We’re Having a Blog Carnival – And You’re Invited!

We want to hear your birthing success stories!

Last year, Lamaze celebrated its 50 year anniversary in childbirth education. During the fall annual conference (held jointlywith the International Childbirth Education Association who also marked 50 years), Lamaze unveiled a video that summarized their accomplishments over the past five decades, as well as mapped out the work still needed for the present and future.

The video exhibits the many successes that professionals have seen in the world of maternity care and birth since 1960. Here are Giving Birth with Confidence, we want to hear from you moms and dads with your personal stories of success and triumph in birth. 

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Here’s how you can participate in Giving Birth with Confidence’s first blog carnival of 2011:

1)  Watch this video from Lamaze to learn more about where we’ve been, and where we’re going in terms of advocating for safe, healthy (and happy!) birth practices. (While this video was created for maternity care professionals, I can assure you that it is relevant and useful to every mother and father who has ever had a baby or is expecting a baby.) 

2)  For further inspiration and ideas, review the Six Healthy Birth Practices.

3)  Write up your success story of implementing or experiencing one (or more) of these evidence-based care practices during your own birth.

4)  Complete your post and upload it to your blog or website no later than Wednesday, January 19. Please also e-mail me at cterreri [at] lamaze [dot] org to let me know when and where they are available!  Also, make sure your post links back to this one (http://givingbirthwithconfidence.org/2011/01/were-having-a-blog-carnival-and-youre-invited/).

5)  If you don’t operate your own blog, but would like to participate, e-mail me your guest post for this event.

6)  Watch for the Blog Carnival Round-Up to be posted here on January 28.

~Happy Posting!~

Note:  if you are a professional reading this and would like to share a success story, please consider also linking to Science & Sensibility where a similar blog carnival is underway!