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The Commonwealth Midwives Alliance, Virginia ACNM, and Birth Matters have proposed a Virginia Midwives License Plate

We need 350 pre-ordered to have this license plate produced. Each plate requires a filled out application and a $10special license plate fee (this is in addition to your annual vehicle registration fee). Get your application form here:

Special Plate Application Form

Send your completed form and check to:
Jeni Rector
419 Adwood Court, Hampton, VA 23605-1422

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Check out this link for more news about birth centers: Washington Post

This D.C. birth center, located in a district with one of the highest infant mortality rates in the U. S., showed a significant decrease in low birth weight babies.

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National Cesarean section rates increase to 30%!

Preliminary statistics released from the Centers for Disease Control show c-section rates continued to rise in 2005.

The average birth center has only a 5% c-section rate for the same low risk population. 

TRANSLATION:

Hospital births:

1 in every 3 every women will have a C-section

Birth Center births:

Only 1 in 20 women will have to have a C-section

(Currently there are at least 800 Cesarean sections performed in the Roanoke Valley every year.)

 

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More statistics:

In 2005, the local Perinatal Mortality Review Team made over 40 recommendations for improvement in prenatal care in the Roanoke Valley. 

 

New Life Birth Center
PO Box 21461
Roanoke, VA 24018

For more information contact:
Karen Winstead
info@newlifebirthcenter.net
540.798.4064 cell

Children are a gift of the Lord; the fruit of the womb is a reward. Psalm 127.3
   
 


 
 (American Association of Birth Centers, 2004).
 
 
 
 

Excerpts from recent literature:

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
(December 2006) 195, 1538?43

Planned cesarean vs. planned vaginal delivery at term:
Comparison of newborn infant outcomes

"Devendra and Arulkumaran25 report that, despite dramatic improvements in the safety of anesthesia and surgery, mortality and morbidity rates for both mother and child are greater for elective cesarean deliveries compared with vaginal deliveries."

"The incidence of perinatal death probably will not be reduced by a policy of universal elective cesarean delivery, because this procedure carries a risk of iatrogenic neonatal morbidity and death. The legal and ethical issues of request cesarean deliveries are complex, and the validity of informed consent for nonindicated surgery is unclear.1,2,25"

"For the child, the stress of vaginal delivery seems superior to elective cesarean delivery in many situations. Therefore, we emphasize the importance of limiting planned cesarean deliveries to cases with proven benefit for the mother and/or child. When a planned cesarean delivery is chosen, the operation should be as close to term as possible."