Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Consumer Reports and Birth Practices

Even the magazine Consumer Reports gets into the wide variation in birth practices across our country!

In some hospitals, a low-risk woman's chances of having a Cesarian birth were 15x that of women in other hospitals. This isn't about a woman or baby needing medical intervention, this is about a certain culture cultivated in those hospitals and the procedures, protocols, and practices of the care providers working there.

One of the biggest things you can do to lower your risk of a cesarian birth is to choose a care provider and place of birth where surgery is only performed when a clear medical need presents itself and where protocols support a woman's ability to give birth, not thwart it. What are your options where you live?


http://news.consumerreports.org/baby/2013/03/advice-to-pregnant-women-choose-your-hospital-carefully.html