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• The Risks of Cesarean Section Fact Sheet & Expectant Mother’s Checklist
  Coalition for Improving Maternity Services, CIMS


• Making Informed Health Care Decisions (PDF)
  Nicette Jukelevics, MA, ICCE


• Should I Have a Cesarean? (PDF)
  Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health, Volume 49, No.2, March/April 2004.


• Information and Consent for Women with a Prior Cesarean Section(s)
  Bruce L. Flamm, MD


• Breech Babies: What Can I Do if My Baby is Breech?
  American Academy of Family Physicians
  


• Having a Baby? Ten Questions to Ask
  The Coalition for Improving Maternity Services (CIMS)


• Choices After a Cesarean Section (PDF)
  Vermont/New Hampshire VBAC Project Birth


• Cesarean Section, Information for the Public
  The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)


• Elective C-Sections Add Risks During Pregnancy
  Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada

Lamaze Institute for Normal Birth, Care Practices that Promote Normal Birth

• Labor Begins on Its Own


• Freedom of Movement Throughout Labor


• Continuous Labor Support


• No Routine Interventions


• Non-Supine Positions for Birth


• No Separation of Mother and Baby