Accreta
Awareness Month
What is it?
October is Accreta Awareness Month (AAM) and focuses attention on placenta accreta spectrum, one of the fastest growing life-threatening complications of pregnancy.
Accreta Awareness Month encourages patients, survivors, medical professionals and public health advocates to spread the word about increased rates and risk factors associated with placenta accreta, including cesarean overuse.
October is Accreta Awareness Month
Join us for our biggest event of the year: our Accreta Awareness Virtual 5K and monthlong fundraiser. Register for the 5K, create your fundraiser, make a donation and tell the world why #AccretaAwareness matters to you:
New year, new thank you gifts
We’ve got exciting new gear designs for our top fundraisers and donors in honor of AAM. Learn how to get yours and be a 2024 Accreta Awareness Champion.
Join our AAM Live Stream Event:
Things You Can Do for Accreta Awareness Month:
Use our free campaign toolkit to become a social media champion. It includes NAF prepared profile photo frames, cover photos, and sample social media posts you can use all month across all platforms. Share NAF’s posts throughout the month and create your own. Tag National Accreta Foundation in your posts and use the campaign hashtags #1in272 and #AccretaAwareness
Write letters and send care packages. Accreta moms need our support and well wishes. Take a few minutes to make a difference for our newest community members by joining our letter writing program to send support to hospitalized accreta moms. NAF has made it easy for you to pay it forward and bring these moms some much needed encouragement.
Buy a shirt in our gear center and wear it proudly. Take a selfie wearing your gear and share it with us to be featured in our social media campaigns.
Join our virtual Accreta Awareness 5K and create a fundraising page to join our leaderboard and share your story. Spread awareness and earn AAM fundraising prizes.
Encourage family, friends, and other accreta advocates to donate and help raise awareness. Top fundraiser is named our AAM Champion for the year!
Participate in an academic study: we are live with an academic study based on your patient experience. It only takes a few minutes to add your voice and story to this important project to advance placenta accreta research and help future moms. Results will be published in a medical journal and used to help researchers to better understand the experience of accreta.
Short Video Project: “What one thing do I want doctors to know about the patient experience of placenta accreta?” Upload a 30 second - 1 minute video (or audio clip is fine if you don’t want to be on camera) telling the placenta accreta medical community what they need to know in order to help future moms.
Still want to do more?
Share your story with NAF to be alerted of future requests by media, researchers and health care quality improvement organizations for accreta patient stories, speakers, and representation
Join our Accreta Connection peer support event on October 5th. It’s a safe space for both survivors and those who have recently been diagnosed with placenta accreta spectrum (PAS) to join together virtually for support, to build coping skills, and learn mindfulness
Congrats to our 2023 Accreta Awareness Champion, Sarah Morgestein. Sarah’s 5K fundraiser led the way during Accreta Awareness Month and we are grateful for her commitment to sharing her story and bringing awareness to placenta accreta.
your support can help make this the most successful #accretaawareness month ever
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