Thank you to Tasha Portley for shining a light on the uncomfortable truth that the birth world, like our social world, is racially segregated. Tasha was asked to speak on a panel at the Birth Roundup held in Ft. Worth on April 22, 2017. When she researched the conference, she noticed that she had been asked to speak on an all-white panel, and at the Birth Roundup she found … [Read more...] about Black Mamas and Babies
Ina May Gaskin
VBAC Primer
In 1985 the World Health Organization stated that, "There is no justification for any region to have CS [Cesarean section] rates higher than 10-15%." In 2010, WHO set out to review both the underuse (under 10%) and the overuse (over 15%) of cesareans worldwide. Looking at data for 2008, the 2010 WHO report found that 54 countries had cesarean rates below 10%; 69 countries … [Read more...] about VBAC Primer