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Books on Cesarean Avoidance

  • The Cesarean Myth : Choosing the Best Way to Have Your Baby.
  • By Mortimer G. Rosen and Lillian Thomas
  • Immaculate Deception II : Myth, Magic & Birth
    By Suzanne Arms
  • Trust your Body! Trust your Baby!: Childbirth Wisdom and Cesarean Prevention
    By Andrea Frank Henkart
  • How to Avoid a Cesarean Section
    By Christopher Norwood
  • Open Season: A Survival Guide for Natural Childbirth and VBAC in 90’s
    By Nancy Wainer Cohen
  • Silent Knife : Cesarean Prevention and V aginal Birth after Cesarean (VBAC)
    By Nancy Wainer Cohen
  • Birth After Cesarean: The Medical Facts
    By Bruce L. Flamm
  • Natural Childbirth After Cesarean: A Practical Guide
    By Karis Crawford
  • The VBAC Companion : The Expectant Mother’s Guide to Vaginal Birth After Cesarean
    By Diana Korte
  • The Vaginal Birth After Cesarean Experience : Birth Stories by Parents and Professionals
    By Lynn Baptisti Richards
  • Vaginal Birth After Cesarean : The Smart Woman’s Guide to VBAC
    By Elizabeth Kaufmann
  • The VBAC Source Book and Teaching Kit
    By Nicette Jukelevics and Ruth Ancheta
  • Recovering from a Cesarean Section
    By Karyn L. Feiden and Manuel AlvarezObstetrics
  • Myths Versus Research Realities: A Guide to the Medical Literature
    By Henci Goer
  • The Cesarean
    by Michel Odent, M.D

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Useful Cesarean and VBAC Website Links

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Caregivers

Doula Association of Edmonton - provides information on doulas, which are experienced providers of labour support, available in your area. Research on doulas has shown that their help can reduce the chance of a Cesarean operation by fifty percent.
Phone: (780)945-8080. www.edmontondoulas.org

 

Alberta Association of Midwives - provides information on midwives available in your area. Midwives attend homebirth, hospital and birth centre births. Midwives are experts in natural birth, including VBAC, and their transfer Cesarean rate is below ten percent.
Phone: (780)425-5464. www.albertamidwives.com

 

Stony Plain Birth Centre - Capital Health Authority has granted free midwife privileges to any woman across Alberta. VBAC clients may not be accepted.  Phone: (780)963-2241.

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Birth Stories

To read about wonderful VBAC stories, Please click the link below.

 

Birth Stories

 

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