Breast is Best - A teaching video about breastfeeding, mother’s milk, and early contact with the newborn. This 7-minute preview of the full 45 min. video from Norway shows a lovely birth by c/section where baby immediately goes skin to skin with mom. I love the way baby is also put skin to skin with dad.
A Natural Cesarean - This groundbreaking approach to surgical delivery called "skin-to-skin cesarean", or "walking the baby out" - has been pioneered in response to the rising cesarean rate... It allows for a slower cesarean birth giving the parents more of a chance to participate in their child's delivery and giving the baby a gentler experience of coming into the world.
Ideas
for the Best Cesarean Possible
- Penny Simkin’s 4-page handout.
If you have learned that you must have a cesarean (a “planned cesarean”) for
your safety or the baby’s, you may feel disappointed that you cannot have the
birth you had hoped and planned for. Here are some ideas for tailoring the
cesarean birth of your baby to make it very special and personally satisfying
for you, your partner, and your baby.
The International Cesarean Awareness Network, Inc. (ICAN) is a nonprofit organization founded by Esther Booth Zorn in 1982. ICAN's mission is to improve maternal-child health by preventing unnecessary cesareans through education, providing support for cesarean recovery, and promoting Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC).
The Caesarean 2004 book written by Michel Odent, MD. Poses very thought-provoking questions about c/sec. Here’s a preview.
Cesarean
Birth in a Culture of Fear
by Wendy Ponte
Mothering
Magazine Issue 144, September/October 2007
VBACs:
Breaking the Repeat Cesarean Cycle
- If you have had a cesarean, this is a great article full of hope for the next
birth.
San Francisco Chronicle, April 22, 2009.
From Amy Graff’s online column “The Mommy Files”.
The "Emergency" C-Section - A jaded of view of America's most overused surgical procedure. A 4-minute 3D animated short created Aug. 25, 2010.
Majority
of Caesareans Are Done Before Labor
- New York Times article by Denise Grady
A new study suggests several reasons for the nation’s rising Caesarean section
rate.
August 30, 2010
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