Brazilian women rebel against cesarean births [1]

Bangor Daily News

By JULIANA BARBASSA, The Associated Press

Posted Aug. 08, 2012, at 4:28 p.m.

RIO DE JANEIRO — From the day Mariana Migon discovered she was pregnant, she knew she wanted a natural birth. So just weeks before her due date, the first-time mother abandoned her obstetrician, her health plan, and her private hospital room for the free public hospital in downtown Rio — where she had a real chance at a vaginal birth.

“If I’d stayed with my health care plan and my doctor, I would have had a C-section,” said Migon, as she sat beside the incubator holding her baby girl, who was premature.

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