The International Cesarean Awareness Network, Inc., USA

www.ican-online.org

Local ICAN chapters and members across the United States and other countries provide the opportunity to express childbirth-related feelings, information to help plan future births and VBAC (Vaginal Birth After Cesarean) and information to avoid unnecessary cesarean sections. Chapters may hold monthly meetings with speakers, videos and discussions addressing various childbirth related topics. The national newsletter, The Clarion, includes informative articles and inspiring birth stories.

Birthrites, Australia

www.birthrites.org

Healing After Caesarean aims to provide a worldwide support network for women who have had a previous c/section and to increase the awareness of these women's needs to their health-carers within the medical profession.

www.tabs.org.nz

"Some women who give birth by cesarean experience Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder symptoms (PTSD). Mental health professionals as well as medical providers have identifyed the experience as "Birth Trauma." Birth Trauma is also experienced by some women who have natural births.

www.birthcut.com

A mother who had her first child by cesarean writes, "Many women think that the feelings they have after a cesarean are wrong and they are afraid to share them with others, even loved ones. It has inspired me to create a place where these women can vent, share poetry, artwork, cesarean and VBAC birth stories and anything else that helps them through those painful feelings."

www.cares-sa.org.au

We aim to provide balanced, respectful and up-to-date information in regards to Caesarean Birth and Vaginal Birth After Caesarean. Our focus is on women healing from a previous traumatic or upsetting birth experience by caesarean, and helping women to achieve an empowering birth experience for their future births.

health.groups.yahoo.com/group/VBAC_HOPE/

VBAC Hope is a Christian list offering support and hope for women facing all aspects of Cesarean and VBAC, including HBAC (home birth after cesarean). This list is open to all, but it is a distinctly Christian list, and we expect that the tenets of the faith will be respected. So many of us believe that we went through the traumas of a section to be able to help others avoid an initial section and/or a repeat.

We offer research-based information and support on all aspects of Caesarean and vaginal birth following Caesarean sections.  We are able to sympathetically support a wide range of women's needs around Caesarean issues. We are used to dealing with those wishing to opt for and elective Caesarean section to those who wish to avoid a Caesarean even when an operative delivery may appear to be an obvious choice. We can offer one-to-one telephone support and written information including a comprehensive reading list, a wide range of articles and research papers.

www.hants.gov.uk/cousin/cousinweb/vbac.html

VBAC Information & Support was set up to help those women who wished to avoid un-necessary major abdominal surgery as a method of childbirth. We are the only one available within the UK and one of very few self help groups for VBAC information that are available around the world.

We offer information by post, support by telephone and moral encouragement all the time we do not think it is 'odd' or 'weird' to want a natural birth, even if the previous one was by caesarean. We will not tell you that you are 'endangering*' your own or your unborn baby's life by wanting, what is after all a natural desire, to have a baby the way in which nature intended. We just offer you the information that most of the maternity carers have neglected to tell you. (*medical data actually states unless obvious complications arise it is safer for both mother baby to have a vaginal birth.)

groups.yahoo.com/group/
Auterinerupturesupportgroup

A Uterine Rupture Support Group is a safe place to share your grief, thoughts and feelings regarding all aspects of suffering a uterine rupture. Our arms are always extending for you.

www.depressionafterdelivery.com

Depression After Delivery, Inc. is a national, nonprofit organization which provides support for women with ante and postpartum depression. Its focus includes education, information, support groups, telephone support and referral for women & families coping with mental health issues associated with childbearing, both during pregnancy and post partum.

The Birth Crisis Network

www.sheilakitzinger.com/Birth%20Crisis.htm

The Birth Crisis Network is a help line that women can ring if they want to talk about a traumatic birth. ...Many women who are suffering from having been disempowered in birth are treated by GPs with anti-depressant drugs, when what they really need is to be able to talk with someone who understands, who does not try to explain or justify the treatment they received, or to criticise them and the way they feel about what happened to them, and who knows how to listen reflectively.