{"id":2675,"date":"2013-04-29T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T15:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/paganfamilies\/?p=2675"},"modified":"2013-04-28T15:23:05","modified_gmt":"2013-04-28T22:23:05","slug":"cesarean-awareness-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/paganfamilies\/2013\/04\/cesarean-awareness-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Cesarean awareness month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"<\/a>April has been Cesarean Awareness Month. Why is there an awareness campaign for a common medical procedure? Because it\u2019s way too common!<\/p>\n

The World Health Organization (WHO) and medical studies agree that the best outcomes happen in places where the cesarean rate is 5 \u2013 10%, but in the U.S. nearly 1 in 3 mothers delivers by cesarean<\/strong>. That\u2019s cause for alarm.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s important to understand that this crisis is not caused by mothers in any way. Researchers have identified several causes within the culture of medical care.<\/a> But there\u2019s lots that mothers and fathers can do about it, from lobbying elected officials to holding hospital staff accountable.<\/a><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, it\u2019s useful for anyone planning a birth to understand that a cesarean birth is a substantial possibility. I wrote in Birth On The Labyrinth Path<\/a>,<\/p>\n

Even when medical circumstances necessitate a cesarean that is either planned or an emergency, there are things that you can do to hold a surgical birth as sacred as any other birth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I firmly believe this is true. Pagans tend to want unmedicated \u201cnatural\u201d births (and with good reason too!), but the work of mothering a new person into being is sacred no matter how it\u2019s done.<\/p>\n

I hold these twin truths: We must work to change the culture in which so many mothers and babies are violated and put at risk by unnecesary medical procedures and<\/em> all births, at home, in the hospital, medicated, unmedicated, vaginal, surgical, ALL BIRTHS are holy events.<\/p>\n

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