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  • ICAN President Christa Billings Talks to Science & Sensibility!
    It’s April and Cesarean Awareness Month! Check out this interview our president did with Science and Sensibility in recognition of CAM. […]
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  • Press Release: Threats to Rights of Pregnant Women
    For Immediate Release Contact: Cristen Pascucci March 13, 2013 Phone: (443) 622-2892 ImprovingBirth.org and International Cesarean Awareness Network Address Threats to Rights of Pregnant Women With protections for mothers under threat, advocacy groups call for solutions San Diego, CA–Maternity care advocacy groups speak out on the heels of last week’s public […]
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  • Lauren’s Birth–Beginning the Process
    Let me start by saying that when I got pregnant, a c-section was the furthest thing from my mind. My husband and I were living in Hattiesburg, MS when we found out and I was bemoaning the lack of birthing centers. There were was a group of midwives in a city 2 hours away, but […]
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  • Pam’s VBAC of Luis
    This is Pam’s 3rd and final VBAC story.  Her first two VBAC stories were featured earlier this week on the Blog. I was 41 weeks pregnant with our fourth child and had been having irregular contractions all day when I decided I needed to go birthday shopping for my husband, whose birthday was the next day. […]
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  • Pam’s VBAC of Raquel
    This is Pam’s 2nd VBAC.  The story of her first VBAC was published earlier this week on the Blog. Raquel’s birth once again proved the old adage: Expect the unexpected. My pregnancy was nearly perfect, so while I expected to pass my due date, I was somewhat surprised to find myself still pregnant after 41 weeks. Though […]
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New Jersey

Dr Abdelhak from hackensack nj is a phenomenal VBAC supportive doctor. His patients dub him “captain vbac”!!! He even is an advocate of VBA2C and has delivered many twins and even triplets vaginaly ….He is a great high risk Dr and recently took in a midwife KRISTIN who is also a huge vbac advocate.” ~Ty

New Jersey Midwives – Region II Chapter 2 of the American College of Nurse-Midwives

Tina M. Alessi, CNM
973-683-1400
111 Madison Av Ste. 305
Morristown, NJ 07960
or 908-719-4900
2345 Lamington Rd, Ste. 107
Bedminster, NJ 07921

Alison Stone
111 Madison Avenue
Morristown, NJ 07960
(973) 683-1400
reveiw of Alison

Dr. Winsome Parchment
973-313-2501
1973 Springfield Avenue
Maplewood, NJ 07040

Midwifery Care Associates
2490 Penningtonn Rd.
Pennington, NJ
609-737-7512

Denise Priestly CNM & Andrea Lindstrom CNM
North Dover Ob-Gyn Associates
222 Oak Ave
Toms River, NJ 08753
732-914-1919

Dina Aurichio, LM, CPM, CCE
333 River Road
Branchburg , NJ
Phone: 908-575-3282
newbirthexperiences

Porsch Kathleen CNM
79 Route 37 W #101
Toms River, NJ 08755
732-244-9444

Dr. Michelle Aristizabal, Montclair, NJ.

Lawrence Ob/Gyn and Associates
123 Franklin Corner Road, Suite 214
Lawrenceville, NJ  08648
(609) 896-1400

Marilyn A. Baker, C.N.M.
Johanna P. Delongaig, C.N.M.
JoAnne Forsyth Healey, C.N.M.
Yelena Laber, C.N.M.

of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
RWJ OB/GYN Group Hamilton
One Hamilton Health Place
Hamilton, New Jersey 08690
(609) 631-6899

Glad to find your website. The Center for Women’s Health is supportive of Vbacs. This is particularly important if you want to deliver at Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, NJ–very very very few doctors who cover there will do Vbacs. it has one of the highest c- section rates in the country! But the Center for Women’s Health will do them, as will the docs who cover them. I am still pregnant so I am waiting to see how that support translates into reality. But at least they are willing to consider it!

http://www.tcwh.medem.com/home.htm

Englewood Hospital does Vbacs, and Dr. Nofit Weiss’s practice is supposed to be good. A friend trying for a Vbac at Englewood had a lot of options. There is at least one doc at Holy Name Hospital in Teaneck who does them (don’t know his name)–he supports a large orthodox jewish population who want to have lots of kids, so the limits c-sections place on having large families is important to them. I have been told that Hackensack Hospital does not have a ban but is not vbac-supportive.

*http://newjerseymidwives.net/

Dr. Talia Rosenzweig at Monmouth 732-741-3331

maternalresources.com

Yaakov Abdelhak, MD
Maternal Resources
55 Old Nyack Turnpike
Suite 405
Nanuet NY 10954
(although located in NY, he provides service for NJ residents)

More places to look:

NJ Maternity Care: Worst to First Campaign 2010
http://www.njmaternitycare.com/