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Cesarean Awareness Month: The 18-Month Cry

Posted by on Apr 21, 2013 in Articles, Cesarean Awareness Month, VBAC Information | 1 comment “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...
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My Cesarean Healing: From Trauma to Self-Appreciation

Posted by on Apr 21, 2013 in Articles, VBAC Information | 2 comments 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 raising awareness surrounding the overuse of cesarean surgery in the U.S.  There are blogs, articles, radio pieces, films, round tables, and Facebook campaigns plugging the risks and...
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The Largest Women’s Rights Movement in Decades

Posted by on Aug 15, 2012 in Articles, VBAC Information | 0 comments A monumental uprising is on the horizon. Thousands of men, women and children will gather on September 3. The rallies are being hosted in over 100 major cities, coast to coast, for Improving Birth’s “National Rally for Change on Labor Day.”  Thanks to the viral nature of social media, ImprovingBirth.org has been able to organize a massive movement to bring awareness to the lack of evidence-based...
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Cervical Scar Tissue – A Cause of Preventable C-Sections

Posted by on Jul 25, 2012 in Articles, VBAC Information | 10 comments Revision, 2/14/2013 My nephew just had his sixth birthday in February. Who knew his birth would mean so much to my career as a birth professional?  It was the day I first heard the words “Cervical Scar Tissue.” How is it that I had been a doula for four years and had never heard this before? Those words changed my life. I sat down just days later and wrote a blog post. Cervical Scar...
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A Doula's Journey to Vaginal Birth after Three C-Sections

Posted by on Jun 20, 2012 in Articles, Avoiding a C-section, VBAC Information | 6 comments I was 20 when I got pregnant with my first child. I made all the typical assumptions back then. I went to my primary doctor for an OB referral. I had no idea I had a choice. I thought that I went to the OB, he would tell me all I needed to know about birth, I would take the “Lamaze” class at the hospital, and I would be on my merry way and have a baby. They talked about c-sections in that class,...
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Pushing for Your Baby, by Lamaze International

Posted by on May 23, 2012 in Articles, VBAC Information | 0 comments Lamaze International today launched an amazing video and campaign called “Push for Your Baby.”  The amount of time and energy that went into this project is evident. These are all stories that birth professionals have lived right alongside their clients. Many organizations are getting on board to make a change in our communities and question the non-medically indicated procedures...
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Cervical Scar Tissue, A Cause for Unnecessary C-Sections

Posted by on Apr 25, 2012 in VBAC Information | 4 comments By, Dawn Thompson My nephew just had his 6th birthday a few weeks ago. Who knew his birth would mean so much to my career as a birth professional. This was the day I first heard the words, Cervical Scar Tissue. How is it that I had been a doula for four years and had never heard this before? Those words changed my life. I sat down just days later and wrote a blog post. Cervical Scar Tissue...
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