Your Birth, Your Choice

03/06/2017

We deserve to be part of the conversation about vaccines. Choice is what this page is all about.

Fearless Parent is a non-profit organization devoted to evidence-based health, green living, and holistic parenting.

11/13/2016

Restricting Access to Waterbirth is one way the Obstetricians can keep control of Childbirth in America. Support Waterbirth Research!

Morristown Medical Center and our clients will be contributing toward the data that will ultimately prove the benefit & safety of waterbirth!

11/02/2016

So cool!

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09/06/2016

If you were unable to attend the Improving Birth Rally on Labor Day, we are publishing Lisa Lederer’s speech. Lisa Lederer's Speech at the Labor Day Improv

09/04/2016

The reason for our Improving Birth Rally.

09/04/2016

Please make our event a huge success and maybe win a night out!

The largest individual donation to ImprovingBirth.org will win this basket which includes a night stay at the Hilton Garden Inn in Rockaway, New Jersey. Thank you to the Hilton for the donation. The Midwives of New Jersey will add a gift certificate to the Olive Garden for Dinner. See below to donate on our eTapestry account or donate at the rally tomorrow! We would love New Jersey to have the largest donation in the country!

09/04/2016

Even a small amount will make a big difference. Please donate!

A massive uprising is on the horizon. Thousands of men, women and children will gather this September at locations throughout the country in a “Rally to Improve Birth”. This movement isn’t about natural birth vs. medicated birth. It’s not about hospital birth vs. homebirth or birth center birth. It’...

09/04/2016

TOMORROW is the day! We are hoping the New Jersey Rally is the BIGGEST one in the Nation and raises the most money for this worthy cause!

08/24/2016

If you are coming to our , below is a list of suggestions for your poster! Feel free to use any of these. Also- please do not attach a stick to your poster, we will just be holding them up with our hands!

Main Messages:
Break the Silence
Informed Consent & Refusal
Respectful Care / Respect in Birth

Secondary Messages:
Evidence-Based Care (Please note this replaces “Evidence Based Birth”)
African American Babies are 2-3x as likely to be born too soon,
too small, too sick to survive
African American Women are 3-4x as likely to be harmed or die during childbirth
ImprovingBirth.org
Know Your Options
Vaginal Birth After Cesarean
Fewer Preventable C-Sections
Question Your Induction
Birth Matters
We Can Do Better!
Family-Centered Care

08/22/2016

Access to VBAC is the focus of Improving Birth's Rally this year. And we REALLY need that access in New Jersey! Please plan to attend our 2016 Rally to Improve Birth. (see the EVENT page)

Consumer Reports finds C-section rates vary from hospital to hospital and explains when cesareans are and aren't necessary. Read on for more on what you need to know.

08/21/2016

the Obstetricains agree-this year their National Organization upholds women's rights to make decisions for themselves and their babies. How does this apply to hospital policies that don't
"ALLOW" choices like VBAC or WATERBIRTH????????

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ Committee on Ethics released a new “Committee Opinion” this month that outlines what doctors should do when a woman refuses the treatment recommended to her by an obstetrician. A desire to protect the health and safety of the unborn baby may b...

08/20/2016

This is a quote from The Price of Apathy. All midwives want what is best for Mothers and Babies but YOU, the Mothers and Babies have to fight for it!
"Some of these women have lashed out at me, saying, “Why aren’t the midwives doing something to change that?” And I get off the phone and think--you have no idea how much effort I have put into “saving” VBACs. You also have no idea how many women I have hung in there with in labor--far beyond what most practitioners would consider reasonable--so they wouldn’t have to face the VBAC fight with their next pregnancy.
I cannot tell “The Man” what you want. You have to tell him what you want. And keep telling Him. Again and again and again."

The most important “stakeholder” in the childbirth choice game is the consumer. But no one came to the meeting.