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For more info: www.ican-online.org

ICAN's mission is to improve maternal-child health by reducing preventable cesareans through education, supporting cesarean recovery, and advocating for vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC).

12/10/2026

National Meeting Reminder

Oct 14 8:30pm ET

All are welcome. Whether you’re newly pregnant, newly postpartum, somewhere on the healing journey, or a longtime advocate, please join us to receive and offer others support!

Google Meet Link can be found on our website ICAN-online.org

13/08/2026

We need your help! Design needed for Giving Day. The design will be put on stickers, totes, and the CAM Shirt next year. Funds raised will allow ICAN to continue educating and advocating for our community!

Send your ideas to: [email protected]

04/08/2026

Meeting Alert
This month’s meeting will be held on
Aug 12, 2026
8:30pmET/ 7:30pmCT/ 5:30pmPT
We share stories, fears, and sometimes tears. All are welcome.
Meeting link:
https://tinyurl.com/ICANMeeting

09/07/2026

Tonight!!

Virtual meeting:
https://tinyurl.com/ICANMeeting

Our next meeting is tonight! Wednesday, July 8th at 8:30 PM Eastern.

We’d love to see you there! ❤️

08/06/2026

Hey everyone! Just a heads-up that our website is currently down, so we’ve set up a link for our national meeting.

Virtual meeting: https://tinyurl.com/ICANMeeting

Our next meeting is this week! Wednesday, June 10th at 8:30 PM Eastern.

We’d love to see you there! ❤️

14/05/2026

ICAN is a community where everyone is truly rooting for each other. All are welcome to our monthly national meeting.

Meeting: Today, Wednesday 4/13/26 at 8:30pm Eastern / 5:30pm Pacific.
https://meet.google.com/idi-bkda-hdw

16/04/2026

Join Kristine Lauria, an internationally recognized midwife dedicated to supporting women’s autonomy in medical decision-making and physiological, undisturbed birth.

Register: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lMulJtz4Tl2-xZduUTbHVA #/registration

When a baby remains in a breech presentation late into pregnancy, families are often not presented with options other than cesarean section. I will discuss all options, including planning a cesarean, vaginal breech birth and external cephalic version (ECV), and the risks and benefits of each. Understanding what each pathway involves is key to making an informed decision.

In recent years, she has devoted significant time to humanitarian work with Doctors Without Borders (MSF), providing essential reproductive health care in low-resource settings. She specializes in breech and twins and travels worldwide teaching those skills to midwives.

Her inspiring life and work is featured in the upcoming documentary Allowed to Birth – The Journey of a Global Midwife premiering this fall.

15/04/2026

Framing an intervention as "routine" or "policy" makes the mother feel like she has no legal or medical right to refuse, which is entirely false. Hospital policy is not law, and it does not override bodily autonomy.

"It is our policy that you have continuous fetal monitoring."

"This is just standard protocol for a VBAC."

"Everyone gets an IV when they are admitted, it is just what we do."

Support our mission and buy a shirt: https://www.bonfire.com/cesarean-awareness-month-2026/

14/04/2026

What does TRUE informed consent look like?

Complete Information: Being told the benefits, the risks, AND the alternatives of an intervention in an objective, evidence-based way.

Autonomy: The absolute freedom to say "yes," "no," or "not right now" without being threatened, shamed, or punished.

Respect: A provider who listens to your concerns and works with you, rather than talking at you or rushing you (except in a true, immediate, crashing emergency).

Support ICAN's mission by purchasing a shirt: https://www.bonfire.com/cesarean-awareness-month-2026/

13/04/2026

If your provider treats consent like a hurdle to clear rather than a dialogue to have, they aren’t practicing informed consent. They are practicing medical management. We are advocating for a system where the conversation is the standard instead of the exception.

Help: https://www.bonfire.com/cesarean-awareness-month-2026/

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