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Interview with Ina May Gaskin

September 1, 2011   Posted in: Birthing Options, Childbirth Education  Comments Closed

VBAC Update

 
CIMS Urges ACOG to Remove Additional Barriers to VBAC 
Join us in asking ACOG to take steps that will increase VBAC, reduce cesareans, and ultimately avoid unnecessary harms to mothers and infants.
 In a Sept. 9, 2010, letter to Dr. Richard Waldman, president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), CIMS and 18 co-signing organizations [...]

September 29, 2010   Posted in: Birthing Options  Comments Closed

Home Birth Misrepresented

The following is from the Midwives Alliance of North America:
One Voice
Open Letter to the Today Show
You were probably as outraged as we were to see the NBC’s Today Show on September 11th entitled “The Perils of Home Birth.”  It was biased, inaccurate, and sensational, depicting women who choose home births as self-indulgent by likening home [...]

September 30, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Homebirth  Comments Closed