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International Cesarean Awareness Network
Educating, advocating, and supporting your birth experience
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Cesarean Awareness Month (CAM)!
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Monthly National Meetings!
In addition to local chapter meetings, we also offer monthly national meetings on the second Wednesday of each month at 8:30pm Eastern / 5:30pm Pacific.
Bring your story, or listen to a story; bring questions, or answer a question. Get answers to your questions about maternal and fetal positioning exercises, posterior or breech, or anything related to the perinatal period from preconception to postpartum and beyond.
The International Cesarean Awareness Network is a non-profit organization whose mission is to improve maternal-child health by reducing preventable cesareans through education, supporting cesarean recovery, and advocating for vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC).
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Whether you are a professional who believes in our missional work, or an individual who has been impacted by our peer support or resources, we have different options to fit your needs.
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Start a Chapter
ICAN Chapters in local communities are the heart of our organization. If you don’t have one near you, consider starting one! Or join existing volunteer leadership as many hands make light work.
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ICAN needs volunteers to do the far reaching work at hand. We hope to grow committees focusing on education, advocacy, support, DEI, graphic design, web design, and more!
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Local Chapters
Support your chapter!
Local chapters are the beating heart of our organization. They know the birth culture, providers, and even laws and regulations that can affect birthers. Participate in peer to peer conversations, attend meetings, and spread the word (boost their social media and word of mouth)! If you join as an ICAN Member don’t forget to mark which chapter you’d like a portion of the member fee to go to!
ICAN Chapters
ICAN of Central Iowa chapter leaders tabling in the Iowa Capitol rotunda for the inaugural Maternal and Infant Health Day.
ICAN has educated me on my rights and the choices I can make in delivery. The leaders and fellow meeting attendants helped me to realize my first birth should not have gone the way it did, and have helped me to heal emotionally from it.
Huntsville, ALMaternity Care Consumer
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Your story is so important, and could help so many people. Many people also find healing in writing and sharing, or making their art. We love to receive birth stories, photos, slide shows, and birth art!
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Volunteers keep us going, but dollars keep the lights on! Donations are tax deductible, we are a 501c3. Learn about the many ways to give to ICAN!
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Participate
Be active parts of our Awareness Campaigns! Share toolkits, enter our T-Shirt Contests, Give blood at our Accreta Awareness blood drives, smash the share button on social media posts, wear your aWEARness CAM (cesarean awareness month) t-shirt with pride! Follow us for even more!
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