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Editorial: The High Caesarean Rate
medical interventions, informed choice, vancouver bc, Birth, belly birth, caesarean, birth culture Stephanie Ondrack medical interventions, informed choice, vancouver bc, Birth, belly birth, caesarean, birth culture Stephanie Ondrack

Editorial: The High Caesarean Rate

The World Health Organization states that the Caesarean rate should ideally hover around 10%. Anything lower means parents and babies who might benefit from Caesarean births are not getting enough access, and anything higher means too many surgeries are being performed without any improvement in maternal or newborn outcomes.

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Ecstatic Belly Birth!
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Ecstatic Belly Birth!

In keeping with the Ecstatic Birth approach, Caesarean birth has the potential to be positive, empowering and ecstatic! How is this possible, you may ask? Having an Ecstatic Birth isn’t based on a particular set of circumstances, a specific outcome, or about birthing in a certain way. Ecstatic Birth is an invitation to turn our relationship to birth upside down and inside out to provide a pathway to feeling empowered, joyful and connected.

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