.

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DON’T CUT ME AGAIN! True Stories About Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC)

Have you had a cesarean section (c-section) and are you pregnant again? Is your doctor or hospital trying to force you to undergo another c-section, just because you’ve had one previously? Are they spewing statistics about the potential consequences of Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC), but not telling you how dangerous another c-section can be?

Click HERE to read more.

16 April 2010

Research Support VBACs…So Why Don’t Doctors?

“More women want to be able to have a baby naturally, even if they’ve had Caesareans. Research backs them up—so why won’t doctors?”

Click HERE to read the story in Newsweek.

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DON’T CUT ME AGAIN! True Stories About Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC)

Have you had a cesarean section (c-section) and are you pregnant again? Is your doctor or hospital trying to force you to undergo another c-section, just because you’ve had one previously? Are they spewing statistics about the potential consequences of Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC), but not telling you how dangerous another c-section can be?

Click HERE to read more.

16 April 2010

Florida Wants to Ban VBACs in Birth Centers!

“Unwilling to accept a permanent ban on vaginal birth after Cesarean (VBAC) in Florida’s birth centers, a coalition challenging the rule argues that Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration is overstepping its bounds by intervening in the activities of licensed healthcare providers and by overriding the “informed consent” standard for patients…”

Click HERE to read the entire story by Anna Clark at RH Reality Check.

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DON’T CUT ME AGAIN! True Stories About Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC)

Have you had a cesarean section (c-section) and are you pregnant again? Is your doctor or hospital trying to force you to undergo another c-section, just because you’ve had one previously? Are they spewing statistics about the potential consequences of Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC), but not telling you how dangerous another c-section can be?

Click HERE to read more.

5 April 2010

Breast-Feeding Would Save Lives, Money

“The findings suggest that there are hundreds of deaths and many more costly illnesses each year from health problems that breast-feeding may help prevent. These include stomach viruses, ear infections, asthma, juvenile diabetes, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and even childhood leukemia.”

See:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,590408,00.html?test=latestnews

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DON’T CUT ME AGAIN! True Stories About Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC)

Have you had a cesarean section (c-section) and are you pregnant again? Is your doctor or hospital trying to force you to undergo another c-section, just because you’ve had one previously? Are they spewing statistics about the potential consequences of Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC), but not telling you how dangerous another c-section can be?

Click HERE to read more.