Cesarean sections
Afternoon Roundup: Wal-Mart's Wage Discrimination Problem
by Amie Newman
January 20, 2011 - 8:25pm (Print)
A $3.5 billion maternity care problem; another Catholic hospital gets to expand and limit its services to women; female domestic partners on their babies' birth certificates; and Wal-Mart's wage discrimination case.
Are California's For-Profit Hospitals Pushing C-Sections?
by Amie Newman
September 14, 2010 - 6:00am (Print)
A study shows that expectant mothers in California may face more constrained choices in childbirth depending on whether they choose a non-profit or for-profit hospital.
Time Magazine On Birth, C-Sections and the Rise of Labor Induction
by Amie Newman
August 3, 2010 - 2:58pm (Print)
The evidence continues to point to the negative impacts of unnecessary medical intervention during childbirth. Studies confirm that not only does labor induction lead to increased c-section rates but that the rate of induction is growing, to the detriment of the health of mothers and babies, as well.
ACOG Says Yes to VBACs
by Amie Newman
July 22, 2010 - 8:25am (Print)
Good news from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) yesterday. The group issued updated guidelines on vaginal birth after cesareans (VBACs), hopefully paving the way for more women to choose vaginal birth, after a previous c-section.
International Day of the Midwife
by Amie Newman
May 4, 2010 - 4:00pm (Print)
Since tomorrow, May 5, is the International Day of the Midwife, I thought it fitting to take a moment to both acknowledge the day and why it's so important to me to link discussions about midwifery and childbirth to the broader reproductive and sexual health and rights movement in the U.S.
When Sexism is Deadly
by Kathleen Reeves, RH Reality Check
July 31, 2009 - 10:37am (Print)
Indifference to maternal mortality is closely related to indifference to women’s reproductive rights.
The Connection Between American and Third World Maternity Care
reader diary by adesifeminist
April 13, 2009 - 4:39pm (Print)
Anyone whose work focuses on getting enough medical care to third world women should do it with the knowledge of the experiences of American women. Otherwise their stance becomes pro-cesarean and not pro-evidence-based-medicine. It indicates the ignorance of thinking American healthcare is the best healthcare, and promotes the least cost-effective and most inefficient model of maternity care in developing countries
Can We Please Stop Blaming Women for C-Sections?
by Jennifer Block, RH Reality Check
January 21, 2009 - 3:27pm (Print)
