ICAN Accreta Awareness Month – Life-Threatening Complication of Prior Cesarean
By The Well-Rounded Mama, September 4, 2013 Placenta Accreta, Part Two: Life-Threatening Complication of Prior Cesarean Read the full article here. Summary: Placenta accreta is a very serious complication of pregnancy after cesarean. Bleeding after the first trimester is the most important symptom and should always be evaluated. Although there are a number of risk […]
ICAN Accreta Awareness Month – The Aftermath of Accreta
A non-complicated vaginal delivery of a single child averages 500mL, approximately half a quart, of blood loss. A non-complicated cesarean delivery of a single child average 1,000mL, approximately one quart, of blood loss. Comparatively, the average blood loss during a placenta accreta delivery ranges from 3,000mL to 5,000mL. Our first story in The Aftermath of […]
ICAN Accreta Awareness Month – ACOG Speaks About Accreta
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ICAN Accreta Awareness Month – Sleeves Up! Donating Blood to Save Lives
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 […]
ICAN Accreta Awareness Month – What is Placenta Accreta?
By The Well-Rounded Mama, August 26, 2013 Placenta Accreta, Part One: What Is Accreta? Read the full article here. Summary: Placenta accreta comes in three levels of severity ─ accreta, increta, and percreta. Thankfully, most accretas don’t involve an increta or a percreta. However, even without these severe forms, an accreta is still a very […]
ICAN Awareness Month – Placenta Accreta: Multiple C-Sections Can Kill Mother
By Susan Donaldson James, April 18, 2011 Barbara George nearly hemorrhaged to death while doctors delivered her fifth child at Hackensack Medical Center in New Jersey — and that was in 2010, not 1910. The stay-at-home mother from South Orange was diagnosed with placenta accreta, a life-threatening condition where the placenta grows into the uterine wall […]
ICAN Accreta Awareness Month – Welcome to October 2017!
During the month of October, ICAN will be focused on bringing awareness to the condition of placenta accreta which is when the placenta attaches too deeply into the uterine wall. This condition carries a 7% mortality risk to the mom due to massive blood loss. Moms are normally made very aware of the risk of uterine […]
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 […]
P.O.S.T.B.I.R.T.H.
On August 17th, 2017, The National Accreta Foundation, The Institute for Perinatal Quality Improvement and The Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine pushed out an online awareness campaign on P.O.S.T.B.I.R.T.H. warning signs. What is this awareness campaign all about? P.O.S.T.B.I.R.T.H. is an acronym for postpartum complications warning signs that need immediate attention for the safety of […]
Empowered Birth
Empowered Birth. What does this mean? What does this look like? That is up to you. Does an empowered birth include one type of delivery, vaginal or cesarean, or any type of delivery? Does an empowered birth include pain medications or none? Does it include a top 10 list of items you can check off […]
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. […]
Have Cesareans Driven Evolution Toward Bigger Babies?
“The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.” Thomas Huxley Reverberating through the internet is an article by a group of scientists theorizing that cesarean availability has altered the course of human evolution, resulting in an epidemic of babies with heads too big to pass through their mother’s […]