Birthrites: Healing After Caesarean aims to provide a support network
for women who've had a previous c/section(s), and to increase the
awareness of these women's needs to their health-carers within the
medical profession. We aim to do this by:
1) Providing telephone contacts - someone to
talk to who knows what you've experienced, as they've had
a c/section themselves.
2) Monthly "Get-Togethers". Women can be around other like-minded
women, given a chance to talk about their experience and hear other
women's stories. Give and receive support from each other, over
coffee. Often a midwife attends the meeting. Dates are on our calendar.
3) To increase women's awareness of birth choices via
a suggested reading list, the internet and by talking to
health carers.
4) To increase public, and medical, awareness of the increasing
c/section rate and inform them of the safety of Vaginal Birth After
Caesarean (VBAC), in most cases.
5) To inform women of Birthrite's philosophy so they,
in turn, can support and encourage other women in their
search for a beautiful birth experience.
6) To return some women's rituals to birth, whether that birth
is a VBAC or a caesarean section (Empowered Birth After Caesarean
- EBAC).