Empowering Birth Stories – March 2010
Again this event drew many women, partners, families and health professionals as they joined us for a morning of tenderness and sharing as 5 couples shared their empowered birth stories.
We had an fabulous line up speakers including Brigitte & Oliver Sigl who spoke about their medically necessary caesarean section, Selena Maloney who was completely empowered by her breech vaginal birth, Cassandra Bell who found great support in our local private hospital, Eszter Wong, who shared her special VBAC journey and Jane Eager who moved everyone to tears with her wonderful homebirth.
Guest speaker Caroline Hastie, beautifully summed up how our attendees could also achieve such empowering births regardless of any challenges and local celebrity and song writer, Amber Burns, performed her two beautiful songs during the scrumptious morning tea which was provided by the members.
International Midwives Day – May 2010
What a fabulous day this turned out to be and happy belated International Day of the Midwife to all! A light luncheon was arranged at Wyong Hospital which became the focus of local media attention and was supported wholeheartedly by Northern Sydney Central Coast Area Health Services.
The aim of this special day was to not only celebrate midwifery, but to raise awareness to as many people as possible about the important service that midwives provide to our communities.
Local newspaper reporters and photographers came along to snap photos of our local midwives with the Mums and Bubs they had recently supported during their births. Local MP, Craig Thomson, his wife Zoe and daughter, also came along to show their support of our local maternity services. And of course everyone was completely ‘Wowed’ by the spread of delicious delights supplied by our Central Coast members.
Plans for June, July & August 2010
Winter will also prove to be a busy time for the Central Coast Branch as we are working closely with the Northern Sydney Central Coast Health Services to help improve birthing options for all women on the Central Coast. 2 of our local members have been invited to speak at the Community Congress Conference. As we head towards Spring our 2nd Empowering Birth Stories is being planned for August.
The Central Coast Maternity Coalition always welcomes new members, so if you are passionate about birth or you believe that all women should have the right to choose their maternity care, please come along to one of our meetings.