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n/a on 2/17/2007 2:13:28 AM |
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RE: how do i help? |
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Those sound like great places to start. I am starting a dialogue with the childbirth resource network locally and am brainstorming ideas to write something that I can submit to a magazine or journal.
Right now I have decided to forego the usual rhetoric on educating medical professionals. I feel the information is there. They know it, but it doesn't change anything. I am also not as enthusiastic about trying to "win" people over to our "side." I am, however, very passionate about focusing on those women who are already interested in ALL the options but do not know where to begin.
I really appreciated the last chapter of your book "Obstetric Myths." Now I am reading "Birth as an American Rite of Passage." It really does explain so much about why so many physicians and mothers "buy in" to a system that is so self contradictory. I'd like to think that we should be able to create an equally compelling alternative contemporary birthing ritual that is uniquely American and feminine especially in a time when our country seems to be yearning for a more family centered way of life.
TC
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