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V is also for:
Vacuum extraction: Sometimes, if the baby is not coming through the birth canal as expected and there seems that there may be problems, doctors may choose to use suction to help guide the baby’s head out of the birth canal
Vagina: The canal from the cervix down.
VBAC: Vaginal birth after C-section
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Don’t forget:
Baby Emergency Handbook – Review and give away
The give-away ends August 7, 2008.

Another weekly round up for you. There’s a great variety of posts this week:

Mom and babies playing in the sprinkler – non human!
Cat fight over birthing techniques and safety
New mass market target – your baby’s umbilical cord blood
The mothering instinct of animals
Radio show: Kosher and Halal vitamins for pregnancy
Pregnancy after infertility
Ectopic pregnancies
Eating disorders and pregnancy
VBAC: vaginal birth after Caesarian – worth the risk?
Pregnancy myths – busted!

Do any of these surprise you?
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Many women who have C-sections feel that they would like having a VBAC, or vaginal birth after C-section. In many cases, this is possible, providing that the pregnancy following the C-section goes smoothly and the labor is going well.
Unfortunately, because of the ever increasing risk of being sued, many doctors don’t want to do VBACs and – some are more economically minded and prefer to know when they need to be around and they can time C-sections much more easily. For this reason, even without a medical reason for discouraging VBACs, some doctors are just refusing to do them.
I found …read more

In mid-June, I posted on how Ricki Lake was being taken to task by the American Medical Association (AMA) about her stance on home birth (Tsk, tsk Ricki Lake).
Meredith, our resident doula (Womb Within has its very own doula) sent me this “President’s editorial” fro the Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA). I am publishing it with permission. It’s a very interesting answer to the AMA’s close-minded point of view.
AMA Seeks to Deny Women Choices in Childbirth
*President’s Editorial *
July 11, 2008
Geradine Simkins
president@mana.org
888-923-MANA (6262)
info@mana.org
http://www.mana.org
One wonders what process the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates used to determine that *”Resolution 205 …read more

It used to be “once a C-section, always a C-section,” but this way of thinking was challenged quite a while ago and is leading to many women have vaginal births after Caesarians, or VBACs.
Back in the day when C-sections were done only one way – a large incision right down the front, VBACs couldn’t have been attempted. The risk of rupturing the uterus during labor would have been way too high, but now with the better methods of C-sections, it’s not an impossibility for many women. Of course, in the event of life-threatening emergencies, such big incisions still could be …read more