The purpose of The Birth Survey is to provide women with a venue to give feedback about their birth experiences with specific doctors, midwives, hospitals and birth centers, and to make this feedback available on this website as searchable reports. These reports currently include overall ratings but will over time expand to include detailed feedback. These searchable reports will be a resource to help other women and families to make more informed choices when choosing maternity care providers and birth settings and provide practitioners and institutions with feedback for quality of care improvement efforts.

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A searchable directory of hospitals and their policy on VBACs. Click on the name of the hospital for more information about that hospital, and to rate the hospital and make comments about it.

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Issue 119 - July/August 2003 of Mothering Magazine

We shuffled into the back room, leaving our pregnant partners to talk among themselves. Hunching around the table, we grinned at each other. Then, after some hushed banter, we started the guy talk. But that day we weren't talking about lousy bosses, the latest home-improvement project, or, for that matter, anything else you might expect a bunch of guys to sit around talking about. That day, we were classmates in Bradley natural childbirth classes, and were talking about the things we could do to make our partners more comfortable as they went into labor.

Read the full article here at Mothering Magazine.