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From the Childbirth Connection (formerly Maternity Care Association):

Know your facts when you discuss maternity care in the US. We have compiled a brief, new resource document called “United States Maternity Care Facts and Figures.” It details current statistics including the number of births, proportion of hospital care that is devoted to the care of pregnant women and babies, maternity outcomes such as preterm birth and low birthweight rates, as well as statistics about paying for maternity care. Sadly, many of the numbers are sobering. The 2007 cesarean rate of 31.8% marked the 11th consecutive year of increase and a record-level national rate. The rate of vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) within childbirth related hospitalizations was 9.7% in 2006, a decline of 73% from 1997, when the VBAC rate was 35.3%. Learn more in United States Maternity Care Facts and Figures – December 2009.

 

 

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November 24, 2010 
 

Dr. George Morley wrote this letter to midwives he spoke with at the 2010 MANA conference:

 
"Meeting and talking with you reinforced my conviction that you are the foremost profession in promoting and providing the very best in newborn and maternal health and well-being.

 

 

 
  In this regard, the current practice of cord clamping is my major dispute with my own profession, and I have a "fellow traveler" in the UK, Dr. D. Hutchon, who recently published a communication in the BMJ regarding immediate clamping of the cord.  The article has generated several "rapid responses," and gave me the opportunity to exploit and advertise your expertise in umbilical cord management.
 
  Hopefully, it will help to change the medical profession's stance in the direction of your standard of excellence.  Several of you mentioned that I was "preaching to the choir!"  Maybe the congregation will start listening to the choir.
 
  The following address will give you Dr. Hutchon's paper:
 
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