Cathy’s Emergency Cesarean Birth Story
Share your story with ICAN to be featured on our Instagram and Facebook! All cesarean and birth-after-cesarean stories are welcome: the difficult, the triumphant, the still-processing, and the stories which haven’t yet been shared. Sharing your birth story can be freeing, healing and profoundly powerful. It can bring others hope, comfort, and reassurance that they […]
Rebecca’s Family Centered Cesarean
Share your story with ICAN to be featured on our Instagram and Facebook! All cesarean and birth-after-cesarean stories are welcome: the difficult, the triumphant, the still-processing, and the stories which haven’t yet been shared. Sharing your birth story can be freeing, healing and profoundly powerful. It can bring others hope, comfort, and reassurance that they […]
VBAC After Cesarean for Arrest of Descent or CPD
VBAC after Cesarean for Arrest of Descent or Cephalo-Pelvic Disproportion – written by Pamela Vireday A cesarean for “Arrest of Descent” means a cesarean done after a woman has dilated fully and pushed for a while without the baby descending. The amount of pushing time required for the diagnosis varies from source to source […]
Birth Story: Maria’s VBA2C
Originally published in 2012 Like all VBAC stories, mine starts with the birth of my first child. My oldest was breech from 19 weeks on to the end – the girl would not budge. We were in the midst of trying everything under the sun to flip her around and look for an OB who […]
2018 Cesarean Awareness Month T-Shirt Design Contest!
During Cesarean Awareness Month in April every year, we sell a t-shirt to bring in funds for our mission and to spread awareness through people wearing these t-shirts far and wide. This year we’ll be choosing our CAM shirt design from submissions from people like you! Beginning now, we will accept submissions of t-shirt designs […]
Of Evolution, Culture, and the Obstetrical Dilemma
This story originally appeared at Undark Magazine. By Josie Glausiusz, November 29, 2017 HARVEY KARP, THE BESTSELLING author of the “The Happiest Baby on the Block,” has some advice on his website for frazzled new parents: “Remember — your baby’s brain was so big that you had to ‘evict’ her after 9 months, even though she was still […]
Cesarean Myths: “Mothers are Demanding Cesareans!”
Originally published July 2009 A report on Enterprisenews.com would have us all believe that the cesarean rate in the U.S. is being driven in some significant way by mothers demanding elective cesareans with hapless obstetricians following their orders. But is this true? While the Enterprise article cites the experiences of medical personnel in one Massachusetts city, researchers […]
Cesarean Myths: “A Healthy Baby is All that Matters!”
Guest post by Sheila Stubbs, originally published June 2009 Sooner or later, it seems every woman who has had her baby delivered by cesarean section hears those words. While we’re very thankful for our healthy babies, the statement can leave a mother feeling like she doesn’t matter. I’ve been trying to think of some kind of analogy […]
Cesarean Scar Tattoos
Body art has existed for most of human history. Tattoos specifically can be found on mummies from several ancient cultures around the globe, the oldest dating back to the 4th millennium BCE. There are several reasons people choose to decorate their bodies permanently with ink – body image issues, marking a significant event, and even just […]
An Unexpected Birth Story – I Didn’t Love My Baby
By Payton Foeller My Birth Story: An Unexpected Turn I love my new life. I love my new baby and all my new things…But I also don’t like them sometimes. And sometimes I don’t like them a lot of the time. And sometimes I hate them. I look at my sweet baby and sometimes I […]
Previous Cesarean Increases Likelihood of Future Hysterectomy Complications
The International Cesarean Awareness Network is proud to have Henci Goer, medical author and international speaker, on our advisory committee. In addition to her books and numerous online writings, she is also the founder and director of Childbirth U, a website dedicated to educating pregnant women about their birth options. We have selected the following […]
CAPS for VBACS
In 2014, I was led down a path that I later learned often resulted in a C-Section. I knew I wanted to have a vaginal birth after a cesarean before I even knew what a VBAC was. Not even a couple months postpartum, I searched to learn what my options were for my future births. […]