Midwifery Task Force Final Report

You can read a report from the Task Force here:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/13830964/Midwifery-Task-Force-Final-Report-1210108

google calandar

This a public calandar for Ga. Friends of Midwives. We will be posting all our events here. We are also opening up this calendar to the birth community if you'd like to post public events here as well. This will be a good place to keep the community informed on what's happening in the pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding and related fields and events. If'd you'd like to post events here please email gafriendsofmidwives@gmail.com. Thank you!

New Google Group

We are refreshing our GFOM email contact list. We are switching from yahoo groups to google groups so we can have those folk interested in staying active and involved registered.

Please join our group!
http://groups.google.com/group/Gafriendsofmidwives/members_invite?pli=1

You can choose you setting on how to receive emails under your settings.

How do you want to read this group?

No Email I will read this group on the web

Abridged Email (No more than 1 email per day)
Get a summary of new activity each day

Digest Email (Approximately 1 email per day)
Get up to 25 full new messages bundled into a single email

Email (Approximately 1 email per day)
Send each message to me as it arrives

See you there!!

Clothes and Toys donations

GFOM is collecting baby/childrens clothing and toys. We will have a consignment sale as a fundraiser. Please bring donations to the monthly meetings.

Thank you for the donations received at the meeting today.

Donations for Conferences

GFOM is looking for donations so that we can use for our tables door prizes and give aways for the upcoming conferences and future events. If you have something to donate please email; gafriendsofmidwives@gmail.com

Thank you for the following donations!!

Amazing hand crocheted baby hats~ Anna Hopper

Awesome birth/baby ball ~ Rachel Harp www.thenaturalmotheringshop.com
www.thenaturalmotheringcenter.com
www.atlantadiaperservice.com
www.atlantacloth.com
www.atlantawestmoms.com


2 gift certificates for 30 minute massages ~ Karen Rowlee
gwinnettMuscular.com

Huge Box of giveaways ~ Becky Van Note

Conferences

GFOM will be attending the following conferences and we need volunteers to help with time slots at our table.

http://www.ican-online.org/conference/index.html

http://www.lllofga.org/2009/

GFOM meeting

We had a fantastic GFOM meeting today. We had about 18 wonderful people show up to help us start new projects and ideas.
We are very excited about this consumer group growing and getting new and exciting things happening here in Ga.

Here is a list of new ideas we got today that we can start getting folks to work on:

-Create a catchy slogan
-Create postcards to send to Board of Health every time new homebirth baby is born
-Create blog site
-Create annual calendar to sell for fundraiser
-Send GFOM forms to midwives and follow up
-Hold an honor your elected official day breakfast
-Host a CNM meet and greet
-Coffee break with Board of Health
-Re crate new email group to re vamp email info
- add an action alert group as well as a chat group
-Create Newsletter and email as well as paper mail
-Give away drawing for signing up to newsletter
-Contact local businesses for Donations
-Perhaps selling baked goods at conferences
-Creating a GFOM meet up group in different neighborhoods
-Setting up GFOM at local arts and craft festivals and such and have a nursing station to attract moms
-Sharing links with other supporting groups such as Atlanta Cloth, Baby Steps and so forth.
-Create a Ga. home birth website

If anyone would like to take on starting one of these please email or post here we need all the help we can get :)