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The Finger Lakes Birth Center Working Group and Birthnet of the Finger Lakes Needs You!

Below is a forward from Lauren Korfine of the Finger Lakes Birth Center Working Group
and Birthnet of the Finger Lakes:

Hello! Please forward this announcement to any (local) people or lists
that might be relevant. We are specifically looking to reach women who
have had babies in or around Ithaca within the last three years. Thank you
so much!

Birth Survey Winter 2009

BirthNet of the Finger Lakes and The Finger Lakes Birth Center Working
Group are gathering information concerning women's birth experiences in
our community over the last several years. In addition, these groups are
hoping to determine whether there is community interest in a freestanding,
independent birth center in Ithaca. A freestanding birth center is an
independent facility that provides complete prenatal, childbirth, and
postpartum care, incorporating a family-centered midwifery model of
maternity care in a comfortable, home-like setting.
We would like to hear from women who have given birth in this community
(Ithaca and the nearby surrounding areas) in the last three years,
specifically from January 1, 2006 until the present. Participating in this
quick, anonymous, and confidential survey is your opportunity to let us
know how you feel about the options for maternity care in our community.

The survey has two parts. The first part was developed by the Finger Lakes
Birth Center Working Group to help us gain a better understanding of the
potential need for additional birth options in the community. The second
part is a national survey called The Birth Survey, which is concerned with
issues of birth satisfaction and experience.
To access the survey, please go to the BirthNet website
(www.birthnetfl.org) and click on "Participate in the 2009 Birth Survey"
and follow the instructions from there.

If you have any questions or are interested in hearing more about the
birth center effort, please contact Lauren Korfine at
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or 256-0132.

Please forward this information to your friends and relevant e-mail lists.
Thank you so much for taking the time to participate in this important effort.

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BEING BORN IS IMPORTANT

You who have stood at the bedposts and
seen a mother on her high harvest day,
the day of the most golden of harvest moons for her.

You who have seen the new wet child dried behind the ears,
swaddled in soft fresh garments,
pursing its lips and sending a groping mouth toward
nipples where white milk is ready

You who have seen this love's payday
of wild toiling and sweet agonizing-

You know being born is important.
You know that nothing was ever so important to you
You understand that the payday of love is so old,
so involved, so traced with circles of the moon,
so cunning with the secrets of the salts of the blood
It must be older than the moon, older than salt.

--Carl Sandburg

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Peace... it does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.

Unfortunately, the role of obstetrics has never been to help women give birth. There is a big difference between the medical discipline we call \"obstetrics\' and something completely different, the art of midwifery. If we want to find safe alternatives to obstetrics, we must rediscover midwifery. To rediscover midwifery is the same as giving back childbirth to women. And imagine the future if surgical teams were at the service of the midwives and the women instead of controlling them.

Michel Odent, MD

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