2008 - year of homebirth awareness - We have lift off!! Gooooooooo!
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Changing our world through one action a day.<O:P></O:P>
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The time has come to speak out as women and mothers about how our lives have been changed by the beauty of birthing at home. We cannot stand by as more women go through the conveyor belts of our maternity hospitals without speaking the truth –
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Birth is safe, interference is risky*, birth belongs at home.<O:P></O:P>
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Join all of us in speaking out with just one action a day, however small, and be the ripple effect as each of us across <?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = ST1 /><ST1:COUNTRY-REGION><ST1:PLACE>Australia</ST1:PLACE></ST1:COUNTRY-REGION> speaks out to inform, normalise and honour birth.
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What can you do in one day? How about these ideas?!
* put a HOMEBIRTH sticker on your car, pram, bicycle helmet, letterbox, gate, fence, front door
* sew a homebirth patch on your sling or wrap
* get a note in your school newsletter
* put your homebirth pics on youtube
* drop off JB pamphlets and info on normal physiological birth to your local medical centre
* tell someone about your homebirth, past, present, or planned
* write a letter to your daily, local or national newspaper
* buy a homebirth book for your local library, don't forget the kids' section
* talk to your community group, ABA group, mothers' group however casually you like
* tell your GP if you have one
* tell your natural therapists and give them some JB brochures
* carry a JB tote bag
* take a few pamphlets everywhere just in case the need arises
* say "Homebirth is lovely" on mainstream internet forums
* change your sig to something supportive of homebirth on mainstream forums
* put a link to JB on your website, blog, community group website or anywhere else you can
* give a voucher for JOY to friends who aren't members (and some who are)
* give gift vouchers from Capers
* host a showing of BOBB in your local area and invite the newspapers
* go to anything women-related and talk about homebirth - WEL, CWA, IWD.....
* do some community-minded graffiti or even a mural!
* write stuff on toilet walls in maternity hospitals
* do some Wiki edits
* put a homebirth quote in your email sig
* ring the radio when talkback time is on and say all health matters would be solved by women having babies at home
* do an essay at uni about it if you can, or a tutorial presentation
* wear a homebirth tshirt, put homebirth clothes on innocent children who can't protest
* get some JB or homebirth awareness postcards made, and everyone send one off, either to a pregnant friend or acquaintance
* hang a JB brochure on your local community noticeboard. Start a local JB gathering and make poster ads up about it. Hang at the library, community health centre, family support centre, Centrelink office, or anywhere you think families might go<o:p></o:p>
* Pop JB business cards inside birthy books in the library, as bookmarks!<o:p></o:p>
* Join forces! Get involved with your other local homebirth and maternity groups. Volunteer your time, and bounce ideas off others
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SIGNATURES
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2008 - The Year of Homebirth Awareness.
Help support and value women. Protect their babies.
Tell everyone you know that homebirth exists as a VALID birthing choice!
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2008 - The Year of Homebirth Awareness.
Birth is safe. Intervention is risky. Opt for a low intervention birth and birth at home! Click here for more information.
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2008 - The Year of Homebirth Awareness.
Research shows that planned homebirth using midwives is associated with LOWER RATES of intervention, but similar intrapartum and neonatal mortality as low risk hospital birth. Homebirth is SAFE!
Outcomes of planned home births with certified professional midwives: large prospective study in North America. BMJ 2005;330:1416 (18 June) Source link here.
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2008 - The Year of Homebirth Awareness.
Homebirth. Safe as life gets.
FLYERS
JOYOUS BIRTH BUSINESS CARDS
Contact your local convenor regarding copies (or print your own!) More coming soon.
JOYOUS BIRTH BROCHURES
Contact Joyous Birth regarding copies (or print your own!)
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See this thread for information on the official JB brochure! http://www.joyousbirth.info/forums/s...ead.php?t=7247
Download Advocacy Brochure here.
WANT MORE IDEAS AND SUGGESTIONS? READ ON THROUGH THIS THREAD!
* Thanks to www.trustbirth.com for “Birth is safe, Interference is risky”!
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And I put a couple of shirts in today to be done up with the homebirth awareness bizo...can't wait to see how they turn out
Um can you save it to your puter and use photoshop on it? Or we can ask Lisa to make them smaller?
Brilliant! 
