#safe birth

[light2darkartstudio]

Helping others help others

Hello artists and friends! WE would like to announce the first Ambush opportunity for the new year, and this one is something that both artists and non-artists can take part in!! Last year we Ambushed a beautiful lady who runs an "Underground railroad". The Birthing Project USA SisterFriend Safe Birth Kits It helps get kits in the hands of midwives to give the mothers and children a fighting chance of survival. (Something many of us take for granted). It is based in Albuquerque, but helps expectant mothers around the globe. Each kit costs the low price of 5 dollars. So, our ambush is this: We are sending them art to be used in a raffle or auction to raise funds...AND if you cannot do that Here is the link where you can donate money http://www.birthingprojectusa.org/intro.html Artists, you know the drill...take a picture of anything you plan to send, and we'll post it to celebrate! Hit me up for the address details! Love you all, and thank you all! It's going to be an AWESOME new Year!! Share this with your friends and family. Lets raise awareness for this wonderful cause! Lisa

[unfpa]

Safe birth. Even here. SHARE the good news of safe deliveries, even in the most difficult humanitarian crises environments!

[smiffybabies]

Birthing Project USA - Safe Birth Kit Campaign

Please join the Birthing Project USA in our efforts to help save women lives by preventing common forms of maternal death. The Birthing Project USA has joined with Zubaida Bai (AYZH), a young social entrepreneur who has developed an affordable, SAFE BIRTH KIT. We are using our Birthing Project Model of giving ourselves permission and a vehicle to care for each other to give women the opportunity to purchase kits for their sisters in Africa and Latin America.  We see a future where no woman has to die giving birth for a lack of access to $5.00 worth of supplies. By sponsoring a kit, you can help spread the word to help mothers around the world. Purchase a Safe Birth Kit today by visiting us online athttp://www.birthingprojectusa.org/safebirthkits.html and help spread the message this holiday season!

[doula-charley]

[ajiradarch]

[midwiferytoday]

Traditionally, birth has been a very private affair in which only the most intimate of a woman's relations would attend the laboring woman. Grandmothers, aunts and wise women of the village whom the woman most trusted were the ones to be called. In today's society, women have been taught to place their trust in the medical model of childbirth and in medical professionals rather than in persons with whom they are most familiar. They are taught to accept the place of birth that the medical professional chooses (because it is the medical professional's "safe place"?). For many women this is a difficult and sometimes impossible transition, one which so impacts the sense of the familiar that patterns of labor are changed and the sensation of birth pain intensified.

From Not Among Strangers by Valerie El Halta, CPM. This article first appeared in Midwifery Today Issue 50, Summer 1999.

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