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Hospitals Can Charge To Let You Hold Your Baby: Here’s Why

November 15, 2016 By Lauren McClain

Hospitals Can Charge To Let You Hold Your Baby: Here’s Why

Part I: Skin-to-Skin, Mama-to-Mama When you can successfully charge a person money to hold their own baby, you have really made it in the world of business. You have probably heard about the couple who found a $39 charge for skin-to-skin time in the operating room on their bill. It’s an evil genius model, but it’s […]

Filed Under: Birth Science, Birthing Rights and Choices, Cesarean

Sacrificial Birth

February 4, 2014 By Lauren McClain

Sacrificial BirthPerhaps you've seen the empathy video circulating the web; the one where the sad fox is in a hole and some well-intentioned mammal comes along, pokes her head down the hole and asks if the sad one wants a sandwich? Great video. One of the things the video emphasizes is the unfeeling way we have [...]

Filed Under: Birthing Rights and Choices, Breech, Cesarean, VBAC

Birth Of A Breech & Head-Down baby

January 27, 2014 By Lauren McClain

Birth Of A Breech & Head-Down baby

Elisabeth’s first baby was breech, and mybreechbaby’s first birth story. She recently had her second baby (a vbac), and here she shares some of her story. She has experienced labor and pushing with both a breech and head-down baby, so I wanted to know more of her experiences and thoughts.  Tell us briefly about your breech birth. […]

Filed Under: Breech, Cesarean, VBAC

Breech Journey With A Fifth Baby

January 22, 2014 By Lauren McClain

Breech Journey With A Fifth Baby

Here is a friend of mine who recently gave birth to her footling breech. I hope I have not been spreading breech vibes to babies around me!  She wrote her birth story because breech mamas need more people who can hear them and understand them. Those of you who planned or wanted natural births but […]

Filed Under: Breech, Cesarean

When you fail at birth

November 14, 2013 By Lauren McClain

When you fail at birth

Maria had a successful VBAC! Awesome! Bekka didn’t. Bekka tried but had an unsuccessful VBAC. Her birth was a failure. Bekka failed. Although “successful VBAC” or “successful natural birth” or even “71% of women who planned it were successful in having a vaginal breech birth” sounds like positive language, it’s actually fraught with emotionally damaging […]

Filed Under: Cesarean, Postpartum, Vaginal Breech Birth, VBAC

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