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I just found out I am a bad mother. Not because I let the kids apply their own sun block, or because hot dogs are the major source of protein in our home in the summer. And not because I took them to the town fair and let them ride “the barf rides” 16 times. No, apparently, according to a “leading childbirth expert,” I have failed since the very beginning to properly bond with any of my children because they were delivered by Caesarean section. French obstetrician Michel Odent presented his findings in Cambridge, England last month, detailing how a...

I don't know who the moron is at the AP who wrote this story, but they just said the rate was 29%, and then finished the article with the lie, "the rate is about 24%. So which is it??? The Medical Profession is shaking in their boots, because THEY KNOW the 2005 stats are being compiled as we speak and that when the CDC publishes the FACT that the rate has jumped another 5 or 7% IN ONE YEAR, they know they are going to have a problem on their hands in terms of Public Relations. And so the spinning,...

<p>For some women, birth has become the latest battleground for reproductive rights.</p> <p>At a growing number of hospitals, women are being forced to schedule a repeat cesarean section just because they already had one. Doctors and hospitals say they fear lawsuits if they allow a patient to attempt a vaginal birth after a C-section - called a VBAC - and something goes awry.</p>

BOGOTA, Colombia -- Police said Tuesday they have arrested a woman in the abduction of an unborn baby who was cut from its mother's womb while she was unconscious. Sol Angela Cartagena said she was with her 2-year-old daughter when she had a drink at a hospital cafeteria in Girardot, southwest of Bogota, and suddenly felt lightheaded. "When I woke up I was in the countryside with my 2-year-old daughter beside me," the woman told RCN TV, adding that someone had performed a Caesarean section on her and taken her baby.

NBC is doing a story tonight on the risks of C-Sections. Gee I wonder why this topic was not brought up during the campaigns? Typical NBC

<p>CHICAGO — A woman in Mexico cut open her own womb with a knife and delivered a healthy baby boy in her rural home when problems developed during labor, doctors report in a medical journal.</p> <p>The woman and her son, her ninth child, both survived despite an eight-hour car ride to the nearest hospital and a wait of several hours once she got there, said co-author Dr. Rafael Valle, a Northwestern University (search) obstetrician who learned about the case from a colleague.</p>

LONDON - A woman in Mexico gave birth to a healthy baby boy after performing a Caesarean section on herself with a kitchen knife, doctors said Tuesday. The unidentified 40-year-old woman, who lived in a rural area without electricity, running water or sanitation and was an eight-hour drive from the nearest hospital, performed the operation when she could not deliver the baby naturally.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AP) -- A pregnant woman who allegedly ignored medical warnings to have a Caesarean section to save her twins was charged Thursday with murder after one of the babies was stillborn. Prosecutors said Melissa Ann Rowland, 28, didn't want the scars that accompany the surgery. An autopsy found the baby died two days before its January 13 delivery and that it would have survived if Rowland had had a C-section when her doctors urged her to, between Christmas and January 9. The other baby is alive, but authorities had no further information. The doctors had warned...

Salt Lake County prosecutors on Thursday charged a West Jordan woman with criminal homicide in the death of her stillborn baby. Prosecutors claim the woman ignored repeated warnings in the last few weeks of pregnancy that the twins she was carrying could die or suffer brain damage unless she had an immediate Caesarean section. Melissa Ann Rowland, 28, had refused medical treatment, saying she would rather die than go to either of the two recommended hospitals, and that being cut "from breast bone to pubic bone" would ruin her life, the county District Attorney's Office alleges in a probable-cause statement...

<p>As Melissa Ann Rowland's unborn twins got closer to birth, doctors repeatedly told her they would likely die if she did not have a Caesarean (search) section. She refused, and one later was stillborn.</p> <p>Authorities charged 28-year-old Rowland with murder on Thursday, saying she exhibited "depraved indifference to human life," according to court documents. One nurse told police that Rowland said she would rather "lose one of the babies than be cut like that."</p>

Wilkes-Barre, PA (LifeNews.com) -- Some pro-life activists say a Pennsylvania case shows the schizophrenic nature of the U.S. justice system, when it comes to the rights of unborn children. A Pennsylvania judge last week granted legal permission to Wilkes-Barre General Hospital to become guardian of an unborn child whose mother had refused to deliver by Caesarean section.Yet, under Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court decision which legalized abortion, unborn children can be destroyed at will.In the C-section case, Amber Marlowe, a mother of six, left the hospital because she wanted to deliver her child vaginally. Doctors at the hospital...

<p>Matthew Jacob Garcia will never know his mother, a young woman who loved the sea, country music and her soul mate -- her junior high school sweetheart and husband of just one year.</p> <p>But perhaps one day he will understand that his mother's death, only three hours after his premature birth, helped four other people who now have a second chance at life thanks to her healthy kidneys, liver and heart.</p>