Mothers are often disappointed when they give birth in a hospital that offers none of the options they may have read about on the internet or learned in their childbirth classes. Some are literally traumatized by the care they received. At Cedars-Sinai Medical...
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologist Committee on Ethics just published Refusal of Medically Recommended Treatment During Pregnancy. The update to the 2005 Committee Opinion Number 321 reaffirms in no uncertain terms that a woman has the right to...
In honor of the International Day of the Midwife 2016, let’s celebrate the excellent and compassionate care they provide to mothers and babies. Compared with physicians caring for similar healthy women, professional midwives offer women more prenatal visits and spend...
A recently published study on planned home VBAC in the United States, the largest to date, may shed a little more light on the safety of home birth after a cesarean for parents who may be considering that option. The study is the second one on planned home births...
With thanks to Hermine Hayes-Klein, U.S. attorney for her assistance with this article. On September 20th over 1,000 individuals, health professionals, and birth advocates groups will be screening the one hour campaigning documentary Freedom For Birth: The Mothers’...
Although VBAC is encouraged by ACOG and viewed by the National Institutes of Health as a reasonable option to a repeat cesarean, less than 10% of women with a prior cesarean had a VBAC in 2010. A study published in the September issue of the American Journal of...