Ep. 215: How to Avoid a C-section

Unnecessareans (Unnecessary c-sections) are on the rise in America and for many reasons! So many women prepare for labor from a place of wanting to avoid a c-section but fail to understand what actually CAUSES unnecessary cesareans! Without understanding WHAT causes them, it will be very hard to implement HOW to actually avoid one!  

There are things you can do, decisions you can make and conversations you can have that will mitigate your risk of unnecessary intervention and allow you to avoid having a cesarean birth when that is not your plan! 

This episode will teach you the three most influential things you can do to avoid an unnecessarean! 

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Sources for this episode: 

Spontaneous Labor:

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/215/4538/1396

https://www.ejog.org/article/S0301-2115(98)00058-X/abstract

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0137188

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1948087/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26776817/

https://www.acog.org/clinical/clinical-guidance/committee-opinion/articles/2013/11/definition-of-term-pregnancy

https://www.acog.org/womens-health/faqs/when-pregnancy-goes-past-your-due-date

https://www.acog.org/clinical/clinical-guidance/obstetric-care-consensus/articles/2014/03/safe-prevention-of-the-primary-cesarean-delivery

https://www.acog.org/clinical/clinical-guidance/practice-bulletin/articles/2020/01/macrosomia

Labor at home:

https://evidencebasedbirth.com/american-obstetrics-in-the-1950s/

https://www.acog.org/clinical/clinical-guidance/committee-opinion/articles/2019/02/approaches-to-limit-intervention-during-labor-and-birth

https://www.acog.org/clinical/clinical-guidance/obstetric-care-consensus/articles/2014/03/safe-prevention-of-the-primary-cesarean-delivery

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3660040/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1595201/

Failure to Progress:

https://www.acog.org/clinical/clinical-guidance/obstetric-care-consensus/articles/2014/03/safe-prevention-of-the-primary-cesarean-delivery

https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD010088.pub3/full

https://www.acog.org/clinical/clinical-guidance/obstetric-care-consensus/articles/2014/03/safe-prevention-of-the-primary-cesarean-delivery