Support & Information on C Section, Cesarean Birth, C Section Recovery & Healing
1. Educate yourself The most effective way to empower yourself to make informed decisions about birth, is knowledge. When you understand the terminology of medical birth and the pro’s and con’s of procedures and interventions, you are much less likely to be bamboozled or pressured into something for no good medical reason. The fact that [...]
In some quarters the evidence that high levels of interventions in childbirth such as inductions and c-sections are not a good thing is done and dusted. Sadly they are a small minority, and in hospitals across America and increasingly the world, intervention rates continue to increase. We have to believe though that the continued and [...]
C-Section delivery is now the most common surgery in US hospitals with one in three births being a cesarean. At a time when everyone from the Government down is looking at what things cost a new report suggest that billions of dollars could be saved in health care costs by reducing the number of c-section [...]
Why is it that home births account for such a small percentage of deliveries in the US? It’s just 1% while the other 99% take place in hospitals, the vast majority attended by doctors. Both the American Medical Association and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) site ‘safety’ as the reason for their [...]
Did you know that newborn babies in the United States are routinely tested for a range of genetic diseases. As this testing is required by the government, it’s often done without the parents’ consent, or knowledge. Subsequently most parents don’t know their baby’s DNA is being stored in a government lab, and maybe used in [...]
Women who plan home births recover more rapidly from childbirth, but there is a higher risk of their child dying, an international study suggests. US analysis of more than 500,000 births in North America and Europe found death rates for babies in planned home births were double that of those in planned hospital births. But [...]
If you’ve been her before you probably know we are big advocates of massage as part of your c section recovery. Below is a preview of a wonderful self massage program to increase fertility and chances of pregnancy from the Natural Fertility Shop. Fertility massage is a powerful natural fertility treatment that has been used [...]
More and more women who had their first child by cesarean delivery are opting for a vaginal birth next time round. This is know as VBAC – vaginal birth after cesarean. When c sections were done with a vertical incision vbac was actually risky, but today the vast majority of c sections are performed with [...]
In America, having a hospital birth and having a natural birth are pretty much incompatible. In 1900 95% of all births were at home, since 1955 it has only been 1%. Yet America, of all the developed countries in the world has the worst infant mortality rate. In most hospitals intervention in the birth process [...]
The Deluxe C-Section Recovery Kit
The C-Section Recovery Kit
The C-Section Support Belt
The Hem-It-In C-Section Binder
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