ICAN President on the Radio
ICAN President Desirre Andrews was interviewed this morning on KPFT out of Houston, TX during the Whole Mother show. You can listen here.
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We Freakin' Did it: A Freewheelin' VBA3C in Milwaukee
A beautiful birth story is making the rounds online. What makes this particular story so inspiring is the fact that it shouldn’t have happened, at least not by current obstetric practice standards. Annmarie Schulte gave birth to her first three children by cesarean, a fact that should have landed her square in the OR for
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Guest Blogger: Is a Woman in Labor a “Person”? New Assaults on Pregnant Women’s Civil Rights in NJ Case
Bringing ICAN’s 25-year-plus tradition of support and education in the mother-to-mother and sister-to-sister model into the internet age, we have invited passionate blogging women to join us around our virtual circle of women. We hope to introduce you to new voices that you have not heard before, and also to respected voices that will already
Ricki Lake's New Celebrity Birth Series
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Amy Slotnick My Best Birth Amy@mybestbirth.com (646) 335-2684 RICKI LAKE LAUNCHES EXCLUSIVE CELEBRITY WEBISODE SERIES ON MYBESTBIRTH.COM Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington, Laila Ali, Melissa Joan Hart, Alyson Hannigan are among featured celebrities sharing personal birth stories as part of the series Los Angeles, June 25, 2009–Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein, the
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What I Love About My Cesarean
Jasmine Ojala is a mother of two children and a member of ICAN of the Twin Cities. In this post she shares her reflections on what she’s learned from her births. I have learned and grown so much through my two birth experiences. I had a traumatic cesarean three and a half years ago and
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Are Mothers Driving Up the Cesarean Rate?
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
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Pitocin: A Cautionary Tale
The blogosphere lit up this last week with posts about “pit to distress” (see here, and here), the practice of administering the maximum dose of Pitocin (synthetic oxytocin) to a laboring women until the baby shows signs of distress. Such overuse (and misuse) of Pitocin in labor raises the risk of cesarean, traumatic vaginal delivery,
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Insurance Denial for Cesarean Illegal in MN
As of August 1st, it will be illegal for insurance companies to deny coverage to women with a previous cesarean in the state of Minnesota. The Twin Cities chapter of ICAN worked along with the Minnesota Better Birth Coalition to promote this legislation. State Senator John Marty introduced the bill, joined by Senators Prettner-Solon, Pappas,
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"A Healthy Baby is All that Matters"
by Sheila Stubbs 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 but there isn’t
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The Birth Story of Kenna Joy
by Krista Cornish Scott, ICAN Chapter Director photo credit: Ken Stigler WARNING: the pictures are not graphic but they do have a bit of blood in them, if you are squeamish. Also there are two curse words in the story that are edited but it’s obvious what they are. Please note the dates on the
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