Your Hospital Choice Significantly Influences Your Cesarean Risk

Image from Consumer Reports  Consumer Reports has a new report out for Cesarean Awareness Month, focusing on the variations in cesarean rat...

Estimating Fetal Weight Increases Risk for Cesarean

Think twice about doing ultrasounds to estimate fetal weight before birth. In this very large, multi-center study, just the act of estimatin...

Estimating Fetal Weight Increases Cesarean Risk

Image from Wikimedia One intervention often seen in pregnancies these days is estimation of fetal weight. But does this improve outcomes? Bi...

Placenta Accreta Rates Reflect High Cesarean Rates and VBAC Bans

October is Accreta Awareness Month . The International Cesarean Awareness Network (ICAN) is featuring Accreta Awareness as part of its focus...

Stop Blaming Women for Cesarean Rates

For many years, the cesarean rate rose, virtually unchecked. When this was questioned, care providers resorted to the old mantra of blaming ...

Reducing Failure-to-Wait Cesareans

A while ago, experts developed guidelines to help reduce "failure to progress" cesareans, called the Consensus for the Safe Preve...

Seventh Annual Turkey Awards: Astronomical Cesarean Rates in Women of Size

Well, it's long past time for our seventh annual HELLO MIDWIFE's Turkey Awards! Somehow 2014 got away from me, so we are doing this ...