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Childbirth Connection, an organization dedicated to research, consumer advocacy and health care system transformation, suggests that the health care system is not listening to women through their newly released study: Listening to Mothers III. Several areas were identified as major problems for mothers in terms of care (in no specific order):
The thing is: Every little bit counts! But there's so many who aren't doing *anything!* If they could step up and do one little thing, it would help so much! These are, of course, personal questions that only you know the answer to: What can you do differently to be heard by our health care system and mothers? To whom can you reach? Will you wait for a friend to come to you after their birth with tears in her eyes because she was coerced, didn’t understand what happened or dealing with depression and needing help? What is going on with our system that our medical staff can’t open their eyes long enough to see that we need better, we deserve better?? What will you do? I’ll be the first one to fess up: I’m not being loud enough for my own tastes. I hang out behind my computer screen while my children are sleeping and write blogs. I connect with amazing women on a daily basis, both professional working women who are devoted to bettering our birthing system and postpartum care & professional moms (because let’s face it, once you’re a stay at home mom, you’re a professional!). And I love what I do! And what I do IS pretty loud, that was the goal from the beginning. For the Birth Trauma community, I hope I am being a loud enough voice. I love getting messages from friends and women I didn’t even know were reading this blog, telling me how far their healing journeys have come since we began this journey with Momma Trauma. Those messages to me are HUGE. It’s major progress for those women, their families and hopefully those around them over time as they begin to reach out. But I’m not being LOUD enough for our birthing community, for me. You see, we’re all linked, it all works together to blossom happy, healthy mommas. This isn’t just about birth trauma. This is about reducing the risk of trauma, surgeries, death; it’s about maximizing the health of our moms & babies by bettering our breastfeeding support and thus our rates as well, supporting our new mothers through the postpartum year emotionally, knowing the signs of PPD and other Perinatal Mood Disorders, increasing access to doula care and prenatal education; it’s about our human right to a natural, normal childbirth which is only augmented when truly medically necessary. How can *I* be loud enough? If you’re asking yourself the same questions, here are some ideas:
Aren’t ready to be a loud advocate? Here are some ideas to silently help our birth crisis:
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5/15/2013 03:24:04 am
I love what you are doing! Thank you for your loud voice. We all have a part to play and when we work together I believe we can move mountains! I would like to add an action item to your list: Come to the Birth Activist Retreat this summer! http://www.birthactivist.org/activist-retreat/ Birth Activists from everywhere will be coming together to connect and amplify our collective voice. This is going to be a huge event that will make a huge impact. I hope you can make it. Please help us spread the word!
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