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Birth Centers: Safe, Respectful Options for Birth

This morning, an important new study was published confirming the safety and cost effectiveness of birth centers as an excellent option for healthy, low-risk women. The study was conducted by the...

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A Healthy Baby Isn’t All That Matters

We hear all the time, “a healthy baby is all that matters.”  That’s simply not true—especially when, all too often, “healthy” simply means “surviving birth,” for both moms and babies.  That’s not...

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Respect in Birth: "Get Over Yourselves"

Last week, I wrote an article called “A Healthy Baby Isn’t All That Matters.”  It was about our opportunity for a higher standard for birth in the U.S.: “safe, respectful, family-centered birth,” in...

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A Year in Review – much more than an isolated problem

Happy First Birthday to Improving Birth! Since this organization began, we’ve had some tremendous successes. Nearly 10,000 of you came out for the annual awareness rally to bring attention to the cause...

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Do Women Deserve Respect in Childbirth?

Attention has focused in the last few days on a Florida mother whose doctor threatened to send police to her house to remove her if she did not report in immediately for a c-section that she’d tried to...

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Protections for mothers are under threat

        For Immediate Release March 13, 2013 Contact: Cristen Pascucci Phone: (443) 622-2892   ImprovingBirth.org and International Cesarean Awareness Network Address Threats to Rights of Pregnant...

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Legal Coercion in Maternity Care: A Doctor’s View

Nick Rubashkin, MD is a staff obstetrician and chair of the perinatal quality committee at St. Luke’s Hospital, a Sutter Health affiliate in San Francisco. He is a future Fulbright research awardee,...

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ACOG Takes a Stand on Elective Cesareans and Induction for “Big Baby”

Yesterday, the largest voluntary membership organization for ObGyns in the U.S., the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), released statements about two subjects near and dear to...

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“A Midwife Changed My Life”

Whether you choose a midwife, family doctor, or OB to attend your baby birth, your choices and your body have value.  In a country where 9 out of 10 of us receive care that is not based on best...

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Doulas: A Birth Essential

I can’t overstate the importance of experienced support during and after birth.  I try to keep my mouth shut when I hear someone say they don’t need a doula during labor or don’t have extra help for...

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A Family-Centered Cesarean: Taking Back Control of My Son’s Birth

So, what happens if you are completely committed to “going natural” and things don’t work out? How do you deal with being told, “This baby is at risk. We need to deliver via cesarean”?  All that...

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My Cesarean Healing: From Trauma to Self-Appreciation

April is Cesarean Awareness Month.  This is one woman’s story and may not reflect your experience.   Every April (Cesarean Awareness Month), it is hard not to notice the advocates working diligently at...

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Cesarean Awareness Month: The 18-Month Cry

“Empowered women don’t show up for the 18-month cry.” A powerful video story, written by Chelsea Shure of ICAN in Los Angeles, and put to video by ImprovingBirth.org’s Dawn Thompson. The post Cesarean...

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Cesarean Awareness Month: Cut, Stapled & Mended

April is Cesarean Awareness Month.  This is one woman’s story and may not reflect your experience. I’m supposed to say I’ve recovered and that the cesarean didn’t matter.  But that’s just not true....

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Selfish Women and Their Silly Birth Experiences

  This is not a post about natural birth.  Just keep reading.   When I was preparing to give birth, I saw it as a once-in-a-lifetime event and something I wanted, more than anything, to do “right.”  By...

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Listening to Mothers III Survey Reveals Need for Improvements in Information,...

ImprovingBirth.org President Dawn Thompson, Vice President Cristen Pascucci, and Secretary Rebecca Dekker RN APRN PhD collaborated on this article.  ImprovingBirth.org is a mother-run, national...

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The Business of Baby, by Jennifer Margulis

Twenty-nine years old and pregnant for the first time, Marijana Picton noticed her nausea only went away when she took long walks and ate stapci, Serbian-style salty pretzel sticks. It was 2009....

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Cut With Kindness: Coming to Terms With Mistaken Beliefs

Dawn Thompson is founder and president of ImprovingBirth.org, and has worked as a doula for over ten years–specializing in supporting women who are seeking Vaginal Birth after Cesarean. She had three...

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Arizona Midwifery Guidelines: A Chance to Do Something Great

Take a look at the awesome letter Human Rights in Childbirth sent in to Arizona! The online event for the Monday, June 2, committee meeting addressing these issues can be viewed here. Recently, some...

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Human Rights and Informed Consent in Childbirth: Arizona Edition

Yesterday, Human Rights in Childbirth (HRiC) chimed in on the controversy surrounding proposed guidelines for licensed midwives in Arizona, with a letter to the director of the state’s Health Services...

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