Tuesday, September 28, 2010
What's In A Name
The Boo Boo Patch really sounds kinda cheesy at a first glance. I mean it's cute and all since it's a play on my kids nicknames but it didn't really fit the point of my blog, my blog is not cute. It's about an ugly plague on maternity care in the US, women being hacked to pieces, physically and emotionally. And I know that isn't always the case for everyone but if you fall into that category, then you are probably not reading me anyhow. So as I considered changing the name of my blog, I started thinking about my upcoming first meeting of the new Morganton chapter of ICAN. I'm stealing a visual aid idea from Nancy Cohen, author of Silent Knife and Open Season. She asks anyone at her seminars who has had a less than adequate birth experience to come get a band-aid and put over their heart. So I want to take that idea and put it over a big "U" which represents all the un's that are associated with births today; that's a long list. It hit me that the boo boo patch is really very fitting. We have this huge boo boo that we try to cover with a band-aid either because we've been told we're not suppose to have bad feelings about our birth experience or we have to just go on and get over it. The gash never really heals and the band-aid just kinda holds it together. I believe we have a lot of women that belong to the boo boo patch. I want to make a difference and help women take the band-aid off and heal. So I guess this is the official Welcome to the Boo Boo Patch.
Friday, September 17, 2010
The whole truth...
http://www.natural-pregnancy-mentor.com/reasons-for-a-c-section.html
C-section awareness and true medical necessity, and even then there are exceptions and interventions that make it more likely.
C-section awareness and true medical necessity, and even then there are exceptions and interventions that make it more likely.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Thursday, September 2, 2010
NC c-section rate 2008 - sad, depressing, rediculous...
31.3% overall
Grace Hospital, Morganton NC - 33.6%
Frye Regional Medical Center, Hickory, NC - 36.2%
Catawba Valley Medical Center, Hickory NC - 23.6%
Mission Memorial, Asheville, NC - 37.1%
Caldwell Memorial Hospital, Lenoir, NC - 26.1%
McDowell Hospital, McDowell, NC - 43.4%
These are my county and surrounding county hospitals. A little scary. I was planning on going to Catawba valley Medical Center with Simon, so I guess that would have been the best choice. But to give Mission a little credit, because I hear they are very good, they probably get alot of transfers and high risk pregnancies to account for their higher number.
http://www.theunnecesarean.com/blog/2010/5/4/north-carolina-cesarean-rates-by-hospital-2008.html
Grace Hospital, Morganton NC - 33.6%
Frye Regional Medical Center, Hickory, NC - 36.2%
Catawba Valley Medical Center, Hickory NC - 23.6%
Mission Memorial, Asheville, NC - 37.1%
Caldwell Memorial Hospital, Lenoir, NC - 26.1%
McDowell Hospital, McDowell, NC - 43.4%
These are my county and surrounding county hospitals. A little scary. I was planning on going to Catawba valley Medical Center with Simon, so I guess that would have been the best choice. But to give Mission a little credit, because I hear they are very good, they probably get alot of transfers and high risk pregnancies to account for their higher number.
http://www.theunnecesarean.com/blog/2010/5/4/north-carolina-cesarean-rates-by-hospital-2008.html
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Just the Beginning...
Well, I started a blog. I need somewhere to keep all my thoughts and info collected. I'm working on getting it all together and presentable and should be posting stuff of value soon, starting with my birth stories which shape the person and purpose I am/have today.
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