Perinatal Loss Workshops in Ohio

Supporting Women through Perinatal Loss
A Workshop for Childbirth Professionals
with Miriam Maslin
http://www.miriammaslin.com/workshops/perinatal.html
"Supporting Women through Perinatal Loss" is a six-hour workshop, limited to
a small group of 15 professionals, in which we will explore the challenge
through stories, meditations, sharing, and teachings.
All of us have experienced loss within our own lives - illness,
relationships, disappointments, shattered dreams, deaths - as well as with
our clients- unexpected outcomes...shattered dreams. These are the dark
places that few of us wish to visit, and yet, once we discover our inner
wisdom and strength, we can help to bring light and healing to our clients,
the people we love, ourselves, and the universe.
Miriam is currently booking her Spring 2010 Speaking Tour. If you are
interested in either hosting or attending a workshop in your area, please
contact her for information at miriam@miriammaslin.com.
She has presented concurrent workshops at both DONA and Birthworks
International Conferences and has been hosted in close to 50 US and Canadian
cities.
The perinatal loss workshop has been approved for CEU's by the following:
DONA, MEAC (Midwifery Education Accreditation Council), CAM and BRN
(California Association of Midwives and Board Registered Nurses),
FAM (Florida Association of Midwives), ATM (Assocation of Texas Midwives),
NMMA (New Mexico Midwifery Association), CAPPA Canada,  and
CMTBC (College of Massage Therapists of British Columbia)
"I attended an enlightening and empowering workshop entitled, "Supporting
Women through Perinatal Loss" guided by Miriam Maslin, an amazing doula and
polarity therapist from Jerusalem. She didn't teach the session but guided
us to the awareness and answers that were within by encouraging us to learn
from each other and to trust in ourselves." ~ "The Neutral Fulcrum" by
MaryBeth Nance, CD(DONA), CLD(CAPPA), International Doula, Volume 16, Issue
2, Page 9
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Wife, mother, grandmother, and retired interior designer, Miriam Maslin has
been a source of inspiration to many: young and old, secular and religious,
long-time searchers and those who are just beginning their own "Interior
Design". Her inner journey has taken her across the spectrum from the
beginning to the end of the life cycle -- she is a doula and has served as a
hospice volunteer. She incorporates both Polarity Therapy (a system of
energy/holistic healing) and spiritual teachings into her work. Miriam
has facilitated workshops for women's groups and professionals all over the
United States, Canada, and Israel.
Miriam Maslin
pregnancy loss support and counseling
polarity therapy and spiritual care
workshops and seminars
p.o.b. 8375, jerusalem 91083 israel
in israel: 02-566-2379
u.s. number in israel: 516-478-9657
miriam@miriammaslin.com
www.miriammaslin.com

Action Alert!

We are down to the wire days left before the final deadline for including Certified Professional Midwives in the Senate health reform bill!

We need everyone to CALL or FAX our TWO U.S. SENATORS from Ohio today!  Our Senators are George Voinovich and Sherrod Brown.  

Please ask them to take the lead in sponsoring an amendment to the Senate health bill to provide Medicaid payment of Certified Professional Midwife services.

Sen. Voinovich

phone: 202-224-3353

fax: 202-224-1382

Sen. Brown

phone: 202-224-2315

fax: 202-224-6321

Keep trying if you don't get through. We MUST make our voices heard and there are LOTS of groups calling about health care reformâ€"support for Certified Professional Midwives and out-of-hospital maternity care needs to get heard through all the noise!

Ask to speak with your Senator's legislative health assistant. Be sure to get his/her name.  This is critical information for us to follow-up with the staff.

Please note that emails and messages left with receptionists are not effective!

Ask that your Senator take the lead in sponsoring an amendment to provide Medicaid payment for the services of Certified Professional Midwives, who are the only type of midwife in the U.S. with specialized training in out-of-hospital maternity care.

Call or email Karen Fennell and tell her who you talked with and any comments or additional information requested so she can follow up with offices. Call 301-830-3910

Some background information and talking points to add if you wish:

• Pregnant women are being denied access to maternity care thanks to an oversight in Medicaid law that denies low-income women who seek out-of-hospital maternity care access to Certified Professional Midwives (CPMs) in all but 11 states.
• Because of this gap in Medicaid law, thousands of women in states across the country unable to utilize the services of providers with a proven record of improving outcomes.
• Denying pregnant women access to Certified Professional Midwives saddles our health care system with hundreds of millions of dollars in additional costs each year.
• Across the country in rural and urban communities, Certified Professional Midwives are already meeting the needs of pregnant women and their infants who have nowhere else to go at a time when many other maternity care providers have abandoned these communities to practice in more affluent suburbs and exurbs.
• Demand for access to out-of-hospital birth under the care of Certified Professional Midwivesâ€"who are specially trained to provide itâ€"has increased 27% since 1996.
• Research consistently shows that low-risk women who plan out-of-hospital births under the care of Certified Professional Midwives experience outcomes equal to low-risk women who give birth in the hospital, but with far fewer costly and preventable interventions, including a five-fold decrease in cesarean surgery.
• Certified Professional Midwives have a proven history of reducing low birth weight and preterm birth, the main causes of neonatal death in the United States and two of the primary contributing factors to racial and ethnic disparities in birth outcomes, as well as to the costs associated with long-term care.