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vbacfacts has been a member of Linktree for 7 years and joined in October 2018. The social media accounts linked to from vbacfacts are: • Facebook • Instagram • LinkedIn • Email • Payment Besides social media accounts, vbacfacts has populated their site with: • VBAC Facts® : Consulting • Mother planning a VBAC: “Am I making the right choice?” • How a husband went from pro-cesarean to pro-VBAC • Birth intervals & uterine rupture aka how long to wait to VBAC • "No one can force you to have a cesarean" is false • Where Rinat Dray’s forced cesarean lawsuit stands and what every birth professional should know • Do epidurals during planned VBACs mask uterine rupture pain or delay its diagnosis? • Free Report: Top 5 Uterine Rupture Myths • Free Handout: 3 Surprising Things ACOG Says About VBAC • Free Checklist: The 5 Simple Steps to Planning a Victorious VBAC • Free Handout: New study reveals surprising truths behind the top three VBAC calculators • VBAC Facts® Professional Membership • The Truth About VBAC™ for Families • VBAC Facts®: Courses • VBAC Facts® BIPOC Scholarship Fund • VBAC Facts®: Speaking • Vaginal birth after classical incision: The true story behind the often cited 4-9% uterine rupture rate • What birthing families need to know about VBAC after a classical or T/J incision • “Hospitals offering VBAC are required to have 24/7 anesthesia” is false • Eleven things to love about ACOG’s 2017 VBAC Guidelines • ‘Health equity tourists’: How white scholars are colonizing research on health disparities • The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill • Break the Silence Against Domestic Violence • In South L.A., turning to Black midwives to give birth • California Order re: Vaccinations & Hospital Visitors, Aug, 5, 2021 • A Personal History of the C-Section • Too Bad We Can't Just "Ban" Accreta-The Downstream Consequences of VBAC Bans • Best Hospitals for Maternity: Data Collection Begins • Myth: VBACs should never be induced • Induction is wrong, wrong, wrong… wait, what? • Mansplaining video • Please don’t call my cesarean a “cesarean birth” • Having a kid is probably my biggest life regret: ‘Wife concurs’ • Taking Race Out of an Equation for Childbirth • Protect VBAC with California Licensed Midwives • Free Training: Black Birth Joy: Honoring Black Birth Justice Organizations and the Lives They Impact • Testify to the California legislature that the time has come for California Licensed Midwives to have their own regulatory board • It’s always political. Lessons from the Basecamp fiasco. • No, It Wasn’t Messy and 6 Other Home Birth Truths. • Brooklyn Doctor Under Investigation in Sha-asia Washington’s Death During Childbirth • Opposition to Criminalization of Individuals During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period • How Childhood Trauma Leads to Addiction • Kay Isaac Indignation Salvadore • One mother’s fight on ‘the front lines of a revolution’ to save Black mothers, babies BY ANNA SPOERRE Read more here: https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/community/article248873664.html#storylink=cpy • One mother’s fight on ‘the front lines of a revolution’ to save Black mothers, babies Read more here: https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/community/article248873664.html#storylink=cpy • Learn more about pre eclampsia • Can we eat to starve cancer • Small-Bowel Obstruction • National Vital Statistics Reports: Births: Final Data for 2018 • Expertise is Not Social Justice: Reflecting on the “Ob*sity Epidemic” • The Underappreciation of Rest in Today’s Society • Hysterectomy overuse on the Lown Index • 'Useful Delusions' Examines How Beliefs Can Be Powerful In Positive And Negative Ways • Generational trauma can change the brain circuitry of an unborn baby • Did New York let doctors get away with sexual misconduct? • Accreta spectrum disorder tied to increased risk of PTSD • Tatyana Ali Knows Black Moms Deserve Better Than Her Own Traumatic Birth Story • Women Tending to Their Basic Needs Is Not Self-Care • UCLA Midwifery Town Hall • The First Three Steps: How White Perinatal Professionals Can Support BIPOC Birthing People • Episiotomies Still Common In Some Hospitals • Four loaded words that may sting VBAC hopeful parents • These Black Midwives Opened A South LA Facility With The Goal Of 'Empowered' Births • Jen’s interview with Finding Your Village Podcast with Amanda Gorman • DONATE: South LA Birth Center • Forever Connected: The Lifelong Biological Consequences of Fetomaternal and Maternofetal Microchimerism • Finding VBAC statistics for your hospital and state • The Separate and Unequal Health System' Highlighted By COVID-19 • How A Lack Of Data On COVID-19 Vaccines Affects Pregnant People • Refusal of Medically Recommended Treatment During Pregnancy • Uterine rupture survival story teaches two lessons • Indiana University Health Responds to Black Doctor's Video of COVID Treatment: Nursing Team 'May Have Been Intimidated' • Revered doctor steps down, accusing Seattle Children’s Hospital of racism • More babies could be delivered at home | READER COMMENTARY • 39-Week nulliparous inductions are not elective • Labor Induction versus Expectant Management in Low-Risk Nulliparous Women • Pulse Oximeter Devices Have Higher Error Rate in Black Patients • Pilot Program Would Allow Tricare to Cover Doulas, Lactation Consultants • Plasticenta: First evidence of microplastics in human placenta • Breast Milk Shows Promise for Treating COVID-19 and Protecting Babies • Amicus Briefs Filed in Support of Rinat Dray in Her Ongoing Fight For Justice • What would you pay to feel safe during childbirth? • Dear White People: Here Are 5 Uncomfortable Truths Black Colleagues Need You To Know • Stillbirths During the COVID-19 Pandemic in England, April-June 2020 • ‘Women feel they have no option but to give birth alone’: the rise of freebirthing • Doulas are essential petition • News Report-Delayed Umbilical cord clamping • Survey-Tell Us About Your Childbirth Experience • I’m A Doctor, And I’m Failing My Patients. Here’s What Forced Me To Recognize That. • Mount Sinai among 3 hospital systems under investigation for pregnant women drug testing practices • Eating just ONE egg a day increases your risk of diabetes by 60 per cent, study warns • One egg a day 'LOWERS your risk of type 2 diabetes': Controversial study says it promotes fatty acids that protect you from the disease • Constructing the Modern American Midwife: White Supremacy and White Feminism Collide • VBAC 101: Deciding if vaginal birth after cesarean is right for you • ‘ How Babies Come into This World Matters for All of Us’ • A researcher in Minneapolis is exploring the impact police violence could be having on pregnant Black women and their babies. • Cesarean Delivery and Gender of Delivering Physicians: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis • New Hotline Aims to Support Black Moms • New Estimates for Breast Cancer Risk With HRT • A New Hippocratic Oath Asks Doctors To Fight Racial Injustice And Misinformation • Discussion: Why do Black people return to white racist midwives? • Myth: Risk of uterine rupture doesn’t change much after a cesarean • 28-Minute VBAC Primer for Cesarean Parents (Jen on Whole Mother Radio) • Women Are Deciding Not to Have Babies Because of the Pandemic. That’s Bad for All of Us • The three biggest concerns with ACOG’s VBAC Guidelines • Free Training: How to be a healthcare antiracist • vbacfacts.com/decisions • Can you feel a uterine rupture with an epidural? • Calling women who plan home VBACs “stupid” misses the point • “No one can force you to have a cesarean” is false • New study reveals surprising truths behind the top three VBAC calculators • Finding a VBAC Supportive OB or Midwife • Californians for the Advancement of Midwifery • Thoughts on VBAC after three or more prior cesareans • Does VBAC after more than one prior cesarean pose an increased risk? YES. • How can one support VBAC after witnessing a uterine rupture? • VBAC Facts on Uterine Rupture • Black Women Turn to Midwives to Avoid COVID and ‘Feel Cared For’ • On Racism: A New Standard For Publishing On Racial Health Inequities • Ask the governor to veto SB 1237! • Tell The VBAC Link to do the right thing • How to Advocate for Yourself as a Pregnant Black Woman • SB 1237 analysis written by three Black-led organizations • Call your Assembly member and urge them to vote NO on SB 1237 • See if your assemblyperson is a member of the Appropriations Committee so you can ask them to vote NO on SB 1237 • I use to feel a lot of judgement ... • SARS-CoV-2 Infection, Comorbidities, and Pregnancy Outcomes • Characteristics and Outcomes of 241 Births to Women With Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Infection at Five New York City Medical Centers • From Cities to Suburbs • Full video • Denver School Principal On How Black Students Led Swift Changes To History Curriculum • Op-Ed: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: How to sustain momentum for the anti-racism movement • False comparison: Fatal car accidents and VBAC • Twitter • Setting a legal standard for affirmative consent in childbirth • Haize Hawke Rosen Go Fund Me • Why Race Matters: A Letter from the Dean • Response to NYT Op-Ed “Don’t Be Afraid of Giving Birth in a New York Hospital.” • ECV • Many Medical Decision Tools Disadvantage Black Patients • 'Implicit bias' prevents black women from receiving proper health care; Patients R Waiting vows to change that • A Hospital’s Secret Coronavirus Policy Separated Native American Mothers From Their Newborns • Understanding Systemic Racism in Maternity Care: The Voices of Black Researchers • If you really want to understand, watch to the last second • The Royal College of Midwives • 7 Ways We Know Systemic Racism Is Real • Free training: Helping Kids Process Violence, Trauma, and Race in a World of Nonstop News offered by Common Sense Media • Everyone deserves bias free care • U.S. Coronavirus Advice Is Failing Pregnant Women • PRIORITY: Pregnancy Coronavirus Outcomes Registry • Promoting shared decision-making and transparency for birthing people during COVID-19 • Reveal: Reproducing Racism on Apple Podcasts • 3 Black Female ER Doctors Launch Free Telehealth Service For Marginalized Communities To Deal With COVID-19 • Women’s reproductive health and “failure speak” • Black Women Are Hit Hardest by Fibroid Tumors • THE CHARACTERISTICS OF WHITE SUPREMACY CULTURE • Shared Decision Making • As COVID-19 sweeps through the Navajo Nation, a hospital is accused of endangering lives • Prominent Manhattan E.R. doctor on coronavirus front lines kills herself • NYC Well talk text chat 24/7 • Group Peer Support • 'I started shouting at the midwives': the stress of giving birth under lockdown • New York Launches a COVID-19 Maternity Task Force to Support Expectant Mothers • Massachusetts mothers need more childbirth options • Birth Centers Are Crucial for Communities of Color, Especially in a Pandemic • Where do women birth during a pandemic? • Jada Pinkett-Smith Wants You To Chill With The Negative Self-Talk • P&G GOES FROM ‘THE TALK’ TO ‘THE LOOK’ TO ILLUSTRATE THE UNCONSCIOUS BIAS THAT PLAGUES BLACK MEN • A Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in a Climate of Secrecy • 14 Misconceptions About Domestic Violence • “We Are Constantly Warned Not to Speak Negatively”: Hospitals Crack Down on COVID-19 Complaints • N.J. hospital is 1st in U.S to try placenta therapy on critically ill coronavirus patient • Almonte General Hospital requests all women in labour have an epidural to curb spread of COVID-19 • You’re Black and Pregnant. What Should Your Birth Plan Actually Look Like? • Pregnant women are concerned about hospital births in light of coronavirus outbreaks and little information about how it might affect them • COVID-19 FAQs for Obstetrician-Gynecologists, Obstetrics • On My Departure From Hospital-Based Birth: A Reflection • Pediatricians say racism is devastating to Black children—let’s get to the root cause • Jumpstart Team VBAC Facts • Women Burned by Quick fix for heavy periods • Trauma Informed Care in Community Midwifery • Rural America Has a Maternal Mortality Problem. Midwives Might Help Solve It. • VBAC Facts Courses • White Doulas, We Need to Understand White Supremacy to Organize Against It • Overdose and suicide among top causes of death for new moms in California, study finds • In Uganda, mothers in labour die amidst coronavirus lockdown • Free Public Webinar Offering Labor After Cesarean During COVID-19: Why it is More Important Than Ever • What you can do to fight racism in maternity care • C-sections can cause infertility. Mine did • Black Mamas Can Thrive During Childbirth, COVID-19 Or Not • I'm an OB/GYN who attended thousands of deliveries before wondering why Americans give birth in bed • When I had my miscarriage • 7 Symptoms Every Pregnant Woman Should Know • Breech Babies Don’t Always Require C-Sections • Coronavirus: Pregnant women not at greater risk, experts say • COVID-19 Is No Reason to Abandon Pregnant People • Implicit bias education won’t help as much as this • Social Distancing: This is Not a Snow Day • Coronavirus Disease 2019 COVID-19 • Dear daughter: Be loud, take up space—your voice matters • It's Time We Start Better Supporting Pregnancy Loss in the Emergency Room • This Is What Periods Look Like For Women Around The World • ‘Shifting the Culture of Care’: A Q&A With Chanel Porchia-Albert, Founder of Doula Collective Ancient Song • Response to OB: Scare Tactics vs Informed Consent aka why I started this website • Where the Rinat Dray forced cesarean lawsuit stands right now • Practice Advisory: Novel Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) • To the Mama who doesn’t have a village • California midwives NARM prep • Donate • OB-GYN Accused of Negligence After Mom Dies Hours After Giving Birth • As Menopause Nears, Be Aware It Can Trigger Depression And Anxiety, Too • This Routine Gyno Procedure Could Mean You Never Orgasm Again • What Pregnant Women Should Know About Coronavirus • Pregnant Oregonians face giving birth without doulas, extended family during the coronavirus crisis • New Study Finds Moms Feel Guilty About Almost Everything • The U.S. Rate of Vaginal Birth After C-Section Is Increasing, CDC Data Finds • I'm pregnant, I have coronavirus and I'm shocked at how badly the UK has handled it • How the concept of forgiveness is used to gaslight women • Rebecca Polston • Video • NY Dept of Health: HealthAdvisory:COVID-19GuidanceforHospitalOperatorsRegarding Visitation Updated Guidance regarding Obstetrical and Pediatric Settings • The men who lost their wives during childbirth • Pregnant Women Turn to Home Births to Escape Virus • TeamSTEPPS® Helps St. Louis Hospital Keep C-Section Rate Low • This Is What Happens When You Support Pregnancy For Every Body • NARM Prep JumpStart: Insiders Guide for Student Midwives of Color • Pitocin Is Not Oxytocin – Blog | Kelly Brogan MD • Single vs Dual Layer Suturing Around the World • The U.S. Gave Troubled Doctors a Second Chance. Patients Paid the Price. • Pregnant Behind Bars • Alaska Birth Collective • Transparency, Compassion, and Truth in Medical Errors: Leilani Schweitzer at TEDxUniversityofNevada • Childbirth in the Age of Opioid Addiction • Confronting Racial Bias in Maternal Deaths • Rural-Urban Differences In Severe Maternal Morbidity And Mortality In The US, 2007–15 • Menstrual Cups Linked to Toxic Shock Syndrome • The Damaging Effect of Commenting on Pregnant Women’s Bodies • ICAN’s Giving Tuesday Fundraiser • This is What We Know...The Latest On The New PPD Drug, Zulresso • How Trillions of Microbes affect every stage of our life • To Heal From Trauma, You Have to Feel Your Feelings • Consent is a Life Skill • Inside the unique role of midwives in New Mexico • I’m an OBGYN- and I didn’t recognize my Own Symptoms of Postpartum Depression • My Patient Almost Died From A Mistake I Made. I Apologized And It Changed My Life. • It Will Take More Than a $34,000 Drug to stop Postpartum Depression • We Need to Talk About PTSD in NICU Parents • A Hospital Explains Why They Ban VBAC • No one told me about the darkness • The mental load of motherhood is what I didn’t fully expect • California Association of Licensed Midwives • Pozitively Parker photos by EBU Photography • Rates of maternal mistreatment in the US are high across the board — especially for women of color • Science Update: Delayed Cord Clamping may benefit infant brain development • Supporting Sufferers of Birth Trauma: A Pitfall to Avoid • Four words to never say to VBAC hopeful parents • Motherhood and medicine should mix. So why is it such a struggle? • One Doctor’s ‘Awkward’ Decision To Write His Name On His Scrub Cap Is Changing Safety In Hospitals Around The World • Safe Space Radio: Child Abuse And • California Medical Board Proposed Legislation Prohibiting VBAC with Licensed Midwives • California faces a doctor shortage. But doctors just derailed a plan to fix it • What is Reproductive Coercion? • Becoming a mother has been 'struggle', Meghan says • My traumatic birth shaped the way I planned for my second delivery • Rate of maternal deaths in the US is rising; black women face higher risk • Birth Right Solutions • Dear C-Section Scar • Meghan Markle sparks debate at global obstetrics summit • MAWS needs your help to protect birth centers today! • New “interspecies communication” strategy between gut bacteria and mammalian hosts uncovered • Jen Kamel On VBAC and the importance of birth options • OREGON MIDWIFERY COUNCIL 2020 SPRING CONFERENCE • Your experience with horizontal violence • I’m an Obstetrician. Giving Birth at Home Isn’t Irresponsible. • Unplanned Cesarean Birth After “Doing Everything Right” • Amazing twin placenta! • Charlottesville Firefighters team up with midwives to help make births safer • Mom Congress • Why Are Health Care Providers Slapping And Yelling At Mothers During Childbirth? • Post clipping alopecia and poor hair regrowth in pets • Google search vs medical degree • Natalie Portman Calls For Women To Embrace Their Mistakes: "F*Ck Up And Thrive, Sisters" • Another VBAC consult misinforms • Bill to require consent for pelvic exams on patients under anesthesia • A New Way Of Paying For Maternity Care Aims To Reduce C-Sections • New Study Uncovers the Heavy Financial Toll of Untreated Maternal Mental Health Conditions • Traveling for VBAC due to VBAC ban. • Exclusive: New evidence shows a patient warned Columbia University about OB-GYN's alleged sexual assault decades ago • How being a colorblind birth professional hurts your clients • This 'Uncommon' But Deadly Pregnancy Condition Is On The Rise • Tweet from Yamiche Alcindor • With the rising cesarean rate worldwide • Bias In Medicine: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) • Fallopian flushing technique helping women became pregnant • Indian female farmers going 'womb-less' to boost productivity • VBAC planning checklist • Midwife who ignored pregnant woman's request for pain relief in labour could be prosecuted • To lower maternal and infant mortality rates, we need more midwives • Hospitals know how to protect mothers. They just aren’t doing it. • A Norfolk doctor found a treatment for sepsis. Now he's trying to get the ICU world to listen. • Medicare Trims Payments To 800 Hospitals, Citing Patient Safety Incidents • Sticks and Stones- How Words Can Hurt Me {A better understanding of healthy birth affirmations.} • MetroDoctors January/February 2020 - Obstetrical Services Today • How often you hold your baby actually affects their DNA, study finds • Why Are so Many Babies Born around 8:00 A.M.? • Facility CEO resigns after woman in vegetative state gives birth; new allegations emerge • Nurses’ Intuition Serves as Valuable Predictor of Patient Decline, Says Recent Study • Sperm Could Be a Bigger Factor in Miscarriages Than We've Been Led to Believe • Heroic Ebola Survivor Named Time Person of the Year Dies in Childbirth • The Dangerous Rise of the IUD as Poverty Cure • NARM Prep Jumpstart: Insiders' Guide for Student Midwives of Color • 17 women sue Columbia University, its hospitals, claim "massive coverup" of doctor's sex abuse • Exploring the link between menopause and Alzheimer’s • The Mistake I Made With My Grieving Friend • Video-How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Discussing Race • Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology • Meet the midwife helping moms-to-be get affordable care • Research Gaps Leave Doctors Guessing About Treatments For Pregnant Women • Insurance companies aren’t doctors. So why do we keep letting them practice medicine? • ACOG Committee Opinion Number 761 • Op-Ed: NJ Needs Improved Tools to Help People Decide Best Place to Give Birth • Laughing gas for childbirth? More Chicago hospitals offering nitrous oxide to women in labor. • The black midwives changing care for women of color – photo essay • The next generation of doctors may be learning bad habits at teaching hospitals with many safety violations • "In the new clinical trial, which measured bacterial diversity in the gut after 2 years from the intervention, the children had even more bacterial diversity and a steady presence of healthful bacteria. As for the health effects, the children saw a 58 pe • VBAC in the Face of Denial • Non-biological Mother’s can breastfeed thanks to induced lactation. • Surprising Evidence Suggests The Uterus Plays A Role In Cognition • How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Discussing Race • Arkansas Moms Sue Health Department • More than 20 women accused a prominent Pasadena obstetrician of mistreating them. He denied claims and was able to continue practicing • Some women feel fetal kicks years after they've given birth Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2224235-some-women-feel-fetal-kicks-years-after-theyve-given-birth/#ixzz68xBmgsvU • One and Done: When Women Are Too Traumatized by Birth to Have More Kids • VBAC Access Guide • Racism Is The Root, Sustaining Cause Of Black Infant Mortality • We Asked All 2020 Presidential Candidates Their Plans to Address the Black Maternal Mortality Crisis • Joyous birth photography • Here’s What It’s Like To Live In A Country That Actually Cares About Mothers • Did you breastfeed? • My chat with the ACOG VP & CEO about VBAC • Trauma-Informed Care — Reflections of a Primary Care Doctor in the Week of the Kavanaugh Hearing • Home Birth Obstetrics • Celebs Go Dating's Anna Williamson claims having an elective Caesarean after her previous traumatic birth was the 'best money she's ever spent' - and they went without a new car and family holidays to pay the £10,000 bill • Placenta problems after multiple repeat cesareans • Moms of color say they’re terrified of dying in childbirth and no one is listening • Mom who hemorrhaged after birth gives warning to pregnant women • Thousands Seek End to Forced Cesareans in NY and Justice for Rinat Dray • Uterine rupture survival teaches two lessons • Top reason for CEO departures among largest companies is now misconduct, study finds • Brené Brown Global Read-along • What went viral this week: What everyone gets wrong about maternity leave + phone shaming parents • Arkansas judge denies request for midwife-rules stay • Why Don’t People Talk About Their Good Birth Stories? • Become a size-friendly provider • Like us on Facebook • Births in the United States 2018 • Connect with us on LinkedIn • From 8 to 700 midwives in 8 years, South Sudan is making huge strides in saving mothers’ lives, with UNFPA support • Why I never want to know whether Meghan had a home Birth- and neither should you.