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Preventing c-section
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Carolyn Rafferty, RN, BSN
Nurse and patient advocate Carolyn Rafferty, RN, BSN, can answer your childbirth questions! Send them to her here.
Your question:
How can I find out more about preventing my birth from ending up
as a cesarean section delivery?
The nurse answers:
There is a wonderful new booklet available free on line for you to
download that tells you how to do this far better than I could do in a
few paragraphs. Please visit www.maternitywise.org/mw/topics/cesarean/booklet.html to download the
booklet and get the latest evidence based information about cesarean
section decisions.
There are many things within your power to prevent having a cesarean.
Things like choosing a provider, place of birth and which elective
interventions you wish to make a part of your birth experience all have
tremendous impact on the chance of your having a cesarean section. Check
it out, get the new booklet and let me know what you think!
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About the author: Carolyn Rafferty is the mother of four children and two foster children as
well as a labor and delivery nurse. Carolyn brings not only her
professional medical knowledge to SheKnows.com but also her diverse
personal childbearing experiences. She has had battles with infertility
and miscarriage, and then experienced three natural childbirths and
an emergent cesarean birth of a preterm baby who spent six weeks in the
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. She has experienced hospital birth and out
of hospital-birth center birth both as a nurse and as a mother. Carolyn
feels so strongly that maternity care should be more mother and baby
friendly that she co-founded a national nursing organization to work
toward that goal. She feels passionately that women can only have
reproductive options if they are truly informed. She supports nurses
that share her passion for patient advocacy by serving as the Executive
Director of the Association of Nurse Advocates for Childbirth Solutions
(www.anacs.org) and volunteering for the Coalition to Improve Maternity Services (CIMS)(www.motherfriendly.org.) You can e-mail her childbirth-related questions to CRaffertyRNBSN@sheknows.com.
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