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ICAN Conference 2011 Announced

From Maureen Finneran Hetrick, ICAN 2011 Conference Director:

We are excited to announce St. Louis, Missouri as the location of the ICAN Conference April 8 – 10, 2011!  St. Louis is a beautiful city with a large birth community, strong local support for ICAN, and plenty of free attractions for families.

This will be a first for the conference in many respects — the first conference in Central Time Zone, the first joint effort between two chapters (St. Louis and Kansas City), and best of all, the first time that a conference has been held within driving distance of 30 ICAN chapters! So if you are in Central Illinois, Kansas City, Louisville, South Suburbs (IL), DuPage, Chicago, Kane County, Nashville, NE Arkansas, Greater Cincinnati, Lake County, Dayton, NW Arkansas, Kenosha, Tulsa, Central Iowa, Omaha, Central Ohio, Huntsville, Chattanooga, Lincoln NE, Knoxville, Central Oklahoma, Jackson MS, Birmingham AL, Charleston WV, Ann Arbor, Atlanta and Greater Cleveland… you have no excuse but to save up and be there!

Mark your calendars and start saving your pennies and Meet Us in St. Louis in 2011!

original post from the ICAN blog.

Save the date for Birth in the Bluegrass 2010… Saturday, June 19, 2010.  The event will be from 10-2, and held at the U of L Shelby Campus, near the intersection of Shelbyville Rd and Hurstbourne Lane.

  • great speakers on a variety of birth and parenting related topics.
  • amazing vendor section
  • meet the local birth and baby professionals
  • visit BCN’s  Silent Auction.

RSVP for Birth in the Bluegrass 2010 & get more updates on facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=248356231122&ref=mf

Be sure to visit ICAN of Louisville’s booth!

ICAN is hosting a webinar on Sunday, January 24th.

The event info can be found on facebook:   http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=232700714009&ref=ts

Check out the email from ICAN’s president, Desirre Andrews:

Dear friend of ICAN,

I am very excited to announce our January educational webinar, an online session presented by physical therapist Isa Hererra and intended for anyone who wants to learn cesarean scar care techniques. Whether you are a mom or a health care professional, I encourage you to join us on January 24th at 9:00 pm EST (see below for other time zones) for this fantastic session!

Cesarean Scar Care in the Post-Partum Period

Presented by physical therapist Isa Herrera, MSPT, CSCS, Clinical Director of Renew Physical Therapy in NYC, this great online session will teach and guide you through the basics of cesarean scar care in the post-partum period.

This much-needed class is geared toward new moms and healthcare professionals alike who are looking to understand and implement some real-world techniques to get relief from pain, itching, burning, tingling… and also learn how to restore the abdominal muscles and posture so that you feel like yourself again.

Much of the great material to be included in this webinar is taken from Isa’s new book, Ending Female Pain, A Woman’s Manual. The book has been endorsed by filmmakers Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein, Dr. Jacques Moritz, and most recently by Jill Osborne of the IC-Network and NY Times best-selling author and gynecologist Dr. Christiane Northrup.

Highlights of this webinar include:
Understand how to locate scar adhesions and why they are so important to eliminate
Learn mobilization and massage techniques for cesareans
Restore abdominal function after cesarean with safe abdominal exercises
Learn the connection between Diastasis Recti and low back pain and pelvic pain
Learn simple yoga stretches for indirect scar mobilization during the early post-partum period

Date: Sunday, January 24, 2010
Time: 9:00 pm EST

Other Time Zones
U.S. Central   8:00 pm
U.S. Mountain   7:00 pm
U.S. Pacific   6:00 pm
Buenos Aires 11:00 pm
GMT – Thursday, January 28   2:00 am
Rome  – Thursday, January 28   3:00 am
Istanbul  – Thursday, January 28   4:00 am
New Delhi  – Thursday, January 28   7:30 am
Tokyo  – Thursday, January 28 11:00 am
Canberra  – Thursday, January 28   1:00 pm

This webinar is free to ICAN subscribers.  If you are not a current subscriber, you may subscribe or renew through the ICAN Bookstore or through your local chapter to attend this and future ICAN webinars for free.

Childbirth Professionals: 1.5 contact hours through ICEA have been applied for. ($5 administrative fee)

Click here to register: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/211749811

Warmly,

Desirre Andrews
ICAN President
www.ican-online.org

Orgasmic Birth

Louisville’s Birth Care Network will be showing and discussing the film Orgasmic Birth on Thursday, January 21, 2010.

Check out the Facebook event here:  http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=229164232846&ref=mf

Hope to see you there!

2010 Meeting Schedule

Meetings run from 7 – 8:30pm. Babes-in-arms welcome to attend; child-care is not provided. Meetings are held at Louisville Family Chiropractic, at 8117 New Lagrange Road. Visit www.ICANofLouisville.com for more information.

Educational Meetings are always free and open to the public.

Monday, February 1: Birthing in the Hospital: Getting the Birth You Want

Guest Speaker: Beth Bary, RN, CNM

Monday, April 5: Choosing VBAC

Our 3nd Birthday and Cesarean Awareness Month!

Monday, June 7: Why Babies Love Homebirth

Guest Speaker: Juliet Dietsch CLC, homebirth midwife, and ICAN member

Monday, August 2: Pelvic Balancing for Optimal Fetal Positioning

Guest Speaker: Dr. Leah Wright, DC, doula, and ICAN member

Monday, October 4: Hospital Interventions: Risks, Benefits, & Alternatives

Guest Speaker: Stacie Walker, LMT, childbirth educator, doula, and ICAN member

Monday, December 6: “Meet the Professionals Night” & “Laboring Under an Illusion” Film Showing

*Contact us for special December meeting location

Support Meetings are open to all women who are seeking a safe, supportive, & confidential environment to process a traumatic or disappointing birth experience.

Monday, January 4

Monday, March 1

Monday, May 3

Monday, July 5

No September Meeting

Monday, November 1

Meetings canceled when JCPS closes due to inclement weather.


Check out the article here

When the procedure is needed — when the mother or baby is in distress or other factors make a vaginal delivery hazardous — it can be a lifesaver. But only about 5 percent of C-sections are true emergencies, estimates George Macones, M.D., chairman of the depart­ment of obstetrics and gynecology at the Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, in Missouri. Around 3 percent are completely elective, meaning there’s no medical reason whatsoever, but the vast majority of C-sections actually fall into a gray zone: the baby looks big, mom is past her due date, labor isn’t progressing well.

 

 

We’ve got a great year lined up!  And I can’t wait to share our 2010 meeting schedule with everyone!

Here’s a teaser to get you by until our December meeting :-)

2010 wordle

Homebirth After Cesarean: What the Research Does and Doesn’t Say

Sunday, November 22, 3:00 pm EST

Free for ICAN subscribers.  Contact Erin to subscribe locally.

CEUs available for childbirth professionals

Is homebirth after cesarean (HBAC) as safe as in-hospital VBAC?  What elements make it risky?  With no studies are available on HBAC, Amy Haas, BCCE takes on the difficult task of applying the available studies on VBAC to the domain of homebirth to give a general idea on its safety.

http://ican-online.org/webinars/homebirth-after-cesarean

Online Support Meeting: Homebirth After Cesarean

Tuesday, November 17, 10:00 pm EST

Free for everyone

Join the women of ICAN in a live online support meeting. The topic for this meeting is “Homebirth After Cesarean.” Share your story, your fears, your dreams…and support other women in their journeys.

http://ican-online.org/online-support-meetings

Sunday, October 11th
1-6 p.m.
The Vernon Club
1575 Story Avenue

Featuring Music from:
Leigh Ann Yost • John Cage • The Cutter Girls
The Sirens • The Dirty Dishes • IamIs
and more!

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Stop by Birth Care Network’s Doulapalooza 2009!  ICAN of Louisville will be there in the Birth Buzz room!  Stop by and visit with us!


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