Hey, ICAN Blog Readers! I just wanted to let everyone know that the Blog may be going down for a bit soon as we are working on our exciting website upgrade coming soon!  The upgrade is scheduled to start sometime on August 31 and the main ICAN site will be down on September 1 as

A news article released online this week detailed plans for a new study to be conducted by Dr. Stephen Robson, an associate professor of obstetrics at Australian National University.  Dr. Robson is recruiting 1000 women, 500 planning cesarean births and 500 planning vaginal births and will measure both physical and psychological outcomes, according to the

Today, I’m honored to share with you the story of Elizabeth’s HBA2C.  Her whole pregnancy, she said “I just want to be the first one to hold my baby.”  Just last week, on August 11, 2011, she got her wish when her third daughter was born at home in the water. To fully tell my

The ban on pre-term elective deliveries rolling through many hospitals in the country right now has hit Portland, and now all 17 Portland area hospitals are putting what they call a “hard stop” on all elective cesareans and inductions before 39 weeks of gestation starting September 1.  The Portland Tribune is reporting the story online

When discussing the options of VBAC or repeat cesarean section, it is often said that it doesn’t really matter how the baby gets here, as long as the mom and baby are both healthy, but is that completely true?  Yes, a healthy mom and healthy baby matter.  They matter very much.  But what is often

An article published yesterday revealed the findings of data collected from over 200 pregnancies which were diagnosed with fetal macrosomia based on ultrasound.  These results were reported at the annual meeting of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada.  According to the article, the data revealed that only about 1/3 of those diagnosed as

A couple months ago, a dear friend of mine linked me to this post, entitled “Cesarean Courage.”  It really resonated me with me for so many reasons.  When I was planning our HBAC attempt (and now planning our V/HBA2C for the future), people would often casually remark on how brave I was to be planning

There appears to be a new trend in hospitals–refusing to deliver babies electively before 39 weeks.  On the heels of the news of Banner hospitals putting an end to early elective inductions and cesareans and Louisiana hospitals doing the same, comes the news out of Oregon that seventeen hospitals in the state will also not

Kimberly of Labor Trials is sharing the story of her VBA2C baby, born just last month, in a planned HBA2C turned VBA2C.  Her story is an amazing tale of a VBA2C against all odds, and I am so happy to be able to share it with you today. VBA2C: Doing It ‘All Wrong’ I am

As promised yesterday, here is the story of Martha’s third baby, her first vaginal birth, a VBA2C.  And click here for her fourth baby’s birth story, an HBA2C! My first two babies entered this world via cesarean section, so when I was expecting my third baby I thought my only option was obvious: schedule a