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Birthrites: Healing After Caesarean aims to provide a support network for women who've had a previous c/section(s), and to increase the awareness of these women's needs to their health-carers within the medical profession. We aim to do this by:

    1) Providing telephone contacts - someone to talk to who knows what you've experienced, as they've had a c/section themselves.

    2) Monthly "Get-Togethers" in Perth.

    3) To increase women's awareness of birth choices via a suggested reading list, the Internet and by talking to health carers.

    4) To increase public, and medical, awareness of the increasing c/section rate and inform them of the safety of Vaginal Birth After Caesarean (VBAC), in most cases.

    5) To return some women's rituals to birth, whether that birth is a VBAC or a caesarean section (Empowered Birth After Caesarean - EBAC).