Day 8 – Accreta Awareness Shirt
The limited edition Accreta Awareness t-shirt sale is underway! Here’s an easy way to start conversations in your community about accreta and the risks of cesareans! Proceeds from the sale of the shirt will go to future accreta awareness efforts. Buy a shirt; promote the cause! . #ICANsavelives Read about ICAN’s Accreta Awareness Month. Save Save
Day 3 – Sleeves Up! Mother’s Experience Creates an Activist
My accreta baby is three years old. I am alive today to celebrate my baby’s third birthday because of blood donors. Even though I had very well trained and gifted surgeons, there came a point in my surgery when no matter what my surgeons did I would not have survived without blood transfusions. The human body only holds about […]
VBAC Blog Carnival: Why is VBAC a Vital Option?
As the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Consensus Development Conference on Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC) gets underway this morning, we bring you our first-ever ICAN Blog Carnival. We have invited bloggers to submit entries on the topic, “Why is VBAC a Vital Option?” and they have answered. Thanks to all the bloggers featured below […]
Announcing the ICAN VBAC Blog Carnival!
UPDATE:Read the VBAC Blog Carnival here! In light of the upcoming NIH VBAC Meetings, the ICAN blog would like you to be heard in our first-ever blog carnival.The NIH Meetings, to be held in Bethesda, MD from March 8-10, will gather “invited experts” to present evidence on the safety and availability of VBAC in the […]