ICAN Accreta Awareness Month – Katie’s Birth Story
I had my first son in October 2009. He was 10 days late and after being induced for over 24 hours and having “failure to progress” during labor the doctor said that we could do the cesarean now or we could continue the induction the next day. I was tired and realized another day of induction would […]
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 – Connecting with Social Media
One of the ways ICAN honors every woman and family that has experienced a form of placenta accreta is by holding space for them in ICAN’s Accreta Awareness Facebook group. Considered as sacred as an ICAN meeting, this group is a safe place of confidentiality for those facing a diagnosis of accreta, percreta, increta, and previa and the wide range […]
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 […]
Day 11 – Stephanie’s Birth Story
I went in for a routine mid-pregnancy scan at 20 weeks and was sent home after being told everything looked good. The next morning I got a phone call from my OB telling me that it looked like I had complete placenta previa and possibly vasa previa. I was told not to google (I did) […]
NOVA Chapters of ICAN and Hope for Accreta Hold Blood Drives
Most people have heard of a cesarean birth but few have ever heard of the life-threatening pregnancy complication called Placenta Accreta that is a potential risk of future cesarean births. The Northern Virginia chapters of ICAN and Hope for Accreta Foundation are hosting two blood drive events to help save the lives of these mothers. Both organizations are coming together to […]
