Category: Childbirth

In a recent survey, hundreds of mothers shared positive and negative feelings about their cesarean birth. While traumatic and disappointing described the majority of experiences, many also expressed gratitude. Hartford,...

Because of the overwhelming amount of comments that we received on question #5 on the Post Cesarean Feelings Survey, I felt the need to split up not only the results, but the comments into two categories because they were...

Continuing to unveil the results of the World Wide Post Cesarean Feelings Survey that I recently worked on with Theresa from Healthy Baby Network, I wanted to move on to question number 6 which was “Did you feel like you were in...

What support did you have during labor? Midwife : 18.2% Doula : 9.3% Spouse/Partner : 90.7% Family/Friend : 37.0% Hospital Staff : 49.2% I do not have very much to say about this in general, but there are a couple alarming...

Question number three turned out to be a very popular question with many comments. In fact I had to read through 20 pages, yes, 20 pages of comments to see which should be used or stood out the most.First, here are the results...

With the initial question of our survey, we did not opt to allow any questions, so the numbers and information obtained were pretty cut and dry. Question # 1 :  How many Cesarean Births have you had? 1 Cesarean –  67.4%   580...

Question #2 was simply, Your cesarean birth was: Elective or planned     14.8% 118 Unplanned (example – labor not progressing)   39.5%   316 Emergency (mother or baby’s life at risk)  21.0%   168 First was unplanned...