Celebrating 30 Years of ICAN: 30 Quotes
“We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.”
~Laura Stavoe Harm
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Healing the body mind heart with Arvigo Technique of Maya Abdominal Massage after your cesarean section. Delivering your baby via cesarean section is a special event for both mother and baby. As the transition into motherhood reaches a climax with the birth, those who must heal from surgery afterward have added challenges and needs. Maya…
Celebrating 30 Years of ICAN: 30 Blogs We Love–Research Blogs
There are many wonderful blogs out there, so we mean for this to be just a little taste of places to start your reading and research. In no particular order, here are 5 of our favorite research blogs*: Stand and Deliver–Canadian writer and blogger Rixa Freeze received a master’s degree in American history from Ohio…
More hospitals put an end to early cesarean deliveries
There appears to be a new trend in hospitals–refusing to deliver babies electively before 39 weeks. On the heels of the news of Banner hospitals putting an end to early elective inductions and cesareans and Louisiana hospitals doing the same, comes the news out of Oregon that seventeen hospitals in the state will also not…
In case you missed it
July 5, Shari Criso hosted a live (at the time) 2 hour discussion on her weekly web TV show entitled “Cesarean Births in America.” Joining her were Gina Crosley-Corcoran of The Feminist Breeder, Jill Arnold of The Unnecesarean and ICAN’s own President, Desirre Andrews. A really wonderful show with lots of information sharing and stimulating…
Best of the Birth Blogs – Week Ending December 13th
Your weekly one-stop for highlights from the birth blogosphere. Visit weekly for the latest on childbirth, especially related to cesarean prevention, recovery, and VBAC. To nominate a blog post to be featured here, email me at blog@ican-online.org Science & Sensibility – A Case of Statistical Malpractice? Predicting the Risk of Uterine Rupture: Amy Romano calls…
Christina's CBAC
Stuck at ten…again Pre Labor I did everything I could do to stack the cards in my favor for a VBAC. I fired 2 different OB groups, joined ICAN Westchester, NY and started seeing a group with 2 OBs and 6 midwives 40 minutes north of me. I found an amazing hospital, Hudson Valley Hospital…