Birth Forecast: Cloudy w/ a Chance of Cesarean

A New Day...

2012-05-29T01:45:00.002-07:00

...a fresh beginning. As I'd said before, I was (am) hoping to get this blog more active. Well, here I am again, hoping... starting w/ my new Blog Charter (check out my new tab..woohoo, getting nifty)... and revamping our ICAN chapter here locally and helping prepare for the 2013 Conference , and posting posting posting. I just signed on to be an affiliate for The Pink Kit ...because I believe in it very strongly...it is tied to my last and final birth attempt, with Noah....and tied to the only shred of belief I had left in me....meaning belief in myself and my body, not of my God. Or maybe it was belief in his creation...in His power, that wavered. I'm not sure. But, when everyone else said "no"...the Pink Kit said "yes." And I still hold on to that. So (again) ...stay tuned. :)

Extreme Spring Sweepstakes | Home Educating Association

2012-03-13T13:03:00.002-07:00

Extreme Spring Sweepstakes | Home Educating Association

oops this was supposed to post to my other blog LOL oh well :P

Hoping...

2012-03-06T23:16:00.002-08:00

to get back to this blog here soon....stay tuned...

AWESOME post on BirthACtion Blog

2010-04-05T23:36:00.000-07:00

really think about this....think long and hard.....because it's true...and if we continue to deny it's true, we will see more moms harmed, more moms dying....

http://tinyurl.com/yj6auba

Alabama Midwifery BILL

2010-04-01T12:06:00.001-07:00

READ it here: http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2010rs/bills/sb414.htm

call your senators and ask them to vote in support of it!! Don't know how? Ask me!

UPDATE: As you may or may not know, this didn't work out last year...so it's been in the works again this year...will keep you posted.

don't know

2010-04-01T10:26:00.000-07:00

need to collect my thoughts on mom logic's post: http://www.momlogic.com/2010/04/c-sections_hit_historic_high_-will_obamas_plan_make_a_difference.php

it's more complicated than just that women and doctor's can petition ins. companies now.... it's going to take changing the doctors' PERCEIVED risk of getting sued, and letting them know that whatever that PERCEIVED risk is, it's not worth destroying womens' bodies and lives and babies over. well, she briefly mentions boardrooms and lawsuits... it's complicated, though unnecessarily so.

Are you BRAINED?

2010-03-29T22:07:00.001-07:00

if not, get BRAINED!!! :) lol

http://www.lucina.ca/handouts/BRAINED.pdf

PET PEEVE

2010-03-29T20:45:00.000-07:00

Grrrr! Vent/Rant:

News Flash! America! Society! Listen up! No one, I repeat, NO ONE "delivers" a baby other than the mother of that baby!!!! Do you comprehendo?? A doctor does not deliver a baby. A nurse does not. A midwife does not. The baby daddy does not. MOM DOES. That baby comes forth from HER Vagina. Okay....I admit, I have issues with cesareans....and it would seem that yes, a doctor must "deliver" the baby if it is a cesarean. I mean he's doing the cutting, he's the surgeon. But still it irks me. The mother is still spewing (for lack of a better word?) forth a life out of her body. It is from her guts, her blood and lifeline, that new life springs forth. Okay, not that she was alone in the creation, but you know what I mean. IF a doctor truly saved mom and/or baby's life due to the surgery or some intervention, then kudos to him! I'm all for that. Truly. But I still gotta give mom her glory...most of the credit. And ESPECIALLY do not tell me that they "delivered" a baby out of that mother's vagina. BULLfreakin' CRAP!

What spurred this rant? A fellow birth list member posted about a card she received in the mail in honor of her child's first birthday. It was from her OB, which on the outset sounds really nice. Gee, what a thoughtful and personable doctor, wish I knew more like that! But when she opened the card, it gave happy birthday wishes from "The Doctor who delivered him." UGH!

It sounds so boastful and prideful. And why not? Our Culture has come to believe this is the way it is. Doctors deliver the babies. Without them we would die. They are gods. Sigh. And maybe it is a subconscious thing, mixed in with the reasons behind the rise in cesareans over the years. Maybe doctors so want to be in charge and in control, and "deliver" babies, that they make that happen, ....more times than than ever should. Cesareans. Blech. Special Delivery. Sigh.

Whether it's a female or male doc, it is all too paternalistic. The whole process is. Wait, not...not paternalistic....PATRONIZING!! I'm so sick of it.

I am not a "hippie" in the classic sense. I AM a free thinker though. I have educated myself in most things birth. It can be done very easily. We don't have to sit and let everything be "done" to us. WE WOMEN GIVE BIRTH. WE FEEL. WE BREATHE. and we must learn to use our VOICE. STAND AND DELIVER! WE ARE WOMEN! (and I hear in the background of my mind: I AM WOMAN, HEAR ME ROAR!!!!!! )

dragging butt

2010-03-28T21:03:00.000-07:00

...on getting this blog up and running, ...missed some important stuff to blog about....namely, the NIH consensus statement on VBAC....the highlight being the debate stirred when this happened: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCZY_AZQMbw (forgive me, not good at the hyperlinking yet) Yeh, that's my friend Shannon :) of BirthAction ( www.birthaction.org ) ....she's awesome... so....there was much debate stirred up, thankfully....and maybe just maybe if I get my butt really in gear, I'll post more on the above, with some various blog posts and links.

also some awesome blog posts from OB RN friend, Jer: http://jerwillow.blogspot.com/
and also midwife-in-training and almost full term friend Jessica: http://jessica-anne010.livejournal.com/

the other thing coming up is Cesarean Awareness Month in April.....and in honor of it, I've been asked to speak at our local Birth Network meetings that month on cesarean prevention and VBAC prep. Nervous, but excited. AND...I'll be starting the Wiregrass chapter of ICAN :) woohooo...big things coming....so stay tuned.

Testing, Testing, 1, 2...

2009-11-12T10:33:00.000-08:00

Hello! This is my new Birth Blog... charter post to come. Just testing, thanks!