On Monday, September 3rd, 2012–Labor Day–Improving Birth hosted a nationwide Rally for Change. The goal? To raise awareness about the unnecessarily high cesarean and induction rates, promote informed consent and birth options, and rally for evidence based care. Birth matters, birth is safe, and we can do better.
The rallies were held in every state, in over 100 cities, with nearly 10,000 total people in attendance. Our rally itself had about 80 people. There were several in IL, which is wonderful–our state is in desperate need of change and awareness. The rallies went from 10am to 12pm and many were covered by local news stations (here is our coverage).
You can find more information at Improving Birth and mark your calendars for the rally next year!!! This first year was a great success and I can’t wait until next year! Most rally locations made a facebook page, so you can search for one near you.
OMGosh! I so want to steal this for my blog! I love the “I was born at home” shirt!
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Brave, brave woman 🙂
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I think this is great! I recently (4 days ago to be exact) gave birth to my first baby and there was a lot of pressure & talk of induction but i refused and wanted and knew the importance of a full term & natural delivery. I think this is so important for women to read about and learn about otherwise they’ll be talked into it by many doctors!
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Thanks for posting this! Next year will be bigger and better; what an amazing event this is! @Kelly, I made a couple of little tees for my son by just cutting the bottom half off a onesie and writing on it with marker. (Photo here: http://thebestmomonearth.com/birth-stats/) Super easy and cost virtually nothing. I did “My mommy refused to induce me” and “I was born at 42 weeks” – two great conversation starters!
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this is great! so happy to read posts like this!:) adorable baby too
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thankyou for raising awareness!! i am such an advocate for this. everytime someone in my family is pregnant and they are talking about c sec i tell them the risks involved even on my 2nd time around giving birth it seemed like my doctor wanted me to have a csec bc my child was supposedly too big but i stay true to my beliefs and had a natural birth!
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babydickey Reply:
November 27th, 2012 at 9:39 am
Good for you! I agree, it’s so important! <3
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