ICAN of New Jersey

08/10/2025

Invite your friends for our Tuesday meeting, 8 p.m. on 8/12! The more the merrier as we make a difference for each other and birthing people throughout NJ.

08/08/2025

How we plan for and process our births impacts us and our families. Join a welcoming group of birthers to discuss how we heal ourselves and the birth climate in our state. 8 p.m. on Tuesday (8/12). https://meet.google.com/tji-yzwp-ibd

08/07/2025

Please mark your calendar for our Tuesday, August 12 meeting at 8 p.m.! Join us to change the world one birth story at a time. https://meet.google.com/tji-yzwp-ibd

07/29/2025

Please join us for our monthly meeting at 8 p.m. tonight online! We will focus on advocacy tonight. ICAN of New Jersey has invited you to join a video meeting on Google Meet.

Join the meeting: https://meet.google.com/tji-yzwp-ibd

07/23/2025

Please mark your calendar for 8 p.m. on July 29 for our next online ICAN Meeting with a focus on advocacy.

07/21/2025

Birthing people planning to labor after cesarean can sometimes do wild things to access quality care. We travel hundreds of miles, cross state lines, pay out of pocket, or have to switch providers at the eleventh hour - and then we switch again! This shouldn’t be necessary.

You can share your story and help more birthing people access care in New Jersey.

Garden State Birth Coalition - Send us your videos of great experiences with Midwives - hospital, birth center, and home birth experiences!!!

07/19/2025

Those with a uterine scar planning future pregnancies, or considering how induction/augmentation may affect their risk of rupture, may be interested in reviewing these findings.
In nearly 500,000 cases of labor after a prior cesarean, here in the States, the rupture rate from spontaneous labor with at least 21 months’ IPI was low - .19%.
And an interesting finding: high BMI was protective against rupture.

The risk of uterine rupture progressively decreases as IPI increases until about 21 months and then stabilises. Counselling should advise that for women choosing between a planned TOLAC or a planned caesarean delivery after one previous caesarean delivery and no previous vaginal births waiting until...

07/15/2025

Birthing people receiving an obstetric model of care, especially those with a uterine scar, may have many conversations about risk with their providers. This can be challenging if you don’t have a lot of experience reading medical literature or never had a stats course.
This free online resource, maintained by a nuclear engineer and mom of 4, breaks it down for you! Her blog includes many helpful and simple visualizations.
https://www.smartbirth.org/post/_risk

07/09/2025

If you need a little extra TLC tonight, join the national call- talk to birthing people across the country and, sometimes, the world!
Tell your story. Vent your frustrations, share your grief or your joy. It is a lot to carry alone. You don’t have to carry it alone.

Real-time meetings by Google. Using your browser, share your video, desktop, and presentations with teammates and customers.

07/08/2025

07/01/2025

Reflections from a midwife. What makes a “good birth” really has little to do with the method of delivery! Instead, it has to do with whether or not people feel safe and supported, as her example makes clear. The bad birth in her post wasn’t so bad after all.

Why psychological safety matters during childbirth