“Here’s to the friends who come together

To share the search to know

To you I say hello forever

Love does not end, but it grows”

Hello Forever by Karen Riem

 

*LINKS*

Best places to start:

http://www.caesarean.org.uk/

http://www.aims.org.uk/

http://www.caesarean.org.uk/articles/VBACOnWhoseTerms.html

http://www.radmid.demon.co.uk/vbac.htm

http://www.rcog.org.uk/files/rcog-corp/GTG4511022011.pdf (RCOG VBAC guidelines)

 

Debbie Chippington Derrick’s recent Presentation on Natural Birth after

Caesarean:

http://caesarean.org.uk/presentations/NaturalBirthAfterCaesarean.html

Silent Knife: A book you MUST buy and read:

http://tinyurl.com/2mbhn5 but not necessarily from that site 😉

Another great book, Spiritual Midwifery:

http://tinyurl.com/ozs4u

http://www.inamay.com/books.php

If you have trouble coming to terms with your previous CS:

http://www.plus-size-pregnancy.org/CSANDVBAC/csemotionalrecov.htm

http://www.birthtraumaassociation.org.uk/

http://www.tabs.org.nz/

http://tinyurl.com/5gscd   “You should be grateful”

http://www.sheilakitzinger.com/ArticlesBySheila/BadBirthHaunts.htm

A Relevant Book Review: http://www.birthpsychology.com/healing/breview11.html

and another brief overview: http://tinyurl.com/p6cto

Info about how to obtain your previous Birth notes (see also TIPS at

bottom of post):

http://www.nhs.uk/chq/pages/1309.aspx?categoryid=68

Mary Cronk’s scar monitoring procedures:

http://www.caesarean.org.uk/articles/VBACScarMonitoring.html

Scar pain during labour (will try to find suitable links to add also):

Email me and I shall pass on a good description from someone who has

experienced this and had a HWBAC nevertheless!

For those attempting a VBA2C:

http://www.homebirth.org.uk/vba2c.htm

http://www.plus-size-pregnancy.org/CSANDVBAC/vbac_after_2_cs.htm

http://www.plus-size-pregnancy.org/CSANDVBAC/VBA2Cstories.htm

And a birth story: http://www.homebirth.org.uk/bernadette.htm

http://www.caesarean.org.uk/articles/ElectiveSection.html

And risks of UR with VBA2C or more:

http://medicalcenter.osu.edu/mediaroom/press/article.cfm?ID=2835&i=17

4 links about pushing I wish I’d known about:

http://www.birthinternational.com/diary/archives/000558.html

http://www.birthpsychology.com/messages/push/push.html

http://www.midwiferytoday.com/articles/pushing.asp

Birth Without Active Pushing

http://www.harcourt-international.com/e-books/pdf/465.pdf

 

Optimal Foetal Positioning:

http://www.homebirth.org.uk/ofp.htm

Twin VBAC:

http://www.homebirth.org.uk/vbactwins.htm

http://www.radmid.demon.co.uk/twinbirth.htm

OK so it’s on Homebirth site but I thinks it’s relevant. Overdue:

http://www.homebirth.org.uk/overdue.htm

Also: http://www.infochoice.org/ic/ic.nsf/icy/12?OpenDocument

To scan or not to scan:

http://www.homebirth.org.uk/big.htm#2

Just say NO to induction:

http://www.birthrites.org/inductionRisks.html

http://www.kentmidwiferypractice.co.uk/induction.htm

http://www.radmid.demon.co.uk/induction.htm

http://www.mother-care.ca/bishop.htm

Natural Induction methods:

http://www.lifepassages.net/NaturalInduction.html

Perineal Massage:

http://www.birthingnaturally.net/cn/technique/perineal.html

Early Labour Mistakes:

http://www.birthingnaturally.net/birth/progress/elmistake.html

The most recent Cochrane Review

Continuous cardiotocography (CTG) as a form of electronic fetal monitoring

(EFM) for fetal assessment during labour:

http://www.mrw.interscience.wiley.com/cochrane/clsysrev/articles/CD006066/frame.html

When trying to argue your case AGAINST monitoring:

http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/322/7300/1436

http://tinyurl.com/l4s9r

Birth plan inspiration:

http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/caressa/common/birthplan.htm

The Third stage:

http://www.homebirth.org.uk/thirdstage.htm

http://tinyurl.com/3cv7z9

http://www.cordclamp.com/

If you need to make a complaint about your Maternity care:

http://www.aims.org.uk/complaint.htm

And relative risks of VBAC  :-):

http://www.gentlebirth.org/archives/vbacrisk.html

Epidural anesthesia risk chart:

http://www.kimjames.net/Labor%20Side%20Effects.htm

What you need to know about midwives and homebirth:

http://www.nmc-uk.org/aFrameDisplay.aspx?DocumentID=1446

A web site where you can download 21 leaflets about various aspects of pg,

labour and delivery:

http://www.infochoice.org/ic/ic.nsf/welcome_consumer?openform

Shoulder Dystocia, a very long link to read through with links at the bottom:

http://www.radmid.demon.co.uk/shoulders.htm

If you suffer from SPD:

http://www.plus-size-pregnancy.org/pubicpain.htm

http://www.pelvicpartnership.org.uk/index2.html

What about slow and/or long labour:

http://www.birthingnaturally.net/birth/progress/alslow.html

http://www.rcmnormalbirth.org.uk/default.asp?sID=1103622088724

Gestational Diabetes:

http://www.plus-size-pregnancy.org/gd/gd_index.html

Birth stories!!!:

http://www.vbac.co.uk/stories/

An outdoor birth!:

http://rachyllgyne.tripod.com/thebirthofgreyforestwalt/index.html

Runa’s Birth (a homebirth), a book to read to, and discuss with, your

older child:

http://tinyurl.com/rzxno

or Hello Baby by Jenni Overend: http://tinyurl.com/yg28qv

 

Fibroids:

http://www.radmid.demon.co.uk/fibroid.htm

(which has lots more links at the bottom) and

http://www.fibroidnetworkonline.com/index.php

 

Some info from Lamaze:

http://www.lamaze.org/institute/about/statements.asp 

10 Month Mammas!:  UNFORTUNATLEY BIRTHLOVE.COM NO LONGER EXISTS. I WILL BE TRYING TO FIND SIMILAR INFO TO REPLACE THIS LINK. WATCH THIS SPACE

http://www.birthlove.com/free/ten_month_mama.html

 

So baby’s not in the best position:

http://www.spinningbabies.com/

http://www.homebirth.org.uk/ofp.htm

http://www.gentlebirth.org/archives/position.html

If baby is Breech:

http://www.radmid.demon.co.uk/Skills.htm

http://www.breechbabies.com/contents.htm

http://www.birthinternational.com/articles/andrea13.html

http://www.mother-care.ca/breech.htm

http://www.moondragon.org/obgyn/pregnancy/breech.html

Optimal Foetal Positioning:

http://www.homebirth.org.uk/ofp.htm

If you want to find a Doula:

http://www.doula.org.uk/

http://www.douladirectory.co.uk/

A French site on Doulas:

http://www.doulas.info/english.php

And one for  Doulas in Austria:

http://www.doula.at/index.php

 

If you have Group B Strep:

http://www.gbss.org.uk/

…and want to stay at home:

http://www.homebirth.org.uk/gbs.htm

 

Polyhydramnios:

http://www.babycentre.co.uk/pregnancy/complications/apolyhydramnios/

http://www.gentlebirth.org/archives/polyhydr.html

http://www.homebirth.org.uk/htwostories.htm

 

When to have another baby:

http://www.caesarean.org.uk/FAQ.html#preGap

A MUST for everyone, how I’d prefer to have a CS:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/family/story/0,,1656246,00.html

Having difficulty deciding between VBAC and elCS:

http://www.childbirthconnection.org/article.asp?ClickedLink=274&ck=10168&area=27

 

NLH – Women’s Health – Professor David James: NICE/NCCWCH Caesarean

Section Guideline

http://tinyurl.com/m9dmo

 

Hypnobirthing:

http://www.hypnobirthing.co.uk/

Hypnosis:

http://www.homebirth.org.uk/hypnosis.htm

 

Milk Banking;

http://www.ukamb.org/about.htm

And a way to find out what’s local to you!:

http://www.drfoster.co.uk/localservices/birthGuide.asp

 

A British Independent Midwife:

http://www.marycronkmidwiferyservices.co.uk/

 

If only these American ladies were your MW:

http://www.sheilakitzinger.com/

http://www.inamay.com/

http://www.glorialemay.com/

 

Pelvises I have known and loved By Gloria Lemay:

http://tinyurl.com/javu6

A great site from a lady in Glasgow who says everything we believe in:

http://www.yourbabyyourbody.co.uk/default.html

VBAC in France, AVAC!!:

http://www.cesarine.org/avenir/avac/

A great Ozzie website, Joyous birth:

http://www.joyousbirth.info/

Another FABULOUS site from Oz:

http://www.cares-sa.org.au/

And a mw in Adelaide:

http://members.essentialbaby.com.au/index.php?act=ST&f=20&t=264271

An American site:

http://www.empoweredchildbirth.com/faq.html#12

And one from Singapore:

http://www.expat.or.id/medical/vbacinsingapore.html

 

Our MSN VBAC site:

http://groups.msn.com/vbac

A good Baby site:

http://www.askdrsears.com/
An Alternative to Tampons:

http://www.mooncup.co.uk/wc.php?u=1019

 

Also attached to this thread is an RTF file worth reading!

menstrual_cup.rtf – Taken from Natural Health Magazine, Aceville

Publications, January 2007

 

Mothers Milk Marketing Board:

http://www.lactivist.co.uk/
For turning those stupidly long links into manageable sizes:

http://tinyurl.com/create.php?url=about:blank

for understanding the shorthand:

http://www.babycentre.co.uk/refcap/545155

A few more of our own:

VBA2C – vaginal birth after 2 CS… and so on depending on the number.

HBAC – home birth after cs

HWBAC – home water birth after cs

elCS – elective cs

emCS – emergency cs

FTP – failure to progress

FFS & WTF – We leave that to your imagination !!! LOL