From: Empowering Birth Blog
I found a great site that I want to share, The Birth Facts. It has
some fantastic free downloads. My favorites are the Informed
Consent roleplay and the article from Mothering "Cesarean Birth in
a Culture of Fear." I plan...
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Lamaze Intl on Informed Consent
Making Tough Decisions Without All the Facts: How Inadequate
Informed Consent Puts Childbearing Families at Risk WASHINGTON
(March 10, 2009)—Imagine you are a woman in labor and your
doctor tells you that electronic fetal monitoring is necessary to
record your baby’s heartbeat. Without any further information
about the monitoring or its risks, you are given a consent form to
sign. Believing the doctor is doing what is best for you and your
baby, you sign. By neglecting to tell you that electronic fetal
monitoring can result in labor complications and increases the need
for cesarean surgery, your doctor has not held up his or her end of
the informed consent process. This shocking scenario plays out
nationwide thousands of times a day across a range of procedures.
The purpose of ...
Understanding the Dangers of Cesarean Birth: Making Informed Decisions
Understanding the Dangers of Cesarean Birth: Making Informed
Decisions, a new book by Nicette Jukelevics, MA, ICCE of the
wonderful resource on vaginal birth after cesarean section,
VBAC.com has just been published.You can learn more about the book
and view the table of contents at:
http://www.dangersofcesareanbirth.comI haven't had a chance to read
it yet, but I'm certain it will move onto my list of recommended
resources. Buy your copy from Amazon using GoodSearch and the
vendor will donate to the Coalition for Improving Maternity
Services (CIMS). Go to www.goodsearch.com/goodshop.aspx, choose
CIMS as your charity, then choose Amazon and enter Dangers of
Cesarean Birth in the Amazon search bar.This is a timely book I'm
sure will help empower and inform mothers to help stem the tide of
...
Last Post at this blog – Come to the New Enjoy Birth Blog!
This is the last post on the Old Enjoy Birth Blog. Never fear, I
have moved over to the new Enjoy Birth blog. If you haven’t
updated your RSS feed yet, you may have missed my most recent
posts: Does Mothering have to Equal Worrying? Your Baby is TOO Big!
Restaurants and Birth:Â What is [...]
Last Post at this blog – Come to the New Enjoy Birth Blog!
This is the last post on the Old Enjoy Birth Blog. Never fear, I
have moved over to the new Enjoy Birth blog. If you haven’t
updated your RSS feed yet, you may have missed my most recent
posts: Does Mothering have to Equal Worrying? Your Baby is TOO Big!
Restaurants and Birth:Â What is [...]
Plan For Your Birth
In the news recently there is a lot about planning for your birth,
writing birth plans and following them. The news is not good,
what people are basically saying is, why plan, if you cannot
control what is going to happen anyway. What I say to these
people is try writing a plan that is generic,
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