For your interest! Jo Hunter ---------- From: Gloria Lemay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: Childbirth with Confidence Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 12:37:21 -0700 Subject: New waterbirth discussion group
I have started a new Yahoo email group for women who wish to learn more and discuss facets of waterbirth. I have set up this email group in response to a request from my good friend, Barbara Harper, of Global Maternal/Child Health in Oregon. Below is a portion of a letter from Barbara with details about an upcoming international waterbirth conference in Chicago/2004. If you wish to join the new Yahoo group, go to this website and apply: Group home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/waterbirthinwomen Group email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Excerpt from Barbara's letter...... We are planning the next International Waterbirth Congress, Mark your calendar NOW for next year!! Come Join Us in Chicago April 22-25, 2004 International Waterbirth Congress: Embracing Birth Together Chicago, Illinois - Hyatt Regency Oak Brook Hotel call or email us if you want to get on the mailing list for this fantastic conference or if you would like to submit a proposal to speak. Don't wait! 1-800-641-2229. We need people to help us spread the word and we need baby photos, preferably digital, but paper photos will do. We always have a slide show either at the beginning or end. We are gathering the addresses, phone numbers and websites of all the hospitals in the US that provide maternity care. This if for several reasons, the main one is the plan to execute a nationwide survey on the use of warm water immersion in labor and birth. The survey's would be done on the phone during a two month period. The results will be compiled and shared at the International Waterbirth Congress. We are recruiting volunteers nationwide who are computer savvy and can go through the lists on the Internet (I'll give you the website link that we use to search for hospitals) compile them for each state and then email them to me for our office volunteers to enter into our FileMaker Database. The list will also be a great mailing list for the upcoming conference. <A HREF="http://www.ahd.com/freesearch.php3";> http://www.ahd.com/freesearch.php3</A> The main goal of Waterbirth International is...... To make warm water immersion for labor and birth AN AVAILABLE OPTION for ALL WOMEN in ALL BIRTH SETTINGS by 2015. Yes, that means that every hospital in the US will have an installed birth pool and know how to use it. We all know that when a hospital or birth center embraces waterbirth the they quickly change their practice and become truly "mother-friendly." Complete mother friendly hospitals will only happen when we have water for all women and doulas for all women. I'll let the DONA folks take care of the doulas. We'll take care of the water immersion. Thanks for all your help and for joining us in promoting and providing the option of water immersion for all women in all birth settings. Many Blessings, Barbara Harper, RN Founder/Director Waterbirth International www.waterbirth.org We LOVE helping women get into Hot Water!! �>> Thanks for your work in birth, Gloria Lemay http://www.glorialemay.com -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit <http://www.acegraphics.com.au> to subscribe or unsubscribe.
