With her permission, I will post her birth story after it's written.
We love you, V!

"But now and then, you can make people care, make people notice that something ain't quite right, and nudge them gently, with the words, to get off their ass and fix it." ~Rick Bragg
I am attempting to begin a cesarean awareness campaign via this blog.
I need a "slogan" for the campaign. It's going to be "one if by ___, two if by ___" (a play on the Paul Revere "one if by land, two if by sea" story) and I need ideas as to what to fill in the blanks with. Some ideas already suggested are
cut/push
scalpel/design
above/below
The idea is to have women (and their daughters, friends, mothers, aunts, midwives, etc) from all over the United States (and the world) submit pictures to the blog. Everyone in the pictures should be holding up two fingers (like a "peace" sign). This symbolizes several things:
1. it's the "peace" sign (as in, advocating birthing with gentleness and not violence)
2. It's two fingers, meaning they choose the second choice (two if by____ )
3. It's a "V" for vaginal birth
4. It's a "V" for VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean)
Also, I'd love to get a birthing freedom version of THIS POEM going. I have stanzas 1 and 13 covered. I just need stanzas 2-12. If you'd like to take a stanza, please send me a messege letting me know which one, and then send it to me when you're done with it (along with the number stanza you "re-wrote") Here's an example of a re-written first stanza:
Listen my children and you shall hear
Of the midnight birth of sweet baby dear
On the fourth of July, in Seventy-five;
Hardly a woman is now alive
Who remembers that’s how babies get here
I am attempting to begin a cesarean awareness campaign via this blog.
I need a "slogan" for the campaign. It's going to be "one if by ___, two if by ___" (a play on the Paul Revere "one if by land, two if by sea" story) and I need ideas as to what to fill in the blanks with. Some ideas already suggested are
cut/push
scalpel/design
above/below
The idea is to have women (and their daughters, friends, mothers, aunts, midwives, etc) from all over the United States (and the world) submit pictures to the blog. Everyone in the pictures should be holding up two fingers (like a "peace" sign). This symbolizes several things:
1. it's the "peace" sign (as in, advocating birthing with gentleness and not violence)
2. It's two fingers, meaning they choose the second choice (two if by____ )
3. It's a "V" for vaginal birth
4. It's a "V" for VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean)
Also, I'd love to get a birthing freedom version of THIS POEM going. I have stanzas 1 and 13 covered. I just need stanzas 2-12. If you'd like to take a stanza, please send me a messege letting me know which one, and then send it to me when you're done with it (along with the number stanza you "re-wrote") Here's an example of a re-written first stanza:
Listen my children and you shall hear
Of the midnight birth of sweet baby dear
On the fourth of July, in Seventy-five;
Hardly a woman is now alive
Who remembers that’s how babies get here
I can’t change the fact that she was taken from my womb. That she now faces future problems such as asthma, IBS, and who knows what else! I can’t take that back and I can’t make it right.
But I’m standing up for my daughter now. I will not allow an insurance company, a hospital, a doctor, her majesty AABC, the almighty ACOG, lawyers with tied hands, nay not even the Supreme Court to tell me how, when, why, where or with whom I birth my future babies, or your future babies, or my daughter’s future babies.
These entities work for us, ladies! We hire them. I don’t tell Dr. Knifewielder how to pleasure his wife and I’m not going to let him tell me how I must birth my baby.
To these ends I hereby declare that I, vbacwarrior and
What does this mean? It means that except in the case of a dire emergency,
I will not go to a hospital with a skyrocketing c-section rate.
I will also not go to a hospital that currently has a vbac ban, defacto or otherwise.
If I require medical attention, I will not seek care from a physician whose c-section rate is higher than 15% (I will drive to another city or out of state, if necessary)
I will not participate in conversations about obstetricians who have cesarean rates higher than 15% unless it is to speak about the dangers of seeing such a physician for normal pregnancy care.
I will see a non-OB affiliated midwife for well-woman care.
I will write to my congressman each month, encouraging him to help pass legislation in favor of mother-baby friendly birth practices and midwifery.
If asked, I will never recommend an
I will write letters-to-the-editor each month (or more often if allowed) about the dangers of the current c-section rate in this country.
I will become a doula and support women in their pregnancies, births and postpartum.
I will raise my daughter to know and appreciate what normal birth is.
For more information on Cesarean Awareness Month, cesarean sections or vbac (vaginal birth after cesarean) please visit www.ican-online.org