Julie Francom joins Meagan on the podcast to talk about checking the validity of the information you see surrounding VBAC. There is so much information out there and so much misinformation that we want to help you figure out what is actually evidence-based! 

Julie and Meagan draw on their personal experiences with making corrections to information they understood and have shared. They talk about how the structure, size, and date of a study can influence the statistics. Julie shares why Cochrane reviews are her favorite.

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Full Transcript under Episode Details 

03:30 Checking the validity of social media posts

08:01 Our corrected post about VBA2C

12:56 The production behind a statistic or article

18:37 Cochrane reviews

19:06 Checking the dates of studies and emailing us for verification

23:29 Nuchal cords

25:21 Julie’s sleep training story

29:45 Information at your fingertips

Meagan: Hey, hey everybody. Guess what? We have Julie today on the podcast. 

Julie: Hey. 

Meagan: Hey. We’re going to be doing a short but sweet, maybe also a little sassy because as Julie has said, she likes to get sassy these days. 

We’re going to do a short but sweet episode on how to tell if VBAC or HBAC or really just anything–

Julie: Any. 

Meagan: Yeah, any information you see online is real or fake. Now, if you’re following along on our social media, you likely have seen a lot of our myth and fact posts. I think we share them probably once a week honestly because there really are so many things out there that are myths and things that are facts, but on a whole other side and a whole addition to myth and fact is really what should we be believing? What should we be resharing? Right, Julie? I think that this definitely is something that is close to our hearts at least I’m going to say is close to my heart. I think it’s close to Julie’s heart. 

Julie: Oh, for sure. 

Meagan: We want to protect this community and we want this community to find the real information, and not the false information. We know. You can Google anything. 

Julie: So much false information. 

Meagan: You can Google anything and find the real and false information but when it comes to VBAC, like she said, so much false information. 

We’re not even going to do a Review of the Week. We are going to jump right in in just a second after the intro. 

03:30 Checking the validity of social media posts

Meagan: All right, Julie. Are you ready to get spicy?

Julie: Yeah, I think maybe the biggest reason we decided to do this episode and at least for me anyway why I brought it up is because there is so much information out there that looks good, right? You can be like, Oh my gosh, yes. This is amazing. We’re passionate. We as in me and Meagan, but we as in you too who is listening. Clearly, you’re passionate. 

But we really need to be careful what we’re sharing both from our business accounts and what we’re resharing from other people because sometimes if you share this information and it’s incorrect and wrong and it goes viral which there is a recent post that has and sparked this thing, and we’re not going to call anybody out, but when you share misinformation and it goes big and people start believing this incorrect information, it can really do