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We’re excited to announce the upcoming opening of the Best Birth Clinic at BC Women’s on Tuesday, September 7th, 2010. We will be seeing women for the very first appointments when they can meet with an experienced maternity care provider to discuss up-to-date, evidence-based information on the benefits and risks [...]
Archive for September, 2010
In order to make the technical information in the NIH statement released by the expert panel a bit more understandable, Lamaze has put together a team of maternity care professionals, as well as mothers, researchers and advocates, to write a guide for navigating the NIH recommendations. The guide will be [...]
Following the NIH Consensus Conference Panel statement on VBAC, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) released new VBAC practice guidelines. These guidelines are based on the latest research on the safety of VBAC, which was also reviewed and discussed at the NIH conference, and are less restrictive toward [...]
NIH Panel Statement on Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC), and a new guide to help navigate it! In March 2010, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Consensus Development Conference on ‘Vaginal Birth After Cesarean: New Insights’ was held in Bethesda, Maryland. Members of the BC Women’s Cesarean Task Force from [...]