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These mothers marching Monday want to bring attention to the alarming number of Cesarean births in the nation.


Yesterday on Labor Day, mothers and supporters gathered in Oxford for the third annual Rally to Improve Birth.
As greater national attention is brought to alarming rates of Cesarean section and what Amnesty International has called a maternal health care “crisis” in the U.S., consumers are asking their local hospitals to join the push for accountability.
The 2014 Rally to Improve Birth took place at The Powerhouse on Labor Day morning.
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Sierra Cannon was a local Oxford participant in the event.


Consumer advocates and national health organizations like the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Joint Commission continue to point to physician practices — not medical need — as a driver in the overuse of Cesarean delivery.
Meanwhile, women who have already had Cesareans report major access problems to vaginal birth after Cesarean (VBAC), including large numbers of hospitals and care providers with mandatory surgery policies that do not “allow” vaginal birth. Nine out of ten American women give birth only by repeat Cesarean after the first surgery, despite national health policy calling VBAC safer for women in most cases.
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Participants in the march are asking local hospitals to examine their own rates of procedures, labor ward protocols, and physician practices to identify how they match up to national guidelines for safely preventing Cesareans.


“We realize that many hospital administrators are truly not aware of what goes on in their facilities. We are asking them now to take a serious look at what’s happening on their watch—especially important measures like Cesarean and vaginal birth after Cesarean,” said Dawn Thompson, founder and president of Improving Birth. “Every one of these numbers represents real women and babies.”
Improving Birth representatives are asking local hospitals to examine their own rates of procedures, labor ward protocols, and physician practices to identify how they match up to national guidelines for safely preventing Cesareans. Hospitals are invited to meet with local consumers to discuss how improvements can be made.
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Betsy Yow is Oxford’s local representative for Improving Birth.


“We hear over and over again that women are to blame for the rates of procedures like Cesareans and vaginal births after Cesarean, but research just doesn’t support that sweeping claim,” said obstetrician/gynecologist Dr. Nick Rubashkin, staff physician at the California Pacific Medical Center and former Fulbright Research Fellow. “As physicians, we have an ethical responsibility to take a serious look at how we can better our own practices to benefit women and babies.”
To contact the local Improving Birth representative call Betsy Yow at 662-816-4844 email her at or betsybarden@gmail.
For more information, visit www.ImprovingBirth.org.
Courtesy Improving Birth
 

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