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 We are often asked "What Do BirthGirlz Do?" Here is a Quick Overview of This Last Year:
We.....
- provided 30 women in need with free doulas.
- co-hosted 3 community baby showers, including securing gifts for each low-income mom.
- funded the "pushing 4 vbacs" attorney to fight the state ban on VBACs in birth centers.
- Led the fight to save Jackson Memorial Hospital's South Campus' Labor & Delivery Unit. This hospital had the highest rate of Nurse-Midwife attended births and the LOWEST c-section rate in the county. And we won!
- hosted monthly community pot-luck dinners to build our village.
- taught childbirth education at no cost to families who could not afford them.
- planned and presented the 1st South Floirda VBAC Summit to provide information to the community. The 2011 VBAC Summit is in the works now.
- reached out to the medical school at FIU and are negotiating introducing midwives to medical students in the classroom and clinical setting.
- mentored new doulas in our community.
- hosted continuing education courses for Licensed Midwives.
- fed & clothed families in times of crisis by organizing food deliveries.
- hosted monthly support groups for post partum depression and loss.
- continue to fight everyday to normalize motherhood.
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