Hi! Welcome to our first Community Service Crafting Craft-Along! We are looking for those interested in knitting or crocheting for an excellent cause 
Please join us to help honor babies who have died before their first birthdays and to help the International Center for Traditional Childbearing spread the word about infant mortality and its prevention. Get Involved to Support Infant and Maternal Outcomes!
MDC would like to help spread the word. We invite you to please join us and knit or crochet a hat today! This project will be facilitated by AdinaL so please direct forum-related questions to her.
Here are some hat patterns. We will also host a show-off thread (with images!) to admire each other's work.
Please feel free to post if you're interested in participating and let's share in the joy of creating for a great cause Thank you so much!
Please join us to help honor babies who have died before their first birthdays and to help the International Center for Traditional Childbearing spread the word about infant mortality and its prevention. Get Involved to Support Infant and Maternal Outcomes!
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| The International Center for Traditional Childbearing (ICTC) is observing the September National Infant Mortality Awareness Month with the Heads Up on Infant Mortality Campaign. “Heads Up” is an ICTC Infant Mortality Awareness Campaign to let our neighbors know that too many babies are still dying in our nation. Please help knit infant hats to represent the number of babies who died in before their first birthdays. The hats will serve as a memorial to the young lives lost. ICTC is asking every able body to join us in knitting or crocheting infant hats and sending them to the ICTC State Representative by September 15th. The ICTC State Representatives are listed on WWW.ICTCMIDWIVES.ORG, or you can send them to the national headquarters at: Quote:
Infant Mortality Awareness Month was created by a resolution of the U.S. House of Representatives in 2006. Said Representative Michael Burgess (TX-26), a sponsor of the resolution, “Infant mortality rates are appalling,” in response to the infant mortality rate in the U.S., which is 30th in the world. The goals of Infant Mortality Awareness Month are to increase national awareness of contributing factors to infant mortality, and to urge community leaders to assist in efforts to meet reduce the rate of infant mortality in this country by 2010. The U.S. has one of the highest infant mortality rates among the industrialized nations, and an African American baby has the highest infant mortality rate of any race at 13.5 per 1,000 live births compared with 5.7 per 1,000 live births for whites and Hispanics, according to statistics from the CDC. In 2008, over 27,600 infants died before age one and most of the deaths were preventable. Monroe, president and founder, says, “factors that contribute to the higher rates of infant deaths include: premature births, low-birth weight, poverty, poor-education about proper food choices, poor pre-conception health, late prenatal care (beginning prenatal care late in the 2nd trimester), less than 5 prenatal visits, high blood pressure (causing restricted blood flow to the placenta) and hypertension formally referred to as pre-eclampsia, SIDS, failure to thrive syndrome and accidents.” The International Center for Traditional Childbearing (ICTC) is an infant mortality prevention, breastfeeding promotion and midwife training organization. The mission is to increase the number of black midwives, doulas, and healers, and to empower families in order to reduce maternal and infant mortality. Established in 1991 and headquartered in Portland, Oregon, they have chapters and members around the globe to improve birth outcomes. Monroe says, “To reduce infant mortality the use of midwives is essential, as is the need for women to breastfeed their babies for at least one year. Socially, pregnant women need to be loved, protected, nurtured and helped, not just during pregnancy but during the full spectrum of motherhood.” Monroe concludes, “It Takes a Village to Raise a Child" and the village forms at pregnancy.” This project is being co-sponsored by Birthing Hands of DC, JJ Way™, and the National Association of Certified Professional Midwives. |
Here are some hat patterns. We will also host a show-off thread (with images!) to admire each other's work.
Please feel free to post if you're interested in participating and let's share in the joy of creating for a great cause
Thank you so much!
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