well our lovely friend Kathy (a fellow homebirth enthusist ) told me that this week is
Homebirth week so heres me celebrating by posting
Home Birth Aotearoa

this little slurp was found on Scoop


Celebrating Homebirth Week Monday, 18 October 2004, 9:42 amPress Release: Parent's Centre
Celebrating Homebirth Week
Born at home.
19 October 2004

Home Birth Week is being celebrated around NZ from 25 - 31 October 2004. The theme this year is 'Born At Home'.
Home birth is the best option for many women who want a safe, normal, and humanised birth for themselves, their babies and their whanau.
A wealth of information and research is available looking at the comparative safety of birthing at home and in a hospital environment. The evidence is clear: home can be the safest and most comfortable option for many women and their babies.

Research shows that low-risk women who plan a home birth were half as likely to have a caesarean section as those who plan a hospital birth. A joint study by AUT and South Auckland Health concluded that it was 'less safe for low risk women to birth at a base hospital' due to the higher likelihood of intervention.

The World Health Organisation states that at least 80% of all women are capable of a normal birth - without any intervention. New Zealand trends do not reflect this. The high rate of medical interventions in New Zealand is reflected in our high rate of hospital births.
Scientific evidence also shows labour pain is significantly increased by labouring in an unfamiliar place, being surrounded by unfamiliar people and unfamiliar procedures. This explains the epidemic of epidural use for normal labour pain, which can lead to further medical procedures during and after a hospital birth. Pain is an important part of the natural process.
Parents Centres NZ Inc recognises birth to be a significant life event and a normal physiological process. Home birthing can enable more women to achieve a positive birth experience. Parents Centres NZ Inc has been promoting normal active births for over 50 years, and applauds countries, like Holland, where home births are the norm.

Birthing a baby should be an empowering experience. Research shows that choosing to birth outside a medical environment increases the likelihood of shorter labours, feelings of empowerment and successful breastfeeding. Evidence of lower medical intervention rates and lower fetal distress during labour contribute to a better safety record for mothers and babies birthing at home or at birthing units.

Home Birth Week is a time to reflect on the accepted norm for birth today and spread the word that birth can be empowering, easier and safer at home.

Parents Centres NZ Inc. is proud to support Home Birth Week.

You can read about our Homebirth here you may need to scroll down till you get to Sep 6th

http://www.meetup.com/cities/nz/wellington/
hehe this is funny find a interest group that meets together in wellington ,
options include:

Goths
Pagans coffee meet
veganism
expat americans
orlando bloom fans
vampires
cheerleading
insane clown posse
and
Ex jehovah witness meetup groups

Stress in Infancy by Linda Folden Palmer, D.C. something i just read

http://www.wnho.net/vaccine_ingredients.htm whats in them vaccines? according to this guy anyway

ive been researching babies brain development and how being a responsive parent affects Lucy
brainwaves trust is a NZ organisation, made up of doctors, educationalists, academic and business professionals who all work voluntarily,

parents action, is a national (american) non-profit dedicated to advancing the interests of families and young children has a great artical here :http://www.parentsaction.org/learn/parenting/development/braindevelopment-1/

and this site http://www.classbrain.com/artread/publish/article_30.shtml

L' Auberge Espagnol

i just got home from seeing this film, oh the delights of housewifelyness (tuesday morning movie goings and cafe frequenting on Jackson street ) in the mid day sun. Although i seem to have an inner revolt against being a housewife i'm am beginning to attmit to that this life is sweet. Made sweeter by the fact of Mums and Bubs Yoga on Fridays , Movies on Tuesday mornings and living just a hop and a skip from gallerys and cafes and the beach, all laid out for mine(and Lucys ) enjoyment.
Ange the mamma, wife and artist (hehe)

cloth nappies

http://www.econappies.co.nz/cloth-nappies-debate.html this has some sums of the cost to the enviroment and to parents pockets (also a great site 'cos its in NZ dollars)

some interesting stuff i found here

Disposable diapers contain traces of Dioxin, an extremely toxic by-product of the paper-bleaching process. It is a carcinogenic chemical, listed by the EPA as the most toxic of all cancer-linked chemicals. It is banned in most countries, but not the U.S..1

Disposable diapers contain Tributyl-tin (TBT) - a toxic pollutant known to cause hormonal problems in humans and animals.2

Disposable diapers contain sodium polyacrylate (SAP), which becomes a gel-like substance when wet. This chemical can cause skin irritations and severe allergic reactions including vomiting, staph infections and fever. SAP was banned from tampons in 1985 due to links to toxic shock syndrome.3

Based on these calculations, if we multiply the 8.8 million babies in disposable diapers by an average cost of $800 a year, we find that Americans spend about 7 billion dollars on disposable diapers every year. If every one of those families switched to home-laundered cloth prefold diapers, they would save more than $6 billion¹⁴, enough to feed about 2.5 million American children for an entire year¹⁵. Coincidentally, the 2002 U.S. Census reveals that 2.3 million children under 6 live in poverty¹⁶.

Over 300 pounds of wood, 50 pounds of petroleum feedstocks and 20 pounds of chlorine are used to produce disposable diapers for one baby EACH YEAR.6

Children Need Touching and Attention, Harvard Researchers Say
By Alvin Powell