Mother’s Day Celebration
Despite extremely chilly conditions on Mother’s Day, the home birth community came out to support our Home Birth Midwives Collective as we launched our new website. The Chingford Park Stables was warmed by singing, dancing and stories as women and their families celebrated mother’s day and shared stories of why home birth is important to them.
Cecil's puppet show
Activities at the launch included a delightful puppet show about giving birth by Cecil, a spiral dance to connect all the mothers and lovely face painting for the kids.
Deb and Ana singing
We also had some wonderful singing from the St Michael’s Chorale of Dunedin Rudolf Steiner school, King Leo and also Deb and her hapu daughter Ana with a great North American Indian chant.
The vessel ceremony was a lovely way to hear from everyone about what’s special
The Vessel
to them about home birth. We were so honoured to have this special vessel from home birth Aotearoa with us.
The banner
Hands framing our banner
During the day we asked everyone to help us with the painting of a banner proclaiming “Peace On Earth Begins At Birth”. We framed the banner with handprints from the people there. We’re planning to join the Christmas Parade this year and use the banner on our float. This slogan is also on our new bumper sticker which you may start to see around town. If you’d like one for your car – email us.
It was great to have the Otago Daily Times there and to see a great photo and a wee blurb on page 2 the next day. They only got a few minor details muddled and it was fabulous to see the following sentence in prominent media
We know there were many more who would have joined us had the weather not been quite so abysmal so perhaps we’ll have another celebration for home birth week in October.
Overall we were really pleased with how the day went. We’d love your comments too.
Posted: May 21, 2009 by 'tracyb'.
Celebration Eve
Tomorrow is the day for our Collective launch and Mother’s Day celebration.
It’s a big full moon and most of our midwives have women due so it will be interesting to see if we can all get to the celebration tomorrow.
The weather forecast is for snow and cold southerlies with a high of 5 degrees – that can’t really be called a high can it?
Anyway – luckily we have an indoor space as well so we will hope that people brave the storm and come and join us.
If you are reading this after having come along – thank you for being there!
Posted: May 9, 2009 by 'tracyb'.
Our celebration
We have finally got a date booked for our “launch” and can you believe it – it turns out to be Mother’s Day. How perfect.
We have found a photo to use for our flyer and promotional material
Lilly on hand
Thank you to Alije and Daniel for sharing this lovely picture of Lilly. I love the symbolism of the supportive hand.
Posted: April 11, 2009 by 'tracyb'.