Showing posts with label healthy birth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label healthy birth. Show all posts

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Birthing Again: A VBAC Experience

"My first baby was born by cesarean section. My husband and I worked with the same midwives for both births and had desired a natural childbirth with the first. In the first case, I believe that the intervention of surgery was wise. The baby clearly had distress in labor and was born, full term, at only five pounds.

"When my second baby was conceived, we again longed for a natural childbirth. Despite discouragement from doctors and medical advertisements, I was able to birth vaginally this second child. Three conditions especially undergirded this birth: supportive assistants, a pregnancy of heart and body, and an active birth."

Birthing Again: A VBAC Experience is a wonderful article written by Melissa Aberle-Grasse for Mothering Magazine about her VBAC Birth Experience. Please click on the link to read the article in its entirety and learn how Melissa prepared for and followed through with her plans for a Vaginal Birth After Cesarean.

Saturday, August 15, 2009

The Guide to a Healthy Birth


I recently ran across a website for a group called Choices in Childbirth.
Their objective is to help educate women so they can make informed choices in their maternity care. They have a pdf e-book that can be downloaded for free:

The Guide to a Healthy Birth

The above link will take you directly to the 2009-2010 edition of the guide. There is also a 2008-2009 edition available. If you happen to live in New York or Philadelphia, there are guides available specifically for those areas as well.