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	Revealing the Real Risks: Obstetrical Interventions and Maternal Mortality The scientific evidence strongly suggests that the use of obstetric interventions is not saving more women's lives, but ending them.
	Anatomy Of A Miracle A mother learns after bedrest and a lengthy labor the true anatomy of a miracle.
	A VBAC Experience For a woman interested in vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC), working with a midwife and a supportive partner is critical. Even though medical research favors VBACs, medical practice generally opposes them.
	Home Safe Home: A VBAC - My Way A successful birth doesn't require a hospital. Not even a VBAC.
	How Childbirth Went Industrial: A Deconstruction Henci Goer, author of The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth, skewers Atul Gawande's article in the New Yorker on the rise of Cesarean sections.
	Fighting VBAC-Lash: Critiquing Current Research In light of the recent statement by The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) supporting vaginal birth after cesarean as safe for most women, we take a look at Mothering's past coverage of the subject.
	Birth After Cesarean: A Primer for Success In light of the recent statement by The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) supporting VBAC as safe for most women, we take a look at suggestions for planning a successful VBAC.
	Off Her Back The summer I learned I was pregnant, the notion of making a commitment to natural delivery in a birth center was furthest from my mind.
	Cesarean Birth in a Culture of Fear How the medicalization of childbirth harms women and babies.
	Attachment Parenting and the C-Section Deborah recommended a c-section, and we resigned ourselves to surgery. I didn't want to sacrifice rooming-in with the baby, however, and the hospital had never tried a rooming-in with a C-section family before.
	Willingness is the Key: A Birth Story When we enter the birth setting with love in our hearts and the willingness to be open and receptive, the outcome is a natural and painless childbirth.
	VBAC Victory! Although I was never happy about the cesarean section I had in my first pregnancy, I at first accepted it...more than a year later, regrets about my C-section surfaced for the first time.
	Once a Cesarean, Always a Cesarean: The Sorry State of Birth Choices in America The US cesarean rate is the highest ever. Here's why and what to do about it.
	Video - My Journey to a VBAC Watch the beautiful and empowering VBAC(vaginal birth after cesarean) of River.
	A VBAC Odyssey My birth saga starts at around 34 weeks of pregnancy when my midwife informed me that because of her own liability she had to refer me to an OB.
	Nonhospital VBAC and the Risk of Uterine Rupture A discussion of nonhospital VBAC risk.
	Infant Mortality, Cesarean, and VBAC Rates 1994-1995 chart comparing infant mortality rates during VBAC and cesarean in more than 20 industrialized nations.
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