ICAN’s Advocacy Director Gretchen Humphries posed with Peggy Robertson who testified before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee about her insurance denial due to previous cesarean on October 15th. Read more about Peggy’s story here.
ICAN on Capitol Hill Read More »
Your weekly one-stop for highlights from the birth blogosphere. Visit weekly for the latest on childbirth, especially related to cesarean prevention, recovery, and VBAC. To nominate a blog post to be featured here, email me at blog@ican-online.org Patti Ramos – Detached: Perhaps the most heart-wrenching and amazing photo of the cesarean experience I’ve seen to-date.
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Those who attended the ICAN conference last April might remember the stunning black and white photographic image at the silent auction table. It was a very challenging image and generated a lot of conversation. Such stark representations of inner emotions can be important points of catharsis in our healing journey. Jennifer McNichols is a cesarean
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The Colorado Independent has published an article chronicling one reporter’s quest to find non-employer-based maternity coverage in Colorado. In advance of a bill in the state legislature that would require Colorado’s insurance companies to cover maternity, The Colorado Independent searched for non-employer-based maternity health insurance. How did it go? It was unbelievably frustrating. Posing as
Had a cesarean? No maternity coverage for you in CO Read More »
Your weekly one-stop for highlights from the birth blogosphere. Visit weekly for the latest on childbirth, especially related to cesarean prevention, recovery, and VBAC. To nominate a blog post to be featured here, email me at blog@ican-online.org VBAC Facts – Finding VBAC Statistics for Your Hospital and State: Jen responds to one reader with tips
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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 bloggers 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 be
Your weekly one-stop for highlights from the birth blogosphere. Visit weekly for the latest on childbirth, especially related to cesarean prevention, recovery, and VBAC. To nominate a blog post to be featured here, email me at blog@ican-online.org Patti Ramos – Victorious Birth After Previous Cesarean: Photos and story from a VBAC of a 11 pound,
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by Krista Cornish-Scott Sarah (our regular blogger) found this link the other day, and I was drawn into the story immediately, not least because of the fabulous pictures which seemed to so perfectly capture the souls of this family. As I read further I found myself shaking my head at the all-too-common story of the
Mother-Sized Activism: The Story of Myshell & Hannibal Read More »
Many in the blogosphere are familiar with Lindsay Meehelis’ beautiful video about her VBAC journey. Lindsey recently sent her video to ICAN saying, “I am a HUGE supporter of ICAN and believe that it was a great resource for helping me achieve my VBAC that I recently had. I have made a video about my
Interview with Lindsey Meehleis: My Journey to VBAC Read More »
ACOG may want to revise its VBAC guidelines after reading this heartwarming story of a mother who, despite being scheduled for her fourth c-section gave birth safely at home with the help of her toddler. No surgeon or anesthesiologist were in sight. The 2-year-old was calm. “I laid on the couch and he went and
Unplanned VBAC assisted by two-year-old Read More »
