This birth story, in honor of Cesarean Awareness Month (CAM), comes from Nikki Hauser. To have your birth story posted on this blog, email it to: blog@ican-online.org Beanling’s birth timeline Monday 8/9/10 was my 41 week 2 day appointment with Doc Tate. Went out to the office, has my NST (little girl did well) and…
Have you seen Al Jazeera’s new documentary – “Birthrights” – about cesarean and VBAC in the United States? It features ICAN of Atlanta and others in our birthing community. Check it out!
This birth story, in honor of Cesarean Awareness Month (CAM), comes from Nikki Hauser. To have your birth story posted on this blog, email it to: blog@ican-online.org I wrote this when I was 19 days PP with Doomling, my son. Okay, I finally have time to type this up. I will say it ended up…
Contrary to popular belief, cesareans don’t protect women from incontinence. According to a new study, women who have had only cesareans are less likely to have urinary incontinence than women who have had all vaginal or both cesarean and vaginal births. However, rates of urinary incontinence are still relatively high (40%) among women who have…
Congratulations to Bronwyn Fackrell, winner of the 2011 ICAN Survey Sweepstakes! A few weeks ago, ICAN posted a survey asking for feedback. Bronwyn was the lucky winner of a drawing for a giftcard to the ICAN bookstore as a thank you for participating. Thank you to everyone who participated, more surveys are coming soon!
