VBAC Facts » Grief http://vbacfacts.com Vaginal birth after cesarean? Don't freak, know the facts. Mon, 21 May 2012 05:03:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 An OB you like or who makes you comfortable isn’t enough http://vbacfacts.com/2009/08/26/an-ob-you-like-or-who-makes-you-comfortable-isnt-enough/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=an-ob-you-like-or-who-makes-you-comfortable-isnt-enough http://vbacfacts.com/2009/08/26/an-ob-you-like-or-who-makes-you-comfortable-isnt-enough/#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:00:40 +0000 Jen Kamel http://vbacfacts.com/2009/08/26/an-ob-you-like-or-who-makes-you-comfortable-isnt-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 [...]]]> http://vbacfacts.com/2009/08/26/an-ob-you-like-or-who-makes-you-comfortable-isnt-enough/feed/ 24 Coping with miscarriage II http://vbacfacts.com/2009/01/16/coping-with-miscarriage-ii/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=coping-with-miscarriage-ii http://vbacfacts.com/2009/01/16/coping-with-miscarriage-ii/#comments Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:27:53 +0000 Jen Kamel http://vbacfacts.com/2009/01/17/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 [...]]]> http://vbacfacts.com/2009/01/16/coping-with-miscarriage-ii/feed/ 4 The emotional & physical pain that cesareans cause http://vbacfacts.com/2008/02/25/the-emotional-physical-pain-that-cesareans-cause/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-emotional-physical-pain-that-cesareans-cause http://vbacfacts.com/2008/02/25/the-emotional-physical-pain-that-cesareans-cause/#comments Tue, 26 Feb 2008 01:59:16 +0000 Jen Kamel http://vbacfacts.com/2008/02/25/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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I [...]]]> http://vbacfacts.com/2008/02/25/the-emotional-physical-pain-that-cesareans-cause/feed/ 2 Coping with Miscarriage http://vbacfacts.com/2008/02/06/coping-with-miscarriage/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=coping-with-miscarriage http://vbacfacts.com/2008/02/06/coping-with-miscarriage/#comments Thu, 07 Feb 2008 07:08:55 +0000 Jen Kamel http://vbacfacts.com/2008/02/06/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?"

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