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An OB you like or who makes you comfortable isn’t enough

Many women do not interview OBs/midwives when selecting their VBAC care provider.  They either stay with the GYN who has been providing their well-woman care or the same OB who performed their cesarean because they like them.

Women they really believe that if they are good patients, if they are friendly, if they don’t [...]

August 26th, 2009 | Category: Birth stories, Grief, Hospital birth, Inductions, Letter Templates, Missouri, Pain Medications, Repeat Cesarean, VBAC | 24 comments

Coping with miscarriage II

Of all the people coming to this site, it is the women who come searching for information on miscarriage and grief that just really break my heart.  There are so many of us, so I wanted to bring attention to what Candice wrote as well as my response.

Candice left this comment:

My husband and [...]

January 16th, 2009 | Category: Grief, Miscarriage | 2 comments

The emotional & physical pain that cesareans cause

This is a sad post I’m sharing with permission from a new member of the ICAN email support group.  I’m hoping this post will inspire that person who is ‘on the fence’ between VBAC and repeat cesarean to make the extra effort and fight for that VBAC rather than mourn yet another cesarean.

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February 25th, 2008 | Category: Birth stories, Cesarean section, Grief, Hospital birth, Pain, Regretting a cesarean, Repeat Cesarean | 2 comments

Coping with Miscarriage

I had completely forgotten that I wrote this piece until a month ago.

I was with a dear friend who is getting married and we were visiting with her mom.  We were talking about birth and her mom asked me, "You had a miscarriage, didn’t you?"

The question kind of caught me off guard.  Funny [...]

February 6th, 2008 | Category: Grief, Miscarriage | 7 comments