Celebrating 30 Years of ICAN: 30 Crafts–Birth Day Cake
To welcome our youngest the older children asked if we could put a zero candle on top of the cupcakes, then sing “Happy Birth Day!” It was a joyous welcome as we introduced them to our new baby.
To welcome our youngest the older children asked if we could put a zero candle on top of the cupcakes, then sing “Happy Birth Day!” It was a joyous welcome as we introduced them to our new baby.
I had a CBAC May 25, 2010 at 7am. I have never written his birth story. I am sad, disappointed, let down, confused, bitter, angry- all of the above. I studied and changed doctors and read. I will never hold a baby in my arms directly after birth. I will never have that pure bliss…
Q’s Birth Story At approximately 2am on November 6, 2008 I started to get back pain that woke me up. I was uncomfortable lying in bed so I went to the couch to try and get back to sleep. The couch was more comfortable because I could sit slightly upright, so I stayed there until…
This birth story, in honor of Cesarean Awareness Month (CAM), comes from Cortney Speir. To have your birth story posted on this blog, email it to: blog@ican-online.org I lay there unable to move, unable to speak, unable to breathe. I was opening my mouth, gasping for air, but nothing. I kept opening and closing. Open…close…open…close…NOTHING….
A report on Enterprisenews.com would have us all believe that the cesarean rate in the U.S. is being driven in some significant way by mothers demanding elective cesareans with hapless obstetricians following their orders. But is this true? While the Enterprise article cites the experiences of medical personnel in one Massachusetts city, researchers…
18 months ago I delivered our first child, a healthy boy named Vance, by cesarean section. It was a completely unplanned emergency surgery that was far from the natural birth my husband and I had hoped and planned for. My birth experience left me feeling broken and heavy hearted; emotions that were in complete…
A Wish, A Prayer and a Special Scar With each of my three children, my views about birth have changed and grown and matured based on the birth experience I had with each of them. But none of my three pregnancies and births changed me quite as much as the birth of my third child…