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Vaginal Birth After Cesarian
- Lynn Baptisti Richards: The VBAC Experience. [sources include amazon]
- Good: contains many birth stories of
successful vaginal births after cesarians. Bad: overdoes it a little,
e.g., in the story of the woman who gave birth with no attendants or
even a friend, all alone, by choice, after having had a 'classical'
incision cesarian (the kind, fortunately rare, which is much more
likely to result in uterine rupture). Then again, such avoidance of
judgement may be what you're looking for, and it doesn't claim to be a
source of medical advice. --Paula Burch
- Nancy Wainer Cohen and Lois. J. Estner: Silent Knife - cesarian
prevention & vaginal birth after cesarian. 1983, Bergin & Harvey
Publishers, South Hadley, Massachussetts. ISBN 0-89789-026-4 or
0-89789-027-2 (pbk). [sources include amazon]
- I expected something flakier than "The VBAC Experience", from
the title, but found instead that this is an excellent book,
with lots of useful information. Worst point: needs a
revision. Many of the bad things described as a normal part of
a hospital birth have been fading away (in the US) since the
publication date (perhaps partly as a result of some of the
work done by people in the cesarian prevention movement).
--Paula Burch
- Bruce L. Flamm, Md.: Birth After Cesarian: the medical facts. 1990.
Prentice Hall Press, New York. ISBN 0-13-080102-X.
[sources include amazon]
- The medical facts showing that VBAC is in most cases much
safer than a repeat cesarian, by the author of several of the
best research studies on the subject. This book will be much
more useful in impressing a backwards physician, who doesn't
know about the facts, then either of the two books above--also
for convincing relatives and friends who think that you must
be crazy to want a VBAC, when in fact it's much less wise to
go for an unnecessary repeat cesarian. (This book will not
prove as useful in addressing the non-medical side as "Silent
Knife".) --Paula Burch
- Christopher Norwood: How to Avoid a Cesarian Section. 1984. Simon and
Schuster, New York. ISBN 0-671-46916-9. [OOP; try your library or amazon]
- A good book, but not as useful as Flamm's (see above). --Paula Burch
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