National Accreta Foundation

03/24/2026

📣Advocacy in Motion❗
We're proud to share how our leaders are helping create meaningful change for the accreta community - one conversation at a time.

Our first spotlight is Board Member, Brianna Evans! 💚

NAF Board Members are showing up across the nation in the healthcare community to represent NAF, elevate the patient voice, and help move maternal health advocacy forward.

We’re grateful to have leaders who show up with purpose, compassion, and a commitment to advancing awareness, education, and support for those impacted by placenta accreta spectrum. 🫶

03/20/2026

In honor of World Storytelling Day, we’re celebrating the strength, courage, and resilience of placenta accreta survivors. Your story has the power to educate, comfort, and inspire someone who may be facing this diagnosis today.

At the National Accreta Foundation, our Storybank helps bring real voices to the accreta community—voices that remind others they are not alone.

💚 If you’re an accreta survivor, we invite you to share your experience with us.
Your story could be the one that helps another family feel seen, understood, and hopeful.

✨ Submit your story to our Storybank today:
https://www.preventaccreta.org/story

Because when survivors speak, awareness grows—and lives can change.

03/17/2026

You know our favorite color is 💚 Green! Show us your accreta babies in their green today! ⬇

03/09/2026

Want to turn your accreta experience into advocacy?

Through NAF’s partnership with MoMMA's Voices , you can participate in free patient advocacy training designed to help you confidently share your story and advocate for change for Placenta Accreta Spectrum (PAS) patients.

Learn more and get started on our training page: https://www.preventaccreta.org/training

02/22/2026

Awareness you can wear. Carry. Sip. 💚

Every purchase from the National Accreta Foundation Gear Store helps fund the work that matters most—spreading accreta awareness, educating providers, and supporting moms and families impacted by placenta accreta.

When you shop the store, you’re helping us:
✨ Get life-saving information into more hands
🤍 Support moms navigating diagnosis, recovery, and survivorship
🌿 Strengthen programs that ensure no one faces accreta alone

Your purchase pays it forward—turning everyday items into meaningful impact.

Support the work. Visit the Gear Store. 💚

02/17/2026

We’re resharing one of our powerful "Accreta Expert Series" conversations because it continues to be an important resource for our accreta community.

In this 2023 session, we sat down with Scott Shainker, maternal-fetal medicine specialist and leader in placenta accreta spectrum care and research, to talk through what families need to know — from diagnosis to delivery planning and ongoing research.

This conversation covers:
✨ How accreta is identified and managed
✨ Current research and why patient voices matter
✨ Risk factors beyond cesarean history 😮
✨ The importance of specialized, team-based care

Whether you’re newly diagnosed, preparing for delivery, or looking to better understand your experience, this remains a trusted and informative resource.

🎥 Watch/read the full interview here:
https://www.preventaccreta.org/accreta-expert-scott-shainker

If you are a practicing Accreta Research Expert and would like to sign up for an event like this with us, please email contact@preventaccreta.org.

“Accreta Expert Series” is a National Accreta Foundation produced interview series that showcases the researchers, providers and public health experts who are leading the way in advances related to the pregnancy complication placenta accreta spectrum.

02/14/2026

Every day someone faces their accreta all over again as they celebrate their baby’s birthday.

We know that date can hold so many emotions. 💚

Over the years, many of our survivors have gently reclaimed that day as a “survivor-versary.” A day to honor not just what you went through — but who you are now. Another year of healing. Another year of strength. Another year of showing up after everything your body and heart endured.

We’ve seen survivors mark the day by:
✨ Donating blood or hosting a blood drive
✨ Getting a commemorative tattoo
✨ Buying themselves flowers
✨ Planning a girls’ day or meaningful time with someone special
✨ Baking their own cake
✨ Ordering that “birthday cake” coffee and saying, “Congrats, mama. Another year of strength.”

There is no right way to feel. There is no right way to honor it.

Whether baby’s birthday brings joy, grief, gratitude, or all of it at once — we hope you can take a moment to celebrate just how strong as a mother you are.

We see you. We honor you. And we are so proud of how far you’ve come. 🫶

02/03/2026

When you shop, you support Accreta Connection.

Did you know that when you shop the National Accreta Foundation Gear Store, your purchase helps support programs like Accreta Connection—our monthly, face-to-face support meetings for accreta patients and survivors?

Every item purchased helps contribute financially to:
✨ Creating space for meaningful connection
🤍 Providing emotional support to accreta patients and survivors
🌿 Sustaining a community where stories are honored and voices are heard

Your support helps ensure Accreta Connection can continue to be a safe, dedicated place for survivors to reflect, heal, and connect—month after month.

Wear your support. Share the mission. Help us continue this important work.

👉 Shop the NAF Gear Store and support Accreta Connection: https://www.preventaccreta.org/gear

01/31/2026

🎉 Accreta Connection Turns TWO! 🎉
This month, we’re celebrating 2 years of Accreta Connection—a space created for accreta patients and survivors. What started as a simple idea has grown into a powerful, supportive community where stories are shared, emotions are honored, and no one has to feel alone.

If you’ve experienced placenta accreta and are looking for support, we’d love for you to join our monthly Accreta Connection meetings. Here’s what participants often tell us they value most:

✨ Meaningful connection with others who truly understand
🤍 Face-to-face community in a safe, welcoming space
🌿 Emotional support through every stage of healing
🕯️ Dedicated time just for you—to reflect, be heard, and honor your unique accreta experience

Whether you’re newly diagnosed, navigating recovery, or years into survivorship, there is a seat for you here.

Happy 2nd birthday, Accreta Connection—and thank you to every survivor who has made this community what it is.

👉 Join us at our next meeting on February 7. Register on our website.

01/26/2026

10, 9, 6.6, 5…16!
Those are REAL numbers from REAL people who, without blood donors, wouldn’t have gotten the blood they needed to survive a placenta accreta/ accreta surgery. There is 1 week left of National Blood 🩸 Donor Month. The U.S. is in a severe shortage, 35% BELOW what they need. Give blood today and safe a life tomorrow.

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01/22/2026

January is National Blood Donor Month! For moms with accreta, blood donation is vital. 90% of accreta patients require blood transfusions during surgery. Now is the time to donate.

We're facing a severe blood shortage — our national blood supply has fallen by 35% over the past month. During a blood shortage, doctors may face difficult choices about which patients receive blood transfusions and who will need to wait.

We are in urgent need of donors to help patients who are counting on lifesaving blood following accidents, during surgeries, and for treatment of conditions such as sickle cell disease and cancer.

Help us beat the current shortage by scheduling an appointment to give blood or platelets: https://rdcrss.org/3LRmvrU