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I'm so excited to have a writing piece of mine published with Literary Mama this morning. Would love your support with my writing passion. Please read and share! 

  What do you do when your family is hurt by what you’ve written? Thais Derich shares her experience in this guest post. - 

  See more at: http://www.literarymama.com/blog/archives/2013/07/after-page-one-honesty.html

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Bob Ward, Principal Horn at San Francisco Symphony plays us a special horn at the end of our inspiration day with the bookwritingworld.

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With author Nina Schuyler, author of The Translator

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Today is my big interview with Ina May Gaskin. My intension is to stay present and centered and to provide her with a safe place filled with love and kindness so that she feels comfortable to share honestly with moms who have had a previous cesarean.

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On May 14, 2013, Thais Derich from the International Cesarean Awareness Network (ICAN) speaks with Sara Lamm about her recently released film Birth Story. The interview took place online with voice and video for ICAN members. http://blog.ican-online.org/2013/06/10/interview-with-sara-lamm-director-of-birth-story-ina-may-gaskin-and-the-farm-midwives/

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Literary Mama Accepts My Writing Piece For Publication. Coming July 22!

So excited! Literary Mama, Winner of Writers Digest's 101 Best Websites for Writers, has accepted a writing piece of mine. It will be published July 22. Great website for moms out there and even better for those moms who write! Thank you Elizabeth Stark for helping me get it to publishing quality, thank you to my family for putting up with me writing about them, and thank you to Karna Converse, Literary Mama Blog Editor, for publishing my piece.

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Read what ImprovingBirth.org says about the release of the Listening to Mothers Survey III released last week. 

"The long-awaited national Listening to Mothers Survey III was released this past Thursday, pulling back the curtain on what American mothers experience in maternity care." 

What stood out to Dawn Thompson, Cristen Pascucci, and Rebecca Dekker of ImprovingBirth.org, advocates for mothers, babies, and better maternity care, was the dismaying contrast between the care women thought they received and wanted to receive, and the sub-standard care they were actually subjected to.

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The International Cesarean Awareness Network (ICAN) is excited to announce the kickoff of its Speaker Series.  Please join me as I interview Sara Lamm, Director (with Mary Wigmore) and co-producer of Birth Story on Tuesday, May 14, 2013.  Birth Story has been screened in over 200 locations worldwide including several locations hosted by local ICAN chapters. Birth Story is a documentary that examines Ina May 

Gaskin and her work as a midwife on The Farm. The speaker series is FREE for members. Membership is $30 a year. The cost for non-members is $20 per event.  To support ICAN's mission by becoming a member, visit our homepage at ican-online.org.  To register for the event go to https://ican.webex.com/ican/onstage/g.php?d=663697212&t=a The vision of ICAN is to make the Speaker Series a bimonthly event. Our host will be examining current issues around maternity care in a fresh thought-provoking format by interviewing a variety of childbirth experts.  The next event is scheduled for July 2013. Sara Lamm is a Los Angeles-based writer, director, and performer whose documentary film, DR. BRONNER’S MAGIC SOAPBOX was released theatrically in 2007 and had its television premiere on The Sundance Channel. Her work has also appeared at MASS-MOCA, The American Visionary Art Museum, on Public Radio, and in performance venues throughout New York City. In 2010, she was one of 25 emerging artists recognized by AOL’s 25 for 25 grant. For five years she produced and performed in Dog & Pony, a live NYC variety show featuring sketch comedy and multi-media performance. She has two children, birthed with the help of an extraordinary midwife.

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Joyce Maynard and Thais Derich at Joyce's writer's workshop at her home in Mill Valley, CA.

Read Blog Post: http://www.spinachandhoney.com/2013/05/a-day-with-joyce-maynard.html

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It's Cesarean Awareness Month. Check out this interview with ICAN's president: http://www.scienceandsensibility.org/?p=6563

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Another wonderful event put on by Elizabeth Stark and Angie Powers founders of the Book Writing World.

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Thank God! "Let nature take its course." Amen. Although this is HUGE for ACOG and I thank them for making this statement, two things bother me. 1) There's something uncomfortable about having an older, white male who hasn't had a baby or breastfed hold the most political power over women's reproductive health. 2) I really didn't like what he said about women requesting cesareans as part of the problem. There was a study about this rumor done recently and although we've all heard it, it's like a super, super small number of women. So small it isn't worth mentioning at all. Strange to see it in this high profile statement.

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ACOG is on fire this month. Thank you for this statement.

  Me: The US is number #34 in the world below Cuba and South Korea in infant deaths, yet we spend way more money on hospitals and care. Could the over medicalization of birth in this country be contributing to the deaths our children?

  Click on link above to read statement.

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My very special neighbor and friend, Kristin Richmond, and my dear friend in San Francisco, Amy Graff, made this list! This makes me very happy to have such authentic women and mothers on this list. Gives me hope.

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"Overall, 13% (of pregnant women with a prior cesarean) had a trial of labor," reported Dr. Salmeen.

What's a trial of labor? In other words, your doctor allows you to try a normal birth rather than preemptively scheduling you for a repeat cesarean.

67% overall of those very few even allowed to try to give birth naturally were successful (doesn't include the successful vaginal births after a cesarean at home like mine).

Dr. Salmeen goes on to say "For hospitals that have policies against a trial of labor, or that are prohibitive in terms of a trial of labor, one category that can be viewed very differently is that of women with a history of previous vaginal birth."

In some select groups where vaginal births happened in the past the success rate for a vaginal birth after a cesarean was 90%!

Trial of labor after C-section uncommon, but often successful : OBGYN News

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Professor Kozhimannil said she suspected that the vast patchwork of health management techniques was driving the variation, including how patients are admitted, how their labor is managed and how hospitals and clinicians are paid for the work.

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