2008 –the year of Homebirth Awareness!
Changing our world through one action a day.
The time has come to speak out as women and mothers about how our lives have been changed by the beauty of birthing at home. We cannot stand by as more women go through the conveyor belts of our maternity hospitals without speaking the truth –
Birth is safe, interference is risky*, birth belongs at home.
Join all of us in speaking out with just one action a day, however small, and be the ripple effect as each of us across Australia, and around the world, speaks out to inform, normalise and honour birth.
What can you do in one day? How about these ideas?!
* put a HOMEBIRTH sticker on your car, pram, bicycle helmet, letterbox, gate, fence, front door
* sew a homebirth patch on your sling or wrap
* get a note in your school newsletter
* put your homebirth pics on youtube
* drop off info on normal physiological birth to your local medical centre
* tell someone about your homebirth, past, present, or planned
* write a letter to your daily, local or national newspaper
* buy a homebirth book for your local library, don't forget the kids' section
* talk to your community group, ABA group, LLL group, mothers' group however casually you like
* tell your GP if you have one
* tell your natural therapists and give them some hb brochures
* carry a hb tote bag
* take a few pamphlets everywhere just in case the need arises
* say "Homebirth is lovely" on mainstream internet forums
* change your sig to something supportive of homebirth on mainstream forums
* put info on your website, blog, community group website or anywhere else you can
* host a showing of BOBB in your local area and invite the newspapers
* go to anything women-related and talk about homebirth - WEL, CWA, IWD.....
* do some community-minded graffiti or even a mural!
* write stuff on toilet walls in maternity hospitals
* do some Wiki edits
* put a homebirth quote in your email sig
* ring the radio when talkback time is on and say all health matters would be solved by women having babies at home
* do an essay at uni about it if you can, or a tutorial presentation
* wear a homebirth tshirt, put homebirth clothes on innocent children who can't protest
Slogans you can use!
Birth - every home should have one
Save hospital beds for sick people - have a homebirth'
Home Made, Home Birthed, Home Grown
HOMEBIRTH - Sacred and Safe
For Safety Choose a Midwife
Better Birth begins at Home
Conceive at home? Birth at home!
Stay-at-home birther
Drugs in birth? Just Say No!
Induction? Just Say No!
Birth pool hire $50.00, scented candle $10.00, new roll of film $6.00, homebirth PRICELESS
Vaginas, they're not just painted on
Birth is not a Disease
Midwives for Birth! Doctors for Disease!
women give birth, pizzas are delivered
homebirth IS the safe option
I was born to birth.
Birthing Goddess
Homebirth. Just do it.
Home Sweet Homebirth
Homebirth. The Thinking Woman's choice."?
Made with Love at Home, Arrived with Love at Home
Home is Where My Birth Is
Back to Basics: Made with Love, Birth at Home, Feed with Joy
Homebirth. The Intelligent Choice.
Homebirth, the fun choice!
Birth does not belong in hospital
Choose homebirth!
Let's raise some awareness!!
* thanks to Trust Birth for "Birth is safe, interference is risky"
www.trustbirth.com
Changing our world through one action a day.
The time has come to speak out as women and mothers about how our lives have been changed by the beauty of birthing at home. We cannot stand by as more women go through the conveyor belts of our maternity hospitals without speaking the truth –
Birth is safe, interference is risky*, birth belongs at home.
Join all of us in speaking out with just one action a day, however small, and be the ripple effect as each of us across Australia, and around the world, speaks out to inform, normalise and honour birth.
What can you do in one day? How about these ideas?!
* put a HOMEBIRTH sticker on your car, pram, bicycle helmet, letterbox, gate, fence, front door
* sew a homebirth patch on your sling or wrap
* get a note in your school newsletter
* put your homebirth pics on youtube
* drop off info on normal physiological birth to your local medical centre
* tell someone about your homebirth, past, present, or planned
* write a letter to your daily, local or national newspaper
* buy a homebirth book for your local library, don't forget the kids' section
* talk to your community group, ABA group, LLL group, mothers' group however casually you like
* tell your GP if you have one
* tell your natural therapists and give them some hb brochures
* carry a hb tote bag
* take a few pamphlets everywhere just in case the need arises
* say "Homebirth is lovely" on mainstream internet forums
* change your sig to something supportive of homebirth on mainstream forums
* put info on your website, blog, community group website or anywhere else you can
* host a showing of BOBB in your local area and invite the newspapers
* go to anything women-related and talk about homebirth - WEL, CWA, IWD.....
* do some community-minded graffiti or even a mural!
* write stuff on toilet walls in maternity hospitals
* do some Wiki edits
* put a homebirth quote in your email sig
* ring the radio when talkback time is on and say all health matters would be solved by women having babies at home
* do an essay at uni about it if you can, or a tutorial presentation
* wear a homebirth tshirt, put homebirth clothes on innocent children who can't protest
Slogans you can use!
Birth - every home should have one
Save hospital beds for sick people - have a homebirth'
Home Made, Home Birthed, Home Grown
HOMEBIRTH - Sacred and Safe
For Safety Choose a Midwife
Better Birth begins at Home
Conceive at home? Birth at home!
Stay-at-home birther
Drugs in birth? Just Say No!
Induction? Just Say No!
Birth pool hire $50.00, scented candle $10.00, new roll of film $6.00, homebirth PRICELESS
Vaginas, they're not just painted on
Birth is not a Disease
Midwives for Birth! Doctors for Disease!
women give birth, pizzas are delivered
homebirth IS the safe option
I was born to birth.
Birthing Goddess
Homebirth. Just do it.
Home Sweet Homebirth
Homebirth. The Thinking Woman's choice."?
Made with Love at Home, Arrived with Love at Home
Home is Where My Birth Is
Back to Basics: Made with Love, Birth at Home, Feed with Joy
Homebirth. The Intelligent Choice.
Homebirth, the fun choice!
Birth does not belong in hospital
Choose homebirth!
Let's raise some awareness!!
* thanks to Trust Birth for "Birth is safe, interference is risky"
www.trustbirth.com
I actually ordered some cute advocacywear for the babe on the way...need to get some bumperstickers & the like though. 
Lot's of good ideas there! 
Don't make me the lone voice! 
Thank you!! 
<- easily excited
