You have to love a good sarcastic piece about the absurdities of our society
I for one am SO looking forward to the day the way nature, God, what we were born to do is the norm again
Here’s the link to Bunmi Laditan’s hilarious post:
and her personal blog:
http://montrealsmomblog.com/
Is the way we birth causing breastfeeding failure?.
Have to share this great post about the correlation between the birth process and it’s effect on breastfeeding.
Wonderful points brought up by Jenny and another that comes to mind when reading about interventions, is why, when we spend our entire pregnancy avoiding and being told to avoid drugs of any kind to protect ourselves and especially the baby from harm, is it all of a sudden OK to throw caution to the wind with drugs during labor?!
During the most sacred time of all, the baby’s initiation into this world and mom’s transformation to a most important care giver, it seems more logical to realize the potential harmful effects of unnecessary interventions and let motherbaby be.
It hasn’t been an easy road and the work to be done is far from over but there is a TON to look forward to in 2012 with birth.
In Hawai`i alone we have these workshops/events happening just in the first few months of the year, along with a visit from Dr. Michel Odent and International Midwife Heloisa Lessa.
If you’re not part of the transformation, find out more at: http://www.jointhetransformation.org/ together, we will see positive outcomes for families, women and children.
Here’s what’s happening in Hawai`i nei, hope we see you at one of these wonderful events! :
* Hawai`i Affiliate of American College of Nurse Midwives (HAA)
Presents: “The Face of Midwifery in Hawaii”
The First Annual Conference & Membership Meeting
January 29th, 2012, Sunday
Conference Topics:
Preservation and Promotion of Normal Physiologic Birth
Presented by top researcher in the field, Holly Kennedy, CNM, PhD, FACNM, FAAN
President, American College of Nurse-Midwives
Showcase of Midwifery Practices in Hawaii
Guest speakers from across the islands will present their practices
Roundtable Discussions
Group breakout sessions focusing on strategies to increase the success of midwifery practice in Hawaii
Where: Ala Moana Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii
Time: 8 am- 5 pm
Costs: HAA Members $75 General public $65 Students & Nurses $50
(Includes conference, meeting, and lunch)
Who should attend? HAA members, Midwives, Nurses, Women’s Health Care Providers, Doulas, Childbirth Educators, Hospital Administrators, Obstetricians, Physicians, Faculty, Students, anyone interested in Midwifery care in the state of Hawaii.
For more information contact: 887-0167 or visit our soon to be up website hawaii.midwife.org
* “CATCH THE WAVE HAWAII”
“National Initiatives for Evidence Based Infant Nutrition”
Sponsored by: Breastfeeding Hawaii, Queens Medical Center and
Healthy Hawaii Initiative-Hawaii Department of Health
Aloha Breastfeeding Advocates!
Come to Hawaii in the winter and enjoy an excellent conference on breastfeeding activism strategies to use in your community.
Advocates within the State can attend in person or via Video Conferencing for Neighbor Island participants.
When: January 9, 2012
Where: The Queen’s Medical Center Conference Center, 1301 Punchbowl Street Honolulu, HI 96813
Time: 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Costs: Physicians $150, Regular $125, $90 VCC Participants Neighbor Island/Queen’s Employees/Students
Speakers:
Amelia Psmythe-Director of Breastfeeding Coalition of Oregon and West Coalition
Region Representative to US Breastfeeding Committee
Carol Melcher-trainer and consultant with Baby Friendly Hawaii Project and 35 hospitals in California regarding becoming Baby Friendly; developer of SOFT Program at Loma Linda
Community Panel representing Hawaii Mothers Milk, Inc; WIC; Hawaii Pacific Health
You can sign up on line by
1. going to the Breastfeeding Hawaii website www.breastfeedinghawaii.org
2. on Home page click IN THE TAB TITLED EVENTS AND COURSES. You will be taken to a page to register for the conference and pay by credit or debit card via PayPal.
Do Not Choose Breastfeeding Confence in the casade of choices under the tab Events
and Courses. It will only take you to a Save the Date flier for the conference not the registration form and method of payment area.
We look forward to you joining us at our conference and enjoying our beautiful island, Oahu or traveling to the other neighbor islands!
If you have additional questions please contact me at patbilyk@yahoo.com
* LABOR DOULA WORKSHOP
Supporting Hawaii’s Birthing Families
Dates – January 20, 21 & 28, 2012
Times – Fri. 6p – 10p Saturdays 9:30am – 5:30pm,
Location – Honolulu, Hawaii
Instructor – Kathryn Julia, LMT, CLD
Cost – $350.00 (discount for registration before Dec. 31 2011)
Contact – 375-3465 or JulTouch.kj@gmail.com
* 2012 PUBLIC HEALTH OPHS COLLOQUIUM SERIES
PRESENTS:
Michel Odent, MD, Founder, Primal Health Research Centre, London U.K.
“Primal Health Research in the Age of Epigenetics ”
Primal Health Research is an emerging branch of epidemiology & includes studies exploring correlations between what happens during the primal period and what happens later on in terms of health and personality traits. The primal period includes fetal life, perinatal period and the year following birth. With the advent of epigenetics – as another emerging discipline – many correlations
detected through the primal health research perspective can be interpreted in a new way. The database appears also as a tool to provide indications regarding critical periods for genes environment interaction during the primal period, where specific pathological conditions and personality traits are concerned. Since the possible transmission of epigenetic markers to the following generations has been demonstrated, we found new reasons to include in the database studies about transgenerational effects of events during the primal period. Today, one cannot ignore the transgenerational effects. Understanding how acquired traits can be transmitted to the following generation is a new step in the history of sciences.
Michel Odent has been in charge of the surgical unit and the maternity unit at the Pithiviers (France) state hospital (1962-1985) and is the founder of the Primal Health Research Centre (London). He introduced in the 1970s the concepts of home-like birthing rooms and birthing pools in maternity hospitals. He is the author of the first article in the medical literature about the use of birthing pools (Lancet 1983), of the first article about the initiation of lactation during the hour following birth, and of the first article applying the ‘Gate Control Theory of Pain’ to obstetrics. Odent is the author of 12 books published in 22 languages & co-author of five academic books, as well as author/co-author of 92 articles.
Date: Thursday Jan 19 2012
Time: Thursday, Jan. 19, 12:00 noon to 1:00pm
Location: Biomed Bldg, room D‐207, UH‐Manoa
To RSVP for this presentation, please contact Nancy Partika: nantika@hawaii.edu
* Hāpai Hawa`i Presents:
Debra Pascali-Bonaro of Organic Birth and Elizabeth Davis author of
“Hearts & Hands” bring an Ecstatic Birth Workshop:
“Creating, Supporting and Nurturing Safe, Satisfying, Pleasurable Births”
A creative workshop to explore the research, expand your practice and stimulate your creativity with music, movement and more…
February 29 & March 1st
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
This workshop will include: Hormones and physiology of labor: the path to ecstasy, Significance of emotions on the progress of labor, Comfort measures in first stage labor: hands on practice, The sexuality of pregnancy, labor and birth, Variations of normal birth, Postpartum debriefing, Birth as a Human Rights Issue and much more
Where: Paki Hale 3840 Paki Avenue, Honolulu HI 96815
Who should attend? Midwives, Nurses, Women’s Health Care Providers, Doulas, Childbirth Educators, Hospital Administrators, Obstetricians, Physicians, Faculty, Students, anyone interested in Midwifery care and mother/baby friendly care in the state of Hawaii.
For more information or questions call: Piper Lovemore (808) 861-7168 find us on Facebook: Hapai Hawaii
Group B (from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm)
- B1 – The priorities of “Improving Maternal and Perinatal Health WHO
team” (with Mario Merialdi).
- B2 – Birth across Cultures: An Evolutionary Perspective (with Robbie
Davis-Floyd)
- B3 – Unusual routes towards midwifery and obstetrics (with Ina May
Gaskin and Michel Odent)
- B4 – “Skin-to-Skin Contact for Term and Preterm Infants: The
Natural Habitat for Transitioning to Extrauterine Life.” (with Susie
Ludington. USA)
- B5 – Advances in medical genetics and fetal medicine (with Sylvie
Odent, from France, as Professor of medical genetics)
- B6 – “Ancestral Birth Traditions in the Pacific Islands” (with Nora
Oppenheimer, from Hapai Hawai’i)
- B7 – What happened since Las Palmas, with Pr Garcia Hernandez (Las
Palmas), Marcos Dias (Brazil), Marcos Leite, (Brazil), and Jaqui
Zieler (Argentina).
- B8 – The effects of disasters on childbirth (with Dr Hiromi Inoue. Tokyo)
Honestly, I knew she would win 
Not because I’m bias but because there are SO many birth workers on the planet and we know how important this was for her to win.
Women in countries all over the world and not just in impoverished countries are having maternal and fetal health issues. Some of the ways we know will benefit mothers and children is to have a more personalized, low interventive approach to women in their childbearing years to post partum.
2012 will see a major shift in consciousness, those of us in birth work can feel it coming and this was one we were so thrilled to see <3
http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/11/living/cnn-heroes/index.html
http://www.kitv.com/news/29799123/detail.html
So happy for my friends Kaja Gibbs-Davidson and her husband Matthew Davidson on their film, “Born Two Birth” being featured in this segment from KITV’s Mahealani Richardson on the increase of home births…it would’ve been great if the terms were used and pronounced correctly and if the fear based information was left out but all in all, I love that home birth was looked at, talked about and now more women will look into this as an option for themselves, when previously they may not have known what it was at all.
Let me know what you think about it!
Friday, September 16 · 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Honolulu, HI
Hosted by Kathy Julia
jultouch.kj@gmail.com
One thing that is common with all people i speak with about childbirth and parenting is ……. feeling uninformed and unprepared….. no matter how many books we read and films we watch. This workshop is for all those who want to be more informed and familiar with the State of Consciousness that childbirth takes us to. — Kathy Julia
This is very exciting…
More awareness and more sharing of information to empower families to have their best birth
Visit the FB page and here’s more information:
Empowered Birth Awareness Week is a global, shared, event which belongs to everyone who participates in it.
The purpose of the event is to grow our paradigm of empowered birth by FLOODING the public yearly with our vision,
our definitions,
ideas,
images ,
stories and
inspirations,
in short, to share our reality of what it means to have an, empowered birth.
PLEASE join us by using your networks to share and promote this event!
Together WE (all birthworkers) can have the marketing ability of a large corporation. Together WE will drive the common awareness to seek information about empowered birth.
Take the date. Make it your own. Innovate around it!
(Some ideas) Blog, Press releases, Newsletters, Signs, youtube videos..
With all of us powerful woman united under this one idea, there is no stopping us from INSTANTLY affecting our world and making Empowered Birth Awareness VIRAL.
PLEASE SHARE
For more information, please go here:
http://www.birthpower.us/eba.html
Barbara Rivera, Birthpower
PS You may freely use the artwork to promote this event!
Friday, August 26 at 9:00am - August 28 at 6:00pm
This workshop is a prerequisite to our Childbirth Educator certification program however, one does not need to be enrolled in out program to attend.
Birth Works International is a non-profit organization of childbirth educators and doulas, which embodies the philosophy of developing a woman’s self-confidence, trust, and faith in her own ability to give birth.
The following is an outline of topics covered during the workshop:
Childbirth Educator Workshop
This experiential and dynamic workshop offers both an academic and emotional preparation for birth and will cover:
· Feelings, Belief Systems, and Philosophies
· Pelvic bodywork and labor positions
· Birth physiology: neocortex and hormone behaviors
· Components of labor, privacy, pain, and vocalization
· Feeling safe to give birth and comfort measures
· Human values in birth
· VBAC (Vaginal Birth After Cesarean) and Cesarean decisions
· Grieving and healing
· Mother/baby skin-to0skin contact and fetal brain wiring
· Group dynamics preparation for teaching Birth works ® classes
Costs:
Cost of workshop: $450
Cost of certification program: $395
Discounts: • 15% off on BWI modified program for CCEs currently certified in another program
The workshop is a three day program and the days go as follows: The first day is 9:00 am to 6:00 pm, the second day is 9:00 am to 6:30 pm and the third day is 9:00 am to 5:30 pm; unless otherwise posted. All workshops are taught by highly qualified Birth Works® trainers. Please register at:www.birthworks.org.
Entry into the certification program is not a prerequisite to attending the workshop though the workshop is a requirement of the certification program. The workshop remains valid towards certification for five years from the date it was held. We encourage those in the certification program to attend the workshop early in their training, but anytime during the two-year training period is acceptable.
For more information or to register for the event please contact me at: kathleenr@birthworks.org or 1-888-TO-BIRTH.
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Kathleen Roseboro
Workshop Coordinator
BirthWorks International
PO Box 2045
Medford, NJ 08055
Here’s a great article which is actually a response to many comments from a former article, talking about the benefits of breast milk and the short falls of formula.
