Parents, Expectant Parents, and Babies

December 10, 2009

by Kate Katahdin

Wow what a Day!  It was so amazing to see the lecture hall filled to capacity and know that I'd had a big part of helping make the Day with Ina May on December 5th work here in  Durham. We can harness this enthusiasm to legalize CPM's in the state.

Ina May's lecture - Midwives: The Key to Reducing Infant Mortality in North Carolina and Safe Motherhood Across Ethnic Lines focused on Infant Mortality, as well as, the somber reality that mother's still die in this country as the result of childbirth in her Safe Motherhood Quilt Project.  30 other countries have better maternal mortality rates than the US.  Maternal death rates are greatly under reported.

I've enjoyed working with everyone.  It was nice to be able to see the project through from being one of the Ina May committee members that met back in early November to seeing the packed lecture hall and workshop rooms. Thanks to everyone for pitching in at the event.

Stay tuned for more things to do.  So when's our next event.  I hear Victoria Brown's got something up her sleeve.