ICAN of Nashville

08/25/2026

Calling all creatives! We are looking for our next Cesarean Awareness Month (CAM) design for 2027! The theme is “Stitched Together” to celebrate our communities and the support they have offered throughout history.

Submit any designs to [email protected] by August 30!

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]

06/10/2026

Monthly ICAN National Virtual Support Meeting happening tonight for those interested!

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! ❤️

04/30/2026

Did you know that ICAN is a non-profit organization whose operations are carried out 100% by volunteers and whose finances are gathered via fundraising, memberships, and donations?

On this last day of April, consider helping close-out Cesarean Awareness Month 2026 by purchasing a comfy ICAN t-shirt or cozy sweatshirt!

Visit the link to support ICAN's mission:

Every shirt helps ICAN reach their goal of remaining a fruitful nonprofit around the globe. Our theme this Cesarean Awareness Month is "Informed Consent Is..." as we ...

04/30/2026

Sharing the latest Evidence Based Birth podcast episode (EBB 396) which is a discussion on the Inequities in VBAC Access with Dr. Nicholas Rubashkin, MD, PhD.

We always love a good ICAN shout-out!

Have you listened to the episode? What are your thoughts?

04/29/2026

In order to best serve the ICAN of Nashville community, please complete the Google Form survey linked below to help the ICAN of Nashville Chapter Leadership gain insights into meeting interests and preferences (days, times, modality, etc.)

https://forms.gle/PEvTuy1VFYLDr13i6

04/26/2026

Rounding out the April 2026 CAM (Cesarean Awareness Month), please join ICAN on Apr 27, 2026 at 08:00 PM CST for this webinar on Evaluating Breech Options with Kristine Lauria.

Can't attend? Register anyways and catch the recording!

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.

04/19/2026

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/