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VBAC Class Advanced Notice Waiting List

Do you live in Southern California?

Are you interested in attending an upcoming VBAC Class?

Would you like advanced notice of dates and preferred registration of future classes?

If so, please email me at register at vbacfacts dot com and you will receive advance notice of dates as well as be able to register for [...]

Open House for New S. Calif Birth Center

There is a new birth center in town run by Beach Cities Midwifery.

I am excited because we need more out-of-hospital options.  If more women hire midwives for their first pregnancy, there will be fewer primary cesareans.

They are having an Open House in Saturday July 11, 2009 from 10am to 4pm. 

Activities include:

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Pregnancy & New Baby Event in Fullerton July 18, 2009

I’ll be there!  Hope you can make it!

Download the flyer.

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Pregnancy &

New Baby Event

 

What:Join us as we gather all of the experts [...]

Monterey County hospital reverses VBAC ban

This is great!  A hospital reversing their VBAC ban!  I really wish articles like this would talk less about "the experience" and more about the life-long benefits of vaginal birth for mom and baby. 

May 28, 2009

Natural birth after c-section possible at NMC again

By Leslie Griffy lgriffy@thecalifornian.com

VBAC & Cesarean Rates of California Hospitals, 2007

This information is so important for any woman seeking VBAC.  It’s not enough that your hospital “allows” VBAC.  In order to see how supportive that hospital is of vaginal birth, you need to know what their VBAC rate is in addition to their primary CS rate.  Be sure to read, “Why if your hospital ‘allows’ [...]

Follow Up on the VBAC Class on 3/20/09 & more classes in the future

I so enjoyed the VBAC Class last Friday and hope those who attended did too.  A special thanks to those who drove over an hour to come.  While scheduled to be an hour, my presentation ended up being 2.5 hours!  After cutting it down for a couple weeks, I couldn’t cut any more.  I apologize [...]

Don’t need to be pregnant for the VBAC Class this Friday 3/20

The VBAC Class is this Friday and I’m so excited!  We are looking forward to a great turnout and we will be discussing a lot of new information & recent studies that I haven’t had a chance to put on the site yet.

I’ve received a couple emails from women saying that they aren’t pregnant [...]

Is VBAC Illegal? Is homebirth illegal?

This post was originally published June 14, 2008.  It has since been updated to include more information on the technicalities of homebirth.

I have incredible software on this website called StatCounter and through that I’m able to see what search engine queries bring people to the site.

I’ve noticed more queries asking if VBAC is [...]

Southern California VBAC Class

Time and Place

Date: Friday, March 20, 2009

Time: 7:00pm – 8:30pm

Location: Oaks House

Street: 13770 Oaks Ave

City/Town: Chino, CA View Map Contact Info

Phone: (909)464-0974  Oaks House

Email: info at vbacfacts dot com Description

The information is geared towards women with prior cesareans, currently pregnant or not, who are interested in [...]

I’m pregnant and want a VBAC, what do I do?

I recently received this comment.

Hi…thank you so much for your site! Very informative. I live in Glendale and I had a c-section last year with my first daughter. I went in to be induced even though I wasn’t looking forward to it. No contractions. No mucus plug. No water broken. I guess I just [...]

Come to the Oaks House Open House and Meet Me!

If you are in Southern California this weekend, come support a local midwife, explore her birth center, watch Orgasmic Birth, and meet me!  I’ll be there the whole time, so if you want to chat, have questions, or just need some encouragement, come on by!

You will be able to tell who I am easily.  [...]

List of midwives and birth centers in Southern California

Looking to have a homebirth or birth center birth in Southern California? 

This is the most complete list I’ve ever seen. 

Not all of these midwives attend VBAC. 

Thank you to Sherry Rumsey for putting this together.

From Sherry:

I would like to ensure that the information being provided is accurate.  If you are a [...]

Support hospital birth with CNMs in Southern California – Petition & Meeting

Download the petition supporting the option to have Nurse-midwives attend births in Orange County Hospitals, get 25 people to sign and bring it to the September 23 meeting at UCI.

CABO presents: Town Hall MeetingPalo Verde CommonsUniversity of California, IrvineIrvine, CA 92697 September 23rd at 6:30pm

Also download PRINTABLE Town Hall Meeting Flyer and [...]

Researching Slope Ground Cover & Lawn Alternatives in Southern California

I hate lawns.

I don’t like watering them.  Yes, we have sprinklers but I just think it is such a waste of water to try to force a lawn to grow and stay green where it is over 90 degrees for at least three months out of the year.

I don’t like mowing them and [...]

VBAC Ban Protest at Cottage Hospital

Cottage Hospital must think we are idiots.

They claim there is no “VBAC ban,” but if you look at their VBAC & CS rates, you will see that three women, three, had VBACs there in 2006, which gave them a VBAC rate of 0.9%.  That means that 99.1% of women have repeat cesareans at Cottage [...]