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Happy Thanksgiving!

Please click the link to read our 2009 Thanksgiving newsletter. Wishing all our friends a blessed Holiday Season - thank you for entrusting us with caring for your family. We love you all! - Jennie, Onidis, Amy, Kaevon, Katrina, Alexis, Elena and all the staff.

 

Thanksgiving Newsletter

Heads Up on Infant Mortality Campaign

Heads Up on Infant Mortality

YOUR BIRTH CENTER NEEDS YOU! September 26, 2009 at Central Florida KidFest in CLermont. Come on out and help us display our BABY HATS and get your belly or your beautiful Birth Place baby (babies) in the Orlando Sentinel photo.

 

FACEBOOK!!!

Commonsense Childbirth Inc. - THE BIRTH PLACE

 In an attempt to move with the times - The Birth Place has a new Facebook Group page! Check us out and join in the fun. Find out more about what's happening at The Birth Place and how you can help us by knitting or crocheting a baby hat for our Campaign for Healthier Babies. See you there! (Search: Commonsense Childbirth Inc. - The Birth Place on Facebook after you sign in at www.facebook.com or click here Join us on Facebook!) Jennie and staff

 

SWINE FLU - be careful but be sensible too! See Health Department update below.

This link has some useful information about swine flu

Dr. Mercola discusses swine flu

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/04/28/Swine-Flu.aspx

  Pregnant? Postpartum? Parenting?

Orange County Health Department - updated october 14, 2009

 

new information

October14, 2009

Ask The Author Event: Sunday November 16, 2008 Whole Foods - Orlando Store at 2pm

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 23, 2008

CURRENT CONTROVERSIES IN PREGNANCY AND BIRTH

What is Jennie Up To These Days??!

Traveling, speaking - you name it! Thanks for bearing with me as I answer the call to go out into the community and share the message, the truth about birth in America, the fact that we are making a difference and that the time for change is RIGHT NOW. I have outlined some of my commitments below; know that I appreciate your support and understanding of my need to be gone from the center from time to time. My commitment to your best birth experience has not changed (nor will it) andOnidis, Amy and The Birth Place staff continue to provide the ultimate midwifery care - The JJ Way™.

 

Baby! International Film Festival hosted by The Birth Place and Commonsense Childbirth

Jennie Joseph and her team at Common Sense Childbirth Inc. and The Birth Place present a BABY! International Film Festival at the Plaza Theater in Orlando, October 2nd and 3rd 2009!

Fifth Third Bank Orlando Magic Maker Monica May: Committed To Others

Monica Magic MakerORLANDO ­Her reasons for being tremendously involved with two local benevolent organizations while trying to balance a career and mentor her 19 year­-old daughter are quite simple: intuition and common sense.

It was Fifth Third Bank Orlando Magic Maker Monica May's intuition that led her to become extensively involved with the programs Common Sense Childbirth Inc., and Consider Your Image, a non­-profit organization she founded herself. And it's common sense that drives her today.

"I know there is a simple way to life," explains May. "If there is an opportunity to help put together a road map for young people, I want to be a part of that."

But May has been more than just a part of children's lives. In her work with Common Sense Childbirth, Inc., May helps to inspire a change in maternal child healthcare. The program empowers mothers (especially young and indigent) to bring healthy babies to term. The model was created by May's close friend, Jennie Joseph, a midwife who specializes in providing prenatal healthcare and nurturing to populations that typically don't get the proper treatment in traditional health settings.

Making Tough Decisions Without All the Facts: How Inadequate Informed Consent Puts Childbearing Families at Risk

Making Tough Decisions Without All the Facts:

How Inadequate Informed Consent Puts Childbearing

 Families at Risk

PRESS CONTACT: Kara Dress, 202-367-2434, marketing@lamaze. org

Midwives struggle with high costs

From tampabay.com. In Print: Monday, February 23, 2009.

Jennie Joseph talks with Judi Severe and her son Jovan.WINTER GARDEN — This Central Florida office feels more like a home than a maternity ward, with portraits of glowing mothers-to-be proudly displayed on the walls leading to the "suites." The Van Gogh room has a nighttime feel, with a dark blue couch near a star-designed quilted bed and the Starry Night painting hanging above.

And then there is the birthing stool oddly found in the mix, looking more like a misplaced item in a bedroom.

It is the vision of Jennie Joseph, an energetic midwife originally from England who has run this birthing center since 1994.

Her waiting room is filled with expectant parents, but times are still tough for her and many of Florida's approximately 110 midwives.

Insurance is expensive — when policies are available. The number of new mothers choosing midwives seems to have peaked. Some colleges have closed their midwifery programs citing a lack of enrolment. And some still question the safety of having a child outside of a hospital.

"We have this complete myth we created around birth. Subsequently that has prevented midwives from becoming a staple in this country," Joseph said.

There are about 20,000 midwives in the United States, performing about 320,000 reported deliveries per year, according to the North American Registry of Midwives and federal government statistics. That's about 1 in 12 nationally. Because of under-reporting, the actual number is probably higher.