On this website you will be able to access up-to-date and evidence-based information and resources about caesareans and birth after caesareans, links to support groups around the country, information on workshops and antenatal courses relevant to caesareans or vaginal birth after caesarean (VBAC), and information on issues related to maternity services for women who are planning a caesarean, or planning to VBAC.
Maternity units 'herding yards'
Maternity units 'herding yards'
Julia Medew
February 20, 2009
VICTORIAN maternity units are so stretched they resemble "herding yards" where women are denied options and privacy, an umbrella group of organisations concerned with birth and post-natal care has told the Government.
In a submission to the Victorian parliamentary inquiry into hospital performance data, the Maternity Coalition said women's care in Victoria had turned into "a gamble based on the practitioner they encounter", with many subjected to interventions they do not want....
http://www.theage.com.au/national/maternity-units-herding-yards-20090219...
Birthtalk's Path To a Better Birth Antenatal Course starts Feb 19
Birthtalk’s “Path To a Better Birth”TM Antenatal Course starts next Thursday Feb 19.
Enrolments Now Open!
You can attend casually, or pay up front for the entire course (6 sessions).
Women aren't 'electing' to put babies at risk
Women aren't 'electing' to put babies at risk
- Jennifer Block
COMMENT
MOST of us first learn the word "elective" in school, when we find ourselves with the new-found freedom to take a course like music theory or sculpture. Elective implies freely chosen, life-enhancing. Laser eye-surgery is elective. Tattoos are elective. But the vast majority of so-called elective caesarean sections are not, and it is inappropriate and disingenuous to call them so in medical literature — as did the recent study in last month's New England Journal of Medicine: "Timing of elective repeat caesarean delivery at term and neonatal outcomes."
http://www.theage.com.au/world/women-arent-electing-to-put-babies-at-ris...
Birthtalk VBAC antenatal course starts Feb 5
"Thinking of VBAC (Vaginal Birth After Caesarean) : the stats, the facts, and a "big picture" understanding of your options"
(This meeting is the first session of our VBAC Course – it may be attended casually, or as part of the full 8 session course.)
***Meeting Overview***
Birthtalk will present a “big picture view” of VBAC & caesareans - a perspective that can be hard to obtain elsewhere.
"Birth as We Know It" screening with film maker Elena Tonetti at Griffith University
'Birth As We Know It' ( www.birthasweknowit.com )
Venue: Griffith University Southbank (full details available on the Yogababy website).
Date: 24th February
Time: 6:15pm
Event: CEA Childbirth Choices Seminar March 7, 2009
Due to continued demand The Childbirth Education Association
(Brisbane) is proud to announce the first Childbirth Choices
Information Seminar for 2009:
Saturday 7 March 2009
Community Meeting Room
Garden City Library,
Garden City Shopping Centre, Kessels Rd, Mount Gravatt.
This seminar presents essential information about early choices in
birth, for southside residents, building upon the success of the 2008
Welcome to the new CANA website
Welcome to our new website. We still have a few bugs to iron out but we hope you find this new format more user-friendly. Please email us at info@canaustralia.net if you have any suggestions or problems. We'd love to get this website working perfectly. If you see any links that are suspicious, please also let us know.
Warm regards,
The CANA Team
'Needless' birth induction fears
Emma Wilkinson Health reporter, BBC News Concerns have been raised about pregnant women being induced "unnecessarily", after a Scottish audit of 17,000 births. In more than a quarter of cases, researchers could not find a medical or other explanation for the procedure. The Aberdeen University team said in the Journal of Public Health that rates of obstetric intervention were rising... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7833058.stm
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