Bay Area Birth Association and CAM are pleased to announce a special sneak preview of
“THE BUSINESS OF BEING BORN”
Directed by Abby Epstein, Executive Produced by Ricki Lake
ON: February 21, 2008
LOCATION & TIME: 7:00pm, Alameda
TICKETS: $5 adults, children are free
Bay Area Birth Association Presents:
Working with Grieving Couples Workshop
Saturday, April 14
10:00 am –1:00 pm
California Pacific Medical Center, California Campus
3700 California Street in Dining Rooms ABC
http://www.cpmc.org/visiting/
$30.00 - BABA members
$40.00 - non-BABA members
Anesthesia for Obstetrics
Presented by: Mark Rollins, MD, PhD
In depth review designed for birth and postpartum doulas
and childbirth educators
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Advanced Doula Training : Fall 2007
Check back for workshop details, locations and online registration.
Baby’s First Massage Workshop
October 28, 2006
8:30-5pm
Location: New Parent Support Services Office
550 Park St. #108
Alameda, CA
A course for professionals who care about families. Learn to assist prenatal or newly-delivered families in massaging their newborns.
In this course, you will learn to introduce care-givers and new parents to the benefits of providing their infants nurturing systemic touch. This course will enable you to teach the concepts and practical skills of infant massage to small groups with their newborns or large groups with hands-on pratice with dolls.
This workshop offers current research support and understands the uniqe physiological needs of the newborn infant during massage.
The cost of this course is $210 for BABA members and $250 for non-members
Click here to register
Bay Area Birth Association Presents:
Working with Grieving Couples Workshop
Saturday, June 24
10:00 am –1:00 pm
Alameda Family Services - Smart Healthy Babies office
550 Park Street, Ste. 108, Alameda
$45.00 - non-BABA members
$35.00 - BABA members
Topics include:
Please RSVP to:
Bay Area Birth Association
info@bayareabirth.org
www.bayareabirth.org
Facilitated by: Cherie Golant, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker specializing in trauma and loss.
She has a Masters of Science in Social Work from Columbia University in New York,
and a Bachelor’s in Psychology from U.C. Santa Cruz. Cherie has been in practice in the Bay Area
for nearly 10 years and facilitates grief workshops at local hospitals. She is also a bereaved parent,
with a subsequent child
Birth
By Karen Brody
The naked truth of childbirth in America today
Directed by Ross Nelson & Patricia Madden
February 23- March 5, 2006
City Lights Theater
529 S 2nd St, San Jose, CA 95112
Call 408-295-4200 for tickets
Can women in America have the birth experience they want? Birth, the
play, makes its West Coast Premiere at City Lights Theater Company.
Birth has remained an overlooked topic until playwright Karen Brody dove
into this tender and controversial subject. Similar in style to The
Vagina Monologues, Birth is based on over 100 interviews with mothers
across the nation. Karen Brody weaves the experiences of seven women into a
story of choice and knowledge that everyone should see. This is not
Hollywood ’s version of childbirth but rather real stories that paint the
naked truth of birth in America today. Join us as we witness a woman’s
most sacred and personal experience.
Birth is co-produced by City Lights Theater Company’s Spotlight
Series and Bay Area Birth Information (BABI), a South Bay nonprofit
pregnancy, birth and family resource center. Through compassionate, accessible,
and non-judgmental education and resources, BABI promotes greater
awareness of evidenced-based care and the broad range of choices available
to birthing women as well as birth professionals. For more information
about BABI, please visit www.bayareabirthinfo.org. Additional
information about Birth and playwright Karen Brody can be found at
http://www.birththeplay.com.
First BABA-Sponsored Event a Huge Success!
Many of you attended the premier of the film, A Doula Story at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland on Wed, Sept. 14. Thanks to all who attended, it was great to see you and feel the community. You can see how powerful we are when we come together!
There were so many highlights: wonderful singing beforehand by Jane Sterling, an inspiring presentation by BABA president Felicia Roche, then the film, which had many in the audience moved to tears. After the film we got to meet more of the BABA board, Elon, Nicki and Ann.
We were honored to have filmmaker Daniel Alpert and subject (and unquestionable star!) of the film, Loretha Weisinger there for an audience Q&A. Many excellent questions were asked and people were clearly enamored by Loretha and awed by her work.
The doula group Sistas of the Good Birth made their compelling and powerful presentation to wrap up the night.
Big thanks to Alan Michaan and the Grand Lake Theater for working with us so well that night, Active Voice, and to everyone who came, helped and gave your love and support!