Do you support waterbirth?
Waterbirth has shown us all that women know how to give birth and babies know how to be born. Waterbirth gave us "hands-off," sit back and let the baby out. Waterbirth provides women a powerful alternative to medications for pain relief. Yet waterbirth continues to be an option women must fight to have.
For twenty years Waterbirth International has been fighting to give women the right to choose a gentle birth.
- Waterbirth International took the idea of gentle birth to the ACOG annual conference two years in a row - and was the only booth showing birth films to the practicing and student physicians.
- Waterbirth International has traveled around the planet to teach doctors, nurses and midwives in Taiwan, Venezuela, Turkey, Mexico, Canada, Holland, Portugal, China, Trinidad and Croatia how to apply the principles and practices of gentle birth into their routines.
- Waterbirth International hosted the Gentle Birth World Congress, an event that changed the practices of the doctors who attended.
- Waterbirth International paid for the Mother/Baby International Film Festival, to highlight Rikki Lake's Film "The Business of Being Born."
- Waterbirth International teaches everywhere from medical schools to hospitals to conferences for midwives, doulas and childbirth educators.
- Waterbirth International receives phone calls and emails every day from women who need help convincing one hospital or another to let them labor or birth in water.
Waterbirth International is a strong voice for a woman's right to choose a gentle birth. Sadly, Waterbirth International is facing the very real possibility that its work must end. The Gentle Birth Congress was an amazing success, but has left a huge hole in the operation. After making some changes, including letting go of the much needed staff, Waterbirth International is still behind $200,000.
Do you support waterbirth? Can you help Waterbirth International stay open to take the next phone call; to train the next medical student; to convince the next obstetrician to incorporate waterbirth into their practice; to work with the next midwife to install a pool in their facility; to educate the next hospital about the benefits of laboring in water?
How much is it worth to keep waterbirth as an option for women in the United States and Canada? How much is it worth to educate doctors and hospitals about the benefits of gentle birth practices? How much is it worth for families to have a source of help when their options are being taken away?
If you support waterbirth, please support Waterbirth International. Your donation can help ensure women have access to waterbirth as a option and gentle birth as a way of maternity care.
In your service,
Jennifer Vanderlaan
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