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- The Final Post
- Thanks for a great fundraiser!
- The Unnecesarean on Bloomberg.com
- Informed Choice, Community and Pregnancy
- Campaign: Report Cesarean Rates to the Public!
- Professor Declercq Discusses Rising Cesarean Rates
- What Did We Learn Here Today?
- VBAC: "Should I stay home to labor until it's too late?"
- Video of Human Childbirth in an MRI
- Interview with the Pregnancy Power team: Dr. Jim Betoni & Camilla Bicknell, NP
- My Kind of Birth Plan
- In Kase You Actually Kare...
- Where are women sent online for information on VBAC after two cesareans?
- What is The Pregnancy Power Workbook all about?
- Human Rights in Childbirth Conference
- "Find a doctor that will support you"
- Childbirth Simulators Mobilize
- OBs, Midwives, Lies and I Have No Idea How to Title This Post
- Video: Caesarean section at full term for contracted pelvis (1930)
- Quick Hit: What to reject when you're expecting
- New research shows...
- Hopes of VBAC out the window?
- 50% Off Webinar for the Human Rights in Childbirth Conference
- "Fracturing the Doctor-Patient Bond"
- Canadian Government Releases Facility-Level Cesarean and VBAC Rates
- Labor takes longer now. In other news, green hospital gowns cause colitis.
- Sharing All of the Important Numbers
- ACLU Intervenes to Help Woman Get a Trial of Labor
- Everything's Bigger in Texas
- The Case for Not Using One Personal Anecdote as a Global Case
- An Informal Poll on VBAC Access
- Jill Arnold and Bianca Wooden Interviewed on SuperTalk Mississippi Radio
- CesareanRates.com
- A Victory for Activists™: Censoring the Glory of the Belly
- Venn Diagram of Site Metrics: Readership of The Unnecesarean
- Home Births in the United States, 1990-2009
- Down Home Gynecology
- Why It's Difficult to Calculate Provider-Level Cesarean Rates
- Iowa Cesarean Rates by Hospital, 2010
- "Non C-Section Deliveries"
- Twin Birth Rate in the U.S. Rose 76 Percent in Two Decades
- Working to Ban VBAC at Your Hospital? Then Stop Griping About Home Birth
- Minnesota Cesarean Rates by Hospital, 2010
- Massachusetts Ten Highest Total Cesarean Rates, 2008 and 2009
- Perinatal Quality Collaborative of North Carolina Receives $1M in Support
- Illinois Cesarean Rates by Hospital, 2010
- The Nativity Story: 2011
- Better Risk Counseling Tends to Lower Procedure Utilization
- PhotoShop: Bradley Book Guy and Short-Shorts
- How I Would Counsel a Woman with a Suspected Large Baby
- U.S. Cesarean Rate Drops for First Time in More Than a Decade
- Mission Accomplished!
- Cesarean Rates by State, 2010
- Congresswoman Roybal-Allard Applauds the Home Birth Consensus Summit
- Monday Open Thread
- Jury awards $144 million for failure to perform a C-section
- OMG, R U SRSLY WRITING ABOUT THE VAMPIRE CESAREAN IN BREAKING DAWN?
- CDC Publishes "Births: Final Data for 2009"
- Florida Cesarean Rates by Hospital, 2010
- Second City's Completely Honest OB-GYN
- Home Birth Consensus Summit Statements
- Insurance Coverage and Elective Cesareans In New Jersey
- Where You Are Is What You Get
- Bill Cosby on Childbirth
- A Deliberately Insubstantial Post about the Home Birth Consensus Summit
- Acupuncture and Labor
- Pelvic Floor Disorders and Method of Childbirth
- "More Business of Being Born" Explores Cesareans and VBAC
- Practice Variation: Induction Rates at University vs. Community Hospitals
- New Yorkers, Did You Get Your Maternity Information Booklet While Pregnant?
- World Cesarean Rates: OECD Countries, 2009
- Attorney Rebecca Brodie to Give Birth in Shackles as Protest
- Coming Soon: Florida Cesarean Rates by Hospital, 2010
- FIGO: Ethical guidelines regarding interventions for fetal wellbeing
- Our Bodies, Ourselves is 40 and I'm Not Wearing Pants
- I am going to the Home Birth Consensus Summit. Thank you.
- Any Chance You'll Help Get Me to the Home Birth Consensus Summit? Please?
- A Word from K, Our Senior Adjunct Section Correspondent
- Patient-Controlled Epidural Anesthesia (PCEA)
- Louisiana Cesarean Rates by Hospital, 2009
- Mississippi Cesarean Rates, 2010
- Captain Obvious on Episiotomies and Cesareans?
- Comment of the Week: "Better response to ALL obstetric emergencies"
- Bringing Back the VBAC
- Feminism, what is it good for? Absolutely nothin'?!
- Peanut Balls and VBAC Bans
- Monday Open Thread: Labor Day Edition!
- BOLD Turns Five: An Interview with Playwright Karen Brody
- Konichiwa Patients: Best. OB. Ever
- Vaginal Birth Best 85% of the Time? Why Did Tuteur Claim C/S Rate Too High?
- Pregnancy: Not a Disease, Not Exactly a Skip Through Fluffy Bunny Land, Either
- A Midwife and an OB Walked Into a Blog...
- PostSecret.com Cesarean Post
- Monday Open Thread!
- "Chauvinism, male, variable amounts" in Williams Obstetrics
- CDC Reports Examine Childbearing Patterns in Three Different Eras
- "guidelines are only as good as the evidence that underlies them"
- Waiting Room Penguin
- Monday Open Thread!
- Wind of Change
- Monday Open Thread: Home Birth Summit Edition
- Birth and Pop Culture: Alien Babies and Torture Pregnancies
- Birth and Pop Culture: Horrifying Cakes Edition
- (Late) Monday Open Thread
- "The Relentless Rise"
- California Cesarean Rates by Hospital, 2009
- Monday Open Thread
- Jen Holloman Told Her Home Birth Story to the Boston Globe
- Five Hot Topics in Labor and Delivery in the Last Ten Years
- Why I've been afraid to share my home birth story
- "I Plan to Let the Koi Guide Him Up to Me"
- Monday Open Thread
- Oregon Cesarean Rates by Hospital, 2010
- Who is responsible for "educating" pregnant women?
- "Abuse and Neglect" as Deterrents to Skilled Care in Childbirth?
- Whether beneficial or not
- VBAC vs. Repeat Cesarean: "Try on" both choices
- "The unfortunate politics of VBAC"
- So I got an epidural for my VBAC. Get over it.
- Puerto Rico's 48 Percent Cesarean Rate
- Complicating Conditions Listed for 94.1 Percent of 4.2 Million U.S. Births in 2008
- "So, what do you really think of the blog?"
- Guaranteed Internet Gold!
- Will Vermont's H.3921 Lower the State's Cesarean Rate?
- White Ladies Love Them Some Homebirths; Meanwhile, Midwives Win in Colorado
- Should Providers Refuse to Treat Overweight Pregnant Women?
- Legal Settlements as a Substitute for the Right to Care
- Monday Open Thread
- The Saturday Night Live Natural Childbirth Video Sketch
- An Obstetrician's Hope
- Another Obstetrician's Lament
- A Comeback for VBAC?
- Lament, in Stereo
- Lamenting the System
- VBAC in a Military Hospital
- Call for Participants: Coping with an Unplanned Cesarean
- Monday Open Thread
- Comparison of Verbiage in ACOG's Position Statements on VBAC
- Darynée Blount Discusses the California Association of Midwives Conference
- April Travel
- Planned Home Birth and the Ethical Obligations of Obstretricians
- Movie: The Fight for Life (Pare Lorentz, 1940)
- A Tale of Two Cities: Unwarranted Variation in Tonsillectomy Rates in Vermont
- Cesarean Rates by State, 2009
- Massachusetts Cesarean Rates, 2008
- Perceptions of Home Birth After a Previous Hospital Birth
- I Imagine I've Been Called Worse Things Than a Box
- New Maternity Care Data Visualization from Childbirth Connection
- Monday Open Thread
- Criticism of Routine Lithotomy Position from an Unusual Source
- A(nother) Critique of the Wax Paper
- Mission Accomplished at a Miami-Area Hospital!
- Reducing Early Inductions in Tennessee
- Can I Change Care Providers While Pregnant?
- All About the Benjamins? TennCare's Call for Lower Cesarean Rates
- New York Cesarean Rates, 2008 and 2009
- I Support Natural Childbirth... and I'm Planning a Cesarean
- Monday Open Thread
- Stirrups and Stories
- Catching Babies Blog Series: Fear, Faith and Perverse Incentives
- CBS News: Location to blame for unnecessary surgery?
- An 80's VBAC Keepsake
- Scripps Health Puts Its Chapstick Where Its Mouth Is
- Al Jazeera English Presents Birthrights
- Virginia Cesarean Rates by Hospital, 2009
- North Carolinians to March for Legalization and Licensing of CPMs
- Monday Open Thread
- With No Local VBAC Options, Leah Considers Unassisted Birth
- Comforting a Woman Traumatized by her Birth Experience
- Comment of the Week: Changing 9-1-1 Protocol Standards for Childbirth?
- Want to see the new Nitrogesia (nitrous oxide) equipment?
- The Shoelace Protocol
- The Vanderbilt Experiment: Pregnant Women as Radiation Test Subjects
- From Supine to Lupine
- February Travel (with Pictures)
- Monday Open Thread
- Mississippi OB Files Motion to Reconsider HB207, The Midwife Safety Act
- The Blonksy: Apparatus for Facilitating the Birth of a Child by Centrifugal Force
- AMA Editorial Endorses the HEALTH Act of 2011
- Monday Open Thread
- Comment of the Week: Understanding "Under the Radar"
- Is The Big Push for Midwives an Oppressive Campaign?
- J.D. Kleinke on Defensive Medicine, Obstetrics and Women's Health
- Article Round-up: Early Inductions, Practice Variation and Baby-Snatching
- Monday Open Thread
- When Cosmo meets What To Expect
- Patrice Welcomes Baby Simone
- New ACOG Opinion on Home Birth Touts Rights, Nixes HBAC and CPMs
- Building Trust in a Defensive Environment
- Patient Advocates on How to Defend Oneself from Defensive Medicine
- Defensive Medicine is a Symptom of a "Risk Society"
- No One Truly Benefits from Defensive Medicine
- Going on the Offensive
- Texas-Style Tort Reform: The Real Impact of Proposition 12
- Collateral Damage: A Patient’s Experience of Defensive Medicine
- The Separate "Fetal Patient": Does Defensive Medicine Justify Medical Coercion?
- Who is defending whom from what?
- The Trap of Overselling and Underdelivering
- The Necesarean: The Perspective of a Plaintiff's Birth Trauma Attorney
- Hanging Up My Gloves
- Malpractice 101 (and other scary stories surgeons tell in the dark)
- Myths of Malpractice in American Obstetrics
- Defending Ourselves against Defensive Medicine
- Is it distrust or is it just a different paradigm?
- Nitrous Oxide for Laboring Women in the United States
- Why I Broadcast my Birth on the Internet: Lynsee Speaks Up
- An Apology and a Critique of a Birth Maxim
- Letter to the Editor: "Oh, Snap!" Edition
- Monday Open Thread
- South African Childbirth Resources?
- California Watch Examines Early "Elective" Births
- Pre-Holiday Induction of Labor without Medical Indication
- U.S. Cesarean Rate Reaches Record High, Rises for 13th Consecutive Year
- Monday Open Thread
- Do Rights Right Wrongs? Venezuela Lacks Infrastructure to Combat Violence
- VBAC radio show- Monday 12/20
- Virginia Cesarean Rates by Hospital, 2006
- Propaganda for a Different Kind of War
- Sheri's (Really) Big HBAC Story
- An Alternative OBGYN Birth Plan
- "Patient Refusal" as Contraindication to Epidural Anesthesia?
- Woman Gives Birth in an MRI Machine
- Latin American Countries Campaign for Access to Vertical Birth
- Coming Soon: Defending Ourselves against Defensive Medicine
- A Physician Responds to Claim about OB-GYN Education
- ACOG v. Midwives, Part a Million
- Comment of the Week: Captioning a Bad Stock Photo
- Connecticut Cesarean Rates by Hospital, 2007
- Time-Sensitive Request from a Documentary Producer
- Editor of The Lancet Discusses Controversial Wax Home Birth Paper
- Who Chooses the Choices?
- New Online Public Health Resources: Atlas of Birth and Measure of America
- Monday Open Thread
- Bill Gates and Robot Cesareans
- Blocked!
- The Works of Thomas Denman, Manmidwife
- Illinois' Home Birth Safety Act (SB 3712)
- Happy
- 1947 Maternity Ward Pamphlet from Santa Monica Hospital
- 1974 Maternity Ward Pamphlet for New Mothers
- Cesarean Rates by State, 2008
- Comment Moderation is On!
- Monday Open Thread
- “Obstetric Violence” Introduced as a New Legal Term in Venezuela
- Comment(s) of the Week: Pop Culture References
- 1953 Video: Henry Kaiser's Dream Hospital
- Informed Consent Involves More Than Saying "It Could Be Dangerous"
- 1954 Video: Socially Acceptable Behaviors for Young Women
- 1950 Video: Labor and Childbirth
- NIH Releases New Database of 2.5 Million Images in Biomedical Literature
- The Rituals of American Hospital Birth
- OMG, R U SRSLY WRITING ABOUT THE VAMPIRE CESAREAN IN BREAKING DAWN?
- Susan's Third Birth: Stolen Triumph
- Baggage Check
- Shifting Paradigms with the MCH Life Course Toolkit
- A Tale of Two MOMS: ACOG Pulls a Fast One
- A Not-So-Subtle Shift in Wording
- Monday Open Thread
- Making the Most of Your Birth Experience, Part I
- Quick Hit: The two faces of C-sections
- Doctoral Student Needs Your Help!
- Comment of the Week: No Control?
- Elizabeth Cohen Talks Patient Empowerment with TheUnnecesarean.com
- Watch Elizabeth Cohen’s “The Empowered Patient” Documentary Saturday!
- Guest Post: We Need a Movement
- Racism and Low Birth Weight 101
- "Maverick": How One Baby Survived Iatrogenic Prematurity
- Comment of the Week: I Realize That I Can't Remove Fate
- Susan's Second Birth: "A Step in the Right Direction"
- Canada OB-GYNs Now Require Explicit Consent for Pelvic Exams
- Quick Hit: VBAC in Ireland
- Monday Open Thread
- Interview with Shannon Hayes, Radical Homemaker
- Indiana Cesarean Rates by Hospital, 2008
- Read the Subtext: ACOG's Position on Home Birth
- For-Profit California Hospitals Perform More Cesareans than Non-Profits
- So, About This Birth Rape Thing
- Giving Birth in 1973: Susan's Story
- Policing Naked Babies
- Comment of the Week: Not in my hospital
- Going the Distance
- Cesarean Rate Posts on The Unnecesarean
- Most Popular Posts on The Unnecesarean
- Medical Student Won't Perform Pelvic Exams on Anesthetized Patients
- Woman as Fodder: Australia's Obstetric Monopoly
- Childbirth can only be declared normal in retrospect?
- Iowa Cesarean Rates by Hospital, 2009
- Aspirin in Early Pregnancy May Prevent Preeclampsia
- Washington State Cesarean Rates by Hospital, 2009
- Comment of the Week: Obesity is the Perfect Scapegoat
- Utah Lawmaker May Propose Cutting Use of Epidurals to Save Money
- Obesity Causes a Rise in… Articles about the Cesarean Rate
- Monday Open Thread
- TheUnnecesarean.com Turns Two
- BMJ Deputy Editor on Home Birth: 'Throwing the baby back into the bathwater'
- Remote Obstetrics: There's an app for that?!
- Woman Who Didn't Have a Healthy Baby Reflects on the "Healthy Baby" Trope
- Do you know SQUAT?
- Quick Hit: Court Rules in Favor of V.M.
- The "Home Birth" Room in Season Five of Weeds
- Dr. Nancy Snyderman on Postpartum Depression and Cesareans
- Comment of the Week: Not Letting an Algorithm Diagnose You
- Anarchist Midwifery: An Interview
- Monday Open Thread
- Time for a Change? Induction of Labor Increases Odds of Cesarean Delivery
- Mother's Advocate Tracks Down Historical Footage for Video Series
- Pregnant? Check your skepticism at the door.
- Video: MOMS for the 21st Century Act
- Monday Open Thread
- Quick Hit: "In the Manner Prescribed By the State"
- How will ACOG handle the PR challenge of promoting VBAC as a safe option?
- Does vaginal birth have a future?
- World Cesarean Rates: OECD Countries
- A Strange Juxtaposition of Articles on VBAC
- Mexico’s Fifty Percent Cesarean Rate
- Invisible Women, Invisible Shackles
- Mocking Patients' Race and Class in Animated Videos
- Comment of the Week: Erin Becomes an Informed Consumer
- Monday Open Thread
- New Study Identifies Need to Distinguish Planned from Unplanned Home Births
- OB/GYN Journal Fast Tracks Anti-Home Birth Study in Advance of Pro-Midwife Legislation
- The Seedy Underbelly of Jill's Hard Drive
- Robbie Davis-Floyd on Coersion and Choice
- Should We Rethink Inductions and Cesareans Prior to 39 Weeks?
- A Carnival for Your Fourth of July
- Whoops! Newscore, BBC News and Fox News Forgot to Fact-check
- Dr. Robert Biter Speaks Out About Scripps Encinitas
- July Slowdown
- The Lessons of the Boondock Saints and Tanya Lewis Lee
- ACOG's Letter of Concern Regarding Collaborative Agreements
- Contemporary OB/GYN on Suspected Macrosomia and Taking Responsibility
- Monday Open Thread
- Coerced Cesareans in Venezuela
- Six Months of New York Birth Politics in the Media
- Mornidine: Now She Can Cook Breakfast Again
- Sixteen-Year-Old Doula Allie Sakowicz Gears Up for Summer
- Do Overweight Pregnant Women Need Separate High-Risk Hospitals?
- Does Electronic Fetal Monitoring Increase the Rate of Unnecessary Cesareans?
- Monday Open Thread
- Liebrals and Demoflops Want to Blow Out Your Wife's Vagina... FOR WHAT?
- Absurd Graphery
- Monday Open Thread
- Contemporary Opera Amelia Challenges Cultural Birth Norms
- Illinois Cesarean Rates by Hospital, 2008
- Lost Births
- Monday Open Thread
- Preterm Birth Crisis in Puerto Rico
- Canadian Government Publishes Birth Intervention Rates for 2008-2009
- VBAC Consent Form Revision Revisited: Your Feedback Requested Again
- Monday Open Thread
- Alabama Cesarean Rates by Hospital, 2008
- "Preniva won't solve all your problems... you'll always be a woman"
- Solutions... I have them
- A beautiful piece of animation
- There Are Cesareans... And Then There's Everything Else
- Moving beyond "Healthy Mom, Healthy Baby"
- A Mother's Wish for Mother's Day
- Maternity Care Costs
- Billing Insurance for Hospital Birth
- Cite 'em if you've got 'em
- The Man-Nurse Diaries on New Joint Commission Guidelines
- That Post on Natural Childbirth
- North Carolina Cesarean Rates by Hospital, 2008
- Natural Orifice Trials Begin, Surgeons Discover Alternative to Cesarean
- Females with Deliveries Discharged from U.S. Hospitals in 2005
- Looking for Hospital Cesarean Rates is a Snipe Hunt
- And the land we belong to is grand - unless you're pregnant.
- Want to Help Review a VBAC Consent Form?
- Monday Open Thread
- 'Cesarean Voices' Exhibit Opens in Baltimore on Thursday
- BIRTHQUAKE!
- Birthsnarkers: Wiser or Wiseacres?
- Alaska Cesarean Rates by Hospital, 2008
- Are we still blaming women for the outcomes of childbirth?
- What is the Weirdest Drive-By Parenting Advice You've Ever Received?
- Are Obstetricians More Likely to Perform Cesareans than Family Docs?
- The S-Word
- The best and safest Medicine for Ladies.
- Tennessee Cesarean Rates by Hospital, 2008
- So what does "good" look like?
- No, thank you.
- Parents Magazine Asks "Don't Want Another C-Section?"
- The Virtue of Complaining
- Cesareans and Grief
- California Cesarean Rates by Hospital, 2008
- The Most Important Thing
- U.S. Cesarean Rate Rises for Twelfth Consecutive Year to 32.3 Percent
- Over the Curtain
- New Jersey Cesarean Rates by Hospital, 2009
- VBAC Doesn't Make it All Better
- VIDEO: More Details on the Cesarean Performed on Non-Pregnant Woman
- Doctors Induced and Performed Cesarean on Non-Pregnant Woman
- Ohio Low-Risk, First-Time Cesarean Rates by Hospital, 2008
- Massachusetts Cesarean Rates by Hospital, 2007
- VBAC and Repeat Cesarean Voices
- Maryland Cesarean Rates by Hospital, July 2008 to June 2009
- Minimizing the Negative Effects of Epidural Anesthesia
- NCHS Releases Report on Recent U.S. Cesarean Delivery Trends
- United States Cesarean Rate by State, 1990 to 2007
- Open Thread: Health Care Reform
- Florida Cesarean Rates, 2000 to 2008
- Florida Cesarean Rates by Hospital, 2008
- United States Cesarean Rates by Year, 1970 to 2007
- State of Florida to Ban VBAC in Birth Centers
- Good Little Girls
- Do Pregnant Women Have the Right to Refuse Surgery?
- Is Revolt Brewing All Over?
- Open Thread: VBAC and Informed Consent
- NIH VBAC Consensus Development Conference: Gift Horse or Trojan Horse?
- NIH Press Release: Panel Questions "VBAC Bans"
- From the NIH VBAC Conference...
- Why VBACs Should Be the Norm, Not the Deviant Care Pattern
- What is an exoticized image of a woman of color giving birth?
- Too Polite to Fight
- I have an idea for the ICAN blog carnival about VBAC...
- Quick Hit: Geographic Variation in the Appropriate Use of Cesarean Delivery
- Cesarean Rates and Premature Birth in the Southern United States
- Race and the Rights of Childbearing Women
- E! Shows Kourtney Kardashian Participating in Delivering Her Baby
- ACOG on Fallibility of Obstetric Judgment and Mode of Delivery
- Scare Tactics, Anxiety Late in Pregnancy and PTSD After Childbirth
- Guest Post: Why can’t we be proactive instead of reactionary?
- A Little Appreciation
- ¿Quién Es Esa Niña? Who’s That Girl?
- On Culture, Cuts, and a Coherent Message.
- Total Cesarean Rates by Reportable Health Region, Canada, 2005–2006
- Map of Cesarean Delivery Rates by State, 2007
- Baltimore Activists Seek to Raise 'Cesarean Voices' to New Level
- Cesarean Delivery Rates by State, 2007
- Anything else you'd like to destroy and repair for educational purposes?
- Monstrous rumors, evidence, and educating feminist allies
- An Actual Introduction-Introduction by Emjaybee
- Good BaZi for Baby by Cesarean
- Substituting Schmaltz for Substance: Another Look at "Inside the O.R."
- Quick Hit: New Research on Safety of VBA3C
- Those Crazy Induction-Loving Moms
- Transcript of The Today Show's Live Cesarean Section Episode
- The Term "Unnecesarean" Used in Midwifery Today
- "Boom, here's your baby!"
- Introduction: Mysteria, aka ANaturalAdvocate
- Introduction: That Other Jill
- Yes, It's True: Med Students Perform Pelvic Exams on Anesthetized Women
- Introduction: Avoiding the Blogaround
- The State of the Blog Address
- Tonight I Learned How BlogTalkRadio Works
- A Few Excerpts from Health Care Practioner Blogs
- Women Protest Violence Against Laboring Women in Bulgarian Hospitals
- U.S. Department of Defense Guide to Emergency Childbirth
- Beyond the Abstract of the New South Australian Home Birth Study
- Media Coverage of Burton v. State of Florida
- Pregnant Woman in Australia Gets a Visit from the Pitocin Police
- Name that Fetal Position
- Burton v. State of Florida Court-Ordered Bedrest Trial is Underway
- WHO Survey on Cesareans and Pregnancy Outcomes in Asia
- "Now you need to get me to surgery"
- Everyone is Talking Triplets...
- Start Attacking the Zombie Lord and the Minions Will Fall. Right?
- Ohio Releases Hospitals’ 2008 C-Section Rates for Low-Risk First Births
- What to Expect When You're Not Expecting to Be Sued by Your Doctor
- Video: Images of Baby Jesus Breastfeeding
- Checking the Nativity Blogs
- Do You Suffer from Physician VBAC Hysteria?
- Pennsylvania Department of Health Releases 2008 Hospital Cesarean Rates
- CNN's Elizabeth Cohen on How to Fight for Vaginal Birth
- Defensive Medicine and Internet Message Boards
- Choices in Childbirth Publicizes New York Metro Area Cesarean Rates
- Monday Reading: Inductions, VBACs, Building a Birth Team and More
- Joseph DeLee Warns Colleagues in 1940 About "Streamlined Labors"
- It's the Catchiest Tune About Man-Midwifery You'll Ever Hear
- Joseph DeLee's 1915 Campaign to Eliminate the Midwife
- Joseph Bolivar DeLee and the Prophylactic Forceps Operation
- Stuff White People Like: Talking About Birth
- Convincing White Women that Birth is Painless Will End 'Race Suicide'
- Multiple Cesareans and Long-Term Maternal Health
- Maybe ACOG's New Font Will Inspire Reining In of High Cesarean Rates
- Refusing Pitocin in Labor: Helen's Story
- A Little Motherlovin' Gratitude
- Fight for Preemies: "I feel like I am the only mother..."
- Quote of the Day: Fads and Fancies Spur Obstetric Progress
- World's Most Disturbing Birth Statue
- "So, like, how does that work?": Explaining Out-of-Bed Birth
- "I felt violated by the process of a hospital birth"
- November Birth Stories
- The March of Dimes Fights Iatrogenic Prematurity
- Failure to Progress: A New ICAN Video Project
- Epidurals and Lower Back Tattoos
- Chicago-Area Woman Fired by Doctor for Refusing Unnecesarean
- Because it's NaBloPoMo...
- Attacked Shark Plans CBAC (Cloacal Birth After Cesarean)
- Bloggers: Write and Fight for Preemies on November 17, 2009
- Hospital Birth on Sesame Street
- Quote of the Day: Doctors are Scared to Change Practice Patterns
- Ralph Nader: Please Help Us Lower the Rate of Unnecessary Cesareans
- And the Winner of the Anti-Doula Sign PhotoShop Contest is...
- ACOG, GlaxoSmithKline, the Declaration of Helsinki and Ralph Nader
- Open Thread: Why I Do or Don't Think that Epidurals Are Bad
- A Note to Lynsee, Who Recently Broadcasted her Birth on the Internet
- Lynsee is in Labor, Broadcasting Birth Live Right Now
- PhotoShop Contest: Continued
- PhotoShop Contest: The Anti-Doula Sign in the Utah Obstetrician’s Office
- An Off-topic Case for Health Care Reform
- Inés Ramírez Pérez and the Mythical Self-Cesarean
- Hospitals Put Counter-Pressure on Doulas During Flu Season
- Joint Commission Measures: Elective Delivery and Cesarean Section
- Wordless Wednesday
- Fighting Fat Bias and and the Fear of Faulty Cervixes
- Women Describe Walking, Moving and Changing Positions in Labor
- VIDEO: CNN's Elizabeth Cohen Discusses VBAC and Cesarean Section
- Jon Stewart and The Daily Show Call Out CNN Fact Checkers
- Time Magazine Calls Vaginal Birth a Traumatic Alternative to Cesarean
- Doctor charged woman extra for asking too many questions during exam
- Joy Szabo Interviewed by Ron Reagan on Air America
- I am not a pre-existing condition
- Taye Diggs Talks Midwifery and Birth on The Ellen Show
- An OB's Birth Plan: Obstetrician's Disclosure Sent One Mom Running
- Can Ultrasound Really Predict the Weight of My Baby?
- Stories of Discriminatory Insurance Practices Needed by ICAN
- NEW VIDEO: Baby 'Too Fat' for Insurance Coverage
- Joy Szabo Made Some Noise about a VBAC Ban, CNN Listened
- Iatrogenic Fetal Injury: How often are babies cut during a c-section?
- Birth Lube
- VBAC News, Stories, Advice, Videos and Scare Tactics
- VIDEO: "Fat" Baby Denied Health Insurance
- Big Baby Denied Insurance: Infant in 99th Percentile Considered "Obese"
- The Compleat Midwife's Practice (1659)
- Proactive Support of Labor
- Maternity Care Advocacy: A Questionable Agenda?
- End of Summer Birth Story Round-up
- Flashback to 1986: Researchers say cesarean rate can drop without risk
- BlogTalkRadio: Informed Consent and Informed Refusal
- Lindsey's Journey to a VBAC
- Postdates: Separating Fact from Fiction
- Page Hospital in Arizona Threatens Woman with Court-Ordered Cesarean
- "Watch out," Florida Moms: If You're Prepped, They'll Cut
- I Say Classy Things About "Natural Birth"
- "Best of" Week: Adventures in Diapering and Beyond
- "Best of" Week: Dou-la-la (Anne Tegtmeier)
- "Best of" Week: Birth Activist's Jennifer Zimmerman
- "Best of" Week: Elemental Mom
- 19 Pound, 24 Inch Long Baby Boy Born in Indonesia
- "Best of" Week: Enjoy Birth
- "Best of" Week: Robin Elise Weiss
- "Best of" Week: Woman to Woman Childbirth Education
- "Best of" Week: Science and Sensibility
- "Best of" Week: Reality Rounds
- "Best of" Week: Talk Birth
- It's "Best of" Week at The Unnecesarean!
- Your Right to Refuse a Cesarean: ICAN’s Guide to VBAC Bans
- Kanye West Internet Meme: VBAC Style
- Hedonistic Obstetrics & Medical Spas: Ready for Your Pap-n-Wax™?
- ACOG Releases Survey Results: OB-GYNs "Ultimately Hurt Patients"
- Unnecessary Elective Surgeries at Good Samaritan! Pick Your Date!
- The Birth of The Unnecesarean
- 'VBAC in Oklahoma: Myths & Facts' on September 12 in OKC
- "My OB said WHAT?!"
- VBAC Article on NewsOK.com and the 800 Pound Vagina in the Room
- Futuristic Childbirth and Court-Ordered Cesareans
- At Least You Have a Healthy Baby
- 'Birth by the Numbers' on Updated Lamaze Video Library
- Big Bebeluş! Romanian Woman Gives Birth to 15 Pound (6.8 kg) Baby
- ACOG Survey: Complications Related to Home Delivery
- Misdiagnosis of Shoulder Dystocia: Bed Dystocia and Snug Shoulders
- My Baby is Four
- The Big Push For Midwives: ACOG Wants to Keep Women Hungry in Labor
- Aussie Labor Party Put a Bit of Rancid Ham in a Legislative Sandwich
- 'Reducing Infant Mortality' Movie is Ready to Share with Legislators
- La "Machine" de Madame du Coudray: More Babies for France
- Complaint Filed Against Obstetrician, Hospital for Unauthorized Sterilization During Cesarean
- The Fallacies and Falsehoods of Dr. Lisa Masterson
- New Logical Fallacy: Argumentum ad Necesarean
- What Would You Do for an Epidural?
- Spanish Toy Maker Introduces World's First Breastfeeding Doll… ¿Y Qué?
- Woman Ordered by State to Submit to Hospital Confinement, Cesarean
- ACLU Files Amicus Brief in Support of Woman Hospitalized Against Will
- Ottawa Citizen asks "Why so many c-sections?"
- Unnecesareans, Obstetrics and Blaming Lawyers
- My Personal Hero is Named Alexandra Orchard
- TheUnnecesarean.com Birth Stories Blog: July Stories
- Anonymous Comments about New Jersey Cesarean Refusal Case
- St. Barnabas Medical Center's Cesarean Rate is 49.3 Percent
- The Unnecesarean Has a New URL: www.theunnecesarean.com
- New Jersey Cesarean Refusal Case: The "System" is Schizophrenic
- Skol v. Pierce Update: Doctor Fined and Placed on Probation
- Refusal of Unnecesarean Leads to Loss of Custody: V's Story
- Superior Court of New Jersey Terminates Cesarean-Refusing Mom's Parental Rights
- Monday Reading: Health Care Reform and More
- Jon Stewart on Dick Morris and Democrats Denying Women Cesareans
- Obama Says Women Must Have a Natural Childbirth to Save Money?
- ICAN Cesarean Prevention Webinar: Monday, July 27 at 6:00 pm PDT
- Did Heather Armstrong Make Ricki Lake Pee Her Pants Today?
- Wicked Awful Cesarean Quotes of the Day: Massachusetts
- Getting Upright in Labor: InJoy and Lamaze Push Vertical Pushing
- Quotes of the Day: Cesareans and False Security
- "Pit to Distress" 2: Why We Are All Distressed
- Cindy Crawford Talks Home Birth
- Captured Moment Oral History Series: Anna Grier, Midwife
- "Pit to Distress": Your Ticket to an "Emergency" Cesarean?
- Unmedicated Birth, Positive Cesarean Experiences and Other Links
- The State of Maternity Care Doesn't Make Any Catz LOL
- Doulas, Racism, Home Birth in Spain and DNA-Altering Cesareans
- Perissomists, Philiaters and Iatrapistias: Medical Words You Don't Know
- Birth Videos, Cesarean Rage, Atul Gawande and the End of Vaginal Birth
- Brave Message Board Mom Questions Necessity of First Cesarean
- New Movie: Reducing Infant Mortality and Improving the Health of Babies
- Our Bodies, Ourselves: "Do Not Intervene for a Big Baby"
- Maternal weight gain is associated with "some outcomes"
- AHRQ Releases Report on Potentially Avoidable Birth Injuries
- Freedom of Movement in Labor Includes Upside Down?
- Hospitals Can't Handle VBACs? Then What Can They Handle?
- Can My Doctor Really Predict Shoulder Dystocia?
- I Had Shoulder Dystocia Once. Will It Happen Again?
- Canadian Birth Culture Begins Presenting Itself Differently
- Watch It, Sister! Your Words Might Get a Little Twisted
- AMA Resolution 710 to Identify Non-Compliant Patients Not Adopted
- Discovery Health FAIL: "Childbirth is major surgery"
- The AMA's "Ungrateful Patient" Resolution: A Cautionary Tale
- Did the AMA Steal Idea for Ungrateful Patient Resolution from Seinfeld?
- AMA Resolution: Identifying Abusive, Hostile or Non-Compliant Patients
- Times Online Gets Three Dramatic Chipmunks for Homebirth Headline
- Your Friendly 1936 Neighborhood OB Says 'Don't Kiss Your Baby'
- 1953 Los Angeles Times Editorial: Caesarean Often Not Necessary
- Quote of the Day: We Are Not Martyrs
- Amy Tuteur and I Would Probably Agree that Crunchy Mama is a Beast
- More Mainstream Media Coverage of Florida, The Cesarean State
- CPMs, Measuring Large, Compliance and a Few Webinars
- "Hope to see a natural birth today! Tired of cesarean..."
- Suspected Macrosomia? Better Not Tell the Admitting Doctor.
- The Good, The Sad, The Insensitive and The Cringe-Worthy
- Mom of 12 Pound, 9 Ounce Natural Birth Baby Stops By
- Response to 'Mom who really didn't and doesn't have a choice'
- "Doctors work from facts."
- Dr. Aaron Caughey Discusses Stalled Labor and Patience
- Pregnant Cougar in Florida Escaped En Route to a Cesarean Section
- Birth Video, Leicester
- Mama Hearts Baby: "A Baby Came Out of My Vagina!"
- Do You Have a Fax or a Phone? Can You Please Use Them Today?!
- The Perinatal Paradox, Eli Manning, Czech News Magazines and More
- Unnecesarean Birth Stories Wordle
- NHS YouTube Video Campaign Teaches Teens that Birth is Humiliating
- WATUPDOC: You Need to Take a Childbirth Education Class, Stat!
- Quick Hit: Study on Conflict Between Doctors and Midwives
- Transcript of Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein on The Doctors
- ICAN of San Diego: Live Podcast with Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein
- Get The Shape of a Mother on Oprah!
- Kendall Regional in Florida Boasts 70 Percent C-Section Rate
- Your Unnecesarean Weekend Reader
- International Day of the Midwife-- May 5, 2009
- While I Was Offline...
- "Childbirth moves, first, out of the home, and now out of the vagina"
- The Parenting Paddywagon: Post-Cesarean Mom Fails to Bond
- The Nurse Curse: Reality Rounds Tells Her Birth Story
- British Study Says Maternal Request Not Reason for Rising Cesarean Rate
- New Statistical Brief from Healthcare Cost & Utilization Project (HCUP)
- Michigan Couple Surprised by Baby's Birth, Call 911
- For Everyone Who Couldn't Count Change in their Third Trimester
- New Spanish Commercial for Beds Features an Actual Birth
- Cochrane Evidence Review: Move and Shorten First Stage of Labor
- Bruce Flamm: Some Say C-sections Are More Cost-Effective
- BBC News Article: Home births 'as safe as hospital'
- Quote of the Day: Doctors Like Cesareans and Control
- Spotlight on ICAN: New Life for the ICAN Chapter of San Diego, CA
- Pregnant Birth Bloggers
- MRSA Infects 18 New Moms and 19 Newborns at Boston's Beth Israel
- Breastfeeding and Feminism: "Case Against Breastfeeding" Closed!
- An 11 Pound, 12 Ounce HBA2C Baby Born at 45 Weeks
- In Which I Profess My Love for Labor and Delivery Nurses
- Economic Woes Lead to Cuts in Alternative Treatments
- C-Sections in the News and Maternal Request Poll Results
- Poll: How Many Maternal Request C-Section Moms Do You Know?
- An American Birth: Induction by Breakfast, C-Section by Dinner
- "Courtroom Mama" Tweets Controversies in Childbirth Conference
- Extreme Bias
- Time to Update ACOG's Patient Education Pamphlets?
- Eating During Childbirth? Yes you CAN, Says BMJ!
- Two Inspirational Birth Stories: Jenny and Amanda
- An Indefinite Moratorium on the Term "Mommy Wars," Please?
- ICAN Press Release: 2007 Cesarean Rate
- C-Section Rate Rises: 2007 U.S. Cesarean Rate Hit 31.8 Percent
- The Case Against Blaming Mothers
- OMG TEH BABEEZ R HUGE!
- Reporter Seeks Women with Accounts of Maternal Mortality & C-Sections
- Violence in Labor
- Peggy O'Mara on Freedom of Conscience and Informed Consent
- Everyone Loves a Giveaway
- Unwanted Intenventions in Canada & Risks of Pre-Term C-Sections
- Wednesday Childbirth Potpourri
- Assorted Linkery
- Massachusetts' Wicked High Cesarean Rates
- Reply to WRM's 'Just Another C-Section' Post
- Irish Hospitals Forcing Women to Give Birth Within Twelve Hours
- Australian Docs Say 'Natural Birth' Puts Women, Babies at Risk
- The Well-Rounded Mama on C-Sections
- Childbirth Without Choice: Pamela Paul's VBAC Story
- On Doctor Bashing
- Time Magazine Covers VBAC Struggle
- Quote of the Day: C-Section Recovery
- Aussie Debate Over Private Versus Public Hospitals
- NHS Puts Limits on Cesarean Sections
- Why I Love My Midwife
- Thank You, Salma Hayek
- Is This an Onion Article? Vaginal Birth versus Cesarean Section
- Old-School Breastfeeding Televised: PBS Style
- Another Brief Detour: Video on Hysterectomies
- Midwife-Designed Stainless Steel Childbirth Mirror on Sale in U.K.
- Financial Reasons to Examine Unnecessary OB/GYN Procedures
- The Winner of the Guess the Cesarean Rate Giveaway
- Iowa Woman Has 12 Pound, 9 Ounce Baby Girl
- Shoulder Dystocia "Diagnosis" and Decision to Section Called "Highly Subjective"
- "WHO" Cares? Brazil's 93 Percent Cesarean Rate in Private Hospitals
- "Obstetricians Sharing Care with Midwives"
- Rising Cesarean Rate May Be to Blame for Surge in Maternal Childbirth Complications
- A Labor and Delivery Nurse Tells Her Birth Story
- History of the Cesarean
- 2009 CIMS Mother-Friendly Childbirth Forum in San Diego
- Iatrogenic Shoulder Dystocia?
- It's Time for a Proper Blogroll
- Hey Women, Behave or Your Babies Will Be Less Intelligent!
- Pregnant in Gaza
- Creepy Obstetric and Childbirth Technology Patents
- The Birth Blogosphere's Agent Provoca(tu)teur
- Spinning It for the Doctors: Headline States Real Number of Unnecessary C-Sections May Be 4%
- More Than Just Rude Behavior: The Rest of Catherine Skol's Allegations
- "What If" Week: Tuesday
- Giveaway: Guess the 2007 U.S. Cesarean Rate, Win Two Books!
- Rebuilding Canada's Maternity Care System... With More Midwives
- Wagner Says WHO Research on Cesarean Rates is Current
- How to Protest a VBAC Denial
- Ricki's Room: The BoBB Message Board
- Article: Unnecessary Inductions- Trends, Studies and Guidelines
- Hospital Wins Award for Reducing Induction Births
- Michele from Birthcut.com Shares Her Story
- On Today's Playbill: Gina's VBAC Story
- Who Was the First U.S. President Born in a Hospital?
- University of Utah OB/GYN Research Chair Weighs in on Utah's "D" Grade
- The 2008 Premature Birth Report Cards Are In
- If There Were a Site Called "The Absolutely, Positively Necesarean..."
- November is Prematurity Awareness Month
- Waiting Out "Stalled Labor" Can Prevent Many Unnecesareans
- Sometimes a Big Baby is Just a Big Baby
- When Unborn Rights Trump Maternal Rights
- Computers to Determine if a Woman Needs a C-Section Early in Labor?
- Consumer Reports Health Weighs In on Maternity Care
- Birthing Choices a Feminist Issue?
- Contest: Birthing Rights and Challenging VBAC Bans
- UK Hospital Seeks to Lower C-section Rate
- "My doctor forced me into a c-section"
- The Birth Survey
- Fear of Lawsuits and Cesareans
- Time Magazine Covers Home Birth
- Fear of Pain and Cesareans
- Call for Birth Stories!
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