Childbearing women have a fundamental right to choose how, where and with whom they want to give birth, but in the United States women who choose to labor for a VBAC (known as TOLAC, trial of labor after cesarean) in a hospital are often being denied that right....
Breech presentation occurs in 3-4% of all term pregnancies and is the third most common reason for performing a cesarean in the U.S. More than 90% of breech babies are delivered by planned cesarean section. External Cephalic Version (ECV), a procedure that helps to...
April is Cesarean Awareness Month. An opportunity to showcase a model of care that lowers the odds for cesarean section for healthy women and leads to optimal health outcomes for mothers and babies. Research shows that the following birth practices lead to optimal...
Evidence shows that a collaborative model of care that includes physicians and midwives working together can lower interventions, the use of drugs for pain relief in labor, induction and cesarean rates and improve health outcomes for mothers and babies. Brigid Maher,...
In a recently published White Paper by the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative researchers in California confirmed that the high number of cesarean sections performed in the United States and in California put mothers and babies at increased risks and add...
Cesarean section is major abdominal surgery can put mothers and babies at risk for several complications. Pulmonary embolism, a blockage in a lung artery, is one of the leading causes of maternal mortality. It is caused by a blood clot in the leg (deep vein...
Although three out of four women who labor for a VBAC have safe normal births, routine repeat cesareans are still the norm in many countries. In the United States, women with a prior cesarean who want to plan a VBAC are at the mercy of the few providers and hospitals...
November is Prematurity Awareness Month when the March of Dimes (MoD) encourages care providers and the public to focus on the high number of preterm births in the United States and what can be done to reduce them. The March of Dimes, along with state and national...