Vaginal Birth After Cesarean
I believe in women. I believe in birth.
I believe in you! Have a great Vaginal Birth After Cesarean!
Websites on the Safety of VBAC:
Info on uterine rupture
www.medscape.com
http://www.plus-size-pregnancy.org
Healing After a Cesarean
http://birthrites.edsite.com.au/
ICAN chapters around the USA
http://www.ican-online.org
General Information About Cesareans and VBACs:
www.VBAC.com
Midwives Archives
http://www.gentlebirth.org/archives/icanvbac.html
International Cesarean Awareness Network
www.ican-online.org
Birth love - VBAC is Safe!
www.birthlove.com
Cesarean info in the interest of prevention
http://www.naturalchildbirth.org
Uterine exercise for a thinner uterus
Risks of Epidurals
Online Childbirth Class
Why Consider A VBAC?
A VBAC Checklist
http://www.ican-online.org
Another checklist from ICAN
Things You Can Do to Avoid an Unnecessary Cesarean
VBAC and Induction: Help or Hindrance?
Pushing positions
Elective Cesarean is Riskier than VBAC for Moms and Babies
More about herpes and birth
Avoiding Tears
Get through Childbirth In One Piece!
Optimal Fetal Positioning
Correcting your babies position
Email support list for home birth after cesarean
Infant Mortality, VBAC and Cesarean Rates
VBAC: Primer for Success
Care in Normal Birth
Interpretation of the Electronic Fetal Heart Rate during Labor
The Pink Kit
www.activebirthcentre.com
The Active Birth Center, the body knows best how to birth.
Research tools – be a truly informed consumer
http://www.maternitycoalition.org
Choices for Childbirth. An independent information group supporting women & their partners to make informed choices about the birth of their babies. Contact Di for more information email: diddles@aardvark.net.au
http://www.maternitywise.org
http://www.acegraphics.com.au/articles/maggie01.html
Maggie Banks on reclaiming midwifery.
http://www.birthinternational.com.au
Provides support and resources for midwives, childbirth educators and expectant parents.
http://www.birthingalternatives.com
Information, resources and support for empowering child birth. A site for parents and alternative birth professionals. Links to Ina May Gaskin’s work.
http://www.birthingthefuture.com
www.bmj.com
British Medical Journal. Free electronic subscription to your choice of articles.
www.capersbookstore.com.au
Books for parents, midwives, doulas, birth attendants on health, birth and related topics. Also has an online forum.
www.aims.org.uk
Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services... at the forefront of the childbirth movement for more than forty years. Working towards normal birth, providing independent support and information about maternity choices and raising awareness of current research on childbirth and related issues. Database of articles on all aspects of pregnancy and birth.
www.maternitywise.org
Maternity Wise is the US Maternity Center Association's long-term national program to promote evidence-based maternity care. "Evidence-based maternity care" means using the best research about the safety and effectiveness of specific tests, treatments, and other interventions to help guide maternity care decisions.
www.childbirth.org/section/ICAN.html
International Cesarean Awareness Network & VBAC Information This is a collection of fact sheets and information put out by the International Cesarean Awareness Network (ICAN) and other sources. Information includes how to prevent an unnecessary cesarean, Vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC), how to find resources in your community, information about ICAN, and how to become a part of ICAN.
Birth Educators, Activists and Midwives
http://www.freestone.org
Jeannine Parvati Baker and Family invites you to know conscious and healthy parenting as a spiritual path. This web site explores and affirms the value of Conscious Conception, Prenatal Yoga, Free Birth, Gentle Parenting, Home Education, Lotus Birth, Home Business, Herbal Health, Gender Balance, Eco-Activism, Earth Birth and much more.
http://www.glorialemay.com
http://www.hencigoer.com
Ina May Gaskin – writer, activist, innovator, and midwife.
http://www.inamay.com
International links to training for doulas and birth educators.
http://www.childbirthinternational.com
Pioneering and influential birth information.
www.sheilakitzinger.com
Lina's Clerke’s site- birth educator.
www.wonderfulbirth.com
Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond web site run by independent midwife, Jane Palmer. Loads of great pregnancy info and links.
http://www.pregnancy.com.au
Essays by Sarah Buckley, pro-natural birth and parenting doctor.
http://www.womenofspirit.asn.au/
Michel Odent’s site
http://www.birthworks.org
Midwives in Private Practice
http://www.maternitycoalition.org.au
Rhea Dempsey, birth educator and attendant.
http://www.birthingwisdom.com.au/home.html
Janet Balaska’s Active Birth site.
www.activebirthcentre.com
ACE – Associates in Childbirth Education.
www.acegraphics.com.au/index.html
Water birth
Cesarean and Traumatic Birth Support ~A site for women who want to truly heal spiritually and emotionally after a difficult birth experience
http://www.eheart.com/cesarean/index.html
A site by, for and about those born by c-section
http://www.postpartum.net
International site on postnatal depression and postpartum depression.
http://www.tabs.org.nz
A site on traumatic birth and recovery – PTSD and PPD.
www.egroups.com/community/HBAC
Online support for home birth after cesarean birth
Kitzinger on birth trauma
http://www.sheilakitzinger.com/BirthCrisis.htm
A U.S. site devoted to improving women’s experience in birth. An excellent site for people who have experienced birth trauma.
Petition and declaration on the rights of birthing women.
http://www.birthlove.com
Healing the Temple Door – a guided meditation on healing from rape which can also be excellently employed in recovering from birth trauma.
http://www.yoni.com/healerf/templedoor.shtml
There’s a great site that pulls together the international scholarly literature on VBAC by year and provides not only the citation information but a short summary in "lay terms". It's a wonderful tool when you need some "hard science" to share with a doctor or relative...
http://www.worldserver.com
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Search the above sites for articles on uterine scar studies:
http://www.mothering.com/articles/pregnancy_birth/cesarean_vbac/cesarean_vbac.html
JOIN ICAN TODAY!!!
http://www.ican-online.org/
I believe in women. I believe in our bodies. I believe in birth.
Have a great Vaginal Birth After Cesarean!