Birth stories are important, for remembering and healing. Last year we posted 46 birth stories during Cesarean Awareness Month. Click here to read them. Let us know what touches you. Want to have your birth story posted on this blog? Email it to blog@ican-online.org.
April is Cesarean Awareness Month. The U.S. cesarean rate stands at 32.9%, but some states have rates of more than 40%. “Cesareans are far from the niche occurrence of yesteryear. Every woman in her childbearing years MUST sit up and take notice of this alarming and astonishing rate of surgical delivery,” says ICAN President Desirre…
ICAN’s upcoming conference (April 8-10) was recently featured in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. While the conference will cover issues, such as caring for a Caesarean scar, legislative advocacy and delivering breech babies, the weekend will focus on educating women and health-care professionals about the latest evidence regarding vaginal births after Caesareans, said conference director Maureen…
Amy Swagman is a mother, doula, and fine artist in Denver, CO. For the month of April in honor of Cesarean Awareness Month she will be donating 10% of all sales to ICAN, plus 20% of sales from her pieces on cesarean, healing, and VBAC. Amy will also be speaking on birth art and activism at…
If you are going to ICAN’s 2011 conference in St. Louis, don’t forget you can pre order the speakers books or Cesarean Voices. You must pay by paypal and pick it up at the conference. Check it out! https://www.ican-online.org/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=14&zenid=16fea0f01df587521574e999a99a6037 If you are going to ICAN’s 2011 conference in St. Louis, don’t forget you can pre-order the…
