NANCY WAINER COHEN founded CSEC, Inc., the first and largest cesarean prevention organization in the country, in 1973. Since 1972, she has counseled thousands of women in the areas of cesarean prevention and VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean--an acronym she coined). She continues individual counseling and also speaks throughout the country to pregnant women, childbirth educators, midwives, health professionals, and consumers. Ms. Wainer Cohen is the co-author of Silent Knife: Cesarean Prevention and Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (Bergin & Garvey, 1983).

• Introduction Hello Again! The Cutting Edge Open Season? Caught, Red-Handed!: The Status of Cesarean Section in the United States, Revisited Voices, Lowered Birthcrap! Interfearences and Interveintions, Once More My Aching Feet Bless the Beasts Divine Nonintervention Hospitals: Cesarean Baby Factories "The Tears Are the Healing" Learning as We Live! Childbirth Classes in the 1990s Birth! Not for VBACs Only Voices Raised!: Starfish Open Season! Postscript Afterword by Ester B. Zorn Appendix 1: Values Clarification Appendix 2: Addresses References Index

NANCY WAINER COHEN founded CSEC, Inc., the first and largest cesarean prevention organization in the country, in 1973. Since 1972, she has counseled thousands of women in the areas of cesarean prevention and VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean--an acronym she coined). She continues individual counseling and also speaks throughout the country to pregnant women, childbirth educators, midwives, health professionals, and consumers. Ms. Wainer Cohen is the co-author of Silent Knife: Cesarean Prevention and Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (Bergin & Garvey, 1983).

• Introduction Hello Again! The Cutting Edge Open Season? Caught, Red-Handed!: The Status of Cesarean Section in the United States, Revisited Voices, Lowered Birthcrap! Interfearences and Interveintions, Once More My Aching Feet Bless the Beasts Divine Nonintervention Hospitals: Cesarean Baby Factories "The Tears Are the Healing" Learning as We Live! Childbirth Classes in the 1990s Birth! Not for VBACs Only Voices Raised!: Starfish Open Season! Postscript Afterword by Ester B. Zorn Appendix 1: Values Clarification Appendix 2: Addresses References Index