cesarean debate (now caesareanbirth.org)

In August 2016, my response to the Science and Technology Committee's invitation for written submissions was published here .   Un...

Researchers this week warn women and doctors against planning births prior to 39 weeks because of an increased risk of poor child develop...

Researchers this week warn women and doctors against planning births prior to 39 weeks because of an increased risk of poor child develop...

I hadn't heard this interview with Jeffrey Ecker MD before, though I had read the accompanying paper in the New England Journal of M...

' Babies ‘at risk’ as NHS runs short of paediatricians ', warns the president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health...

 I don't want to speak to soon, but momentum seems to be building once again, which might see a move towards greater balance in the...

My co-author, Dr. Magnus Murphy , gave an excellent interview on CBC Radio this week ( listen here ), explaining how " when it comes...

Opening the pdf of ' BETTER BIRTHS - Improving outcomes of maternity services in England ' today, I was reminded of the faulty S...

On February 12, 2016, just ahead of the National Maternity Review  being published, I commented on this post by Baroness Julia Cumberlege ...

On October 31, 2015 my organization electivecesarean.com (also a Stakeholder for various NICE guidance), submitted the following comments...

My silence on this blog over the past year is no accident, and while my cesarean campaign work has continued (via NICE, public speaking, r...

I plan to write about Piper Newton again - she's written a courageous book called, ' And Then My Uterus Fell Out ', which is d...

Admiration and respect. These are the words I would use to describe my feelings towards Dr.  Silvio Aladje , an OBGYN and maternal fetal m...

Birthrights website reads: "We believe that all women are entitled to respectful maternity care that protects their fundamental right...

The answer to why women often don't get the caesarean birth they want is this: Their requests are blatantly refused. The answer to w...

My letter (title above) was published in the British Medical Journal today; I wrote it in response to another letter,  NICE says caesarea...

My letter (with the title above) was published in the British Medical Journal today; I wrote it in response to another letter,  NICE prom...

Every now and then, I meet or read comments by a midwife who is completely and utterly supportive of women who request cesareans, who und...

Following a comment I left on his article this week,  What Is A Normal Pregnancy? , Dr. Silvio Aladjem invited me to comment on an articl...

It's great news today that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have become new parents to a baby boy. No news on the name yet - only t...

 I'm not keen on the title of this debate (it's not for anyone to say how a woman "should" give birth), but in the con...

electivecesarean.com   2013 NICE Quality Standard Reinforces Support for Maternal Request Caesareans and Mothers’ Satisfaction with Materni...

The fact that some women experience an orgasm during birth is not a new concept, as one midwife commented at the bottom of yesterday's ...

A new study from the University of Utah School of Medicine (lead author Ingrid Nygaard, M.D), which followed the experiences of 215 women ...

Above is the title of a recently posted blog on the U.S. babycenter website by mum of two Kristina Sauerwein. Kristina's post begins ...