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Spreading the natural birth message in South East Asia

I am staying with my friends Melanie and Tanit Habanananda in Bournemouth for a few days. They spend half of their year in the UK and the other half in Thailand, where they work with the Childbirth and Breastfeeding Foundation of Thailand.

Getting together with them, as I try to do as often as I can, gives us a chance to compare the birth practices in Thailand, the UK and Australia, and we often spend hours tossing ideas back and forth about how to promote natural birth across these vastly differing cultures. The Foundation has been invited to present programs in Vietnam and Laos, which is very exciting, and it seems there are some real chances of improving birth in those countries as well, given time.

One project we will start working on soon is the development of a training package that can be used to “train the trainers” in ways of introducing natural birth practices into these developing countries. It is not that women don’t have the chance to give birth without drugs in upright positions - the problem often revolves around the dehumanisation of birth and the lack of sensitivity and basic human rights that occurs when women are forced to go to clinics or hospitals to have their babies.

These are exciting projects and I am looking forward to assisting with the development of the training materials the Foundation will need. Writing a training manual for a country and culture I know little about will certainly be a challenge!

Posted by andrea at June 12, 2003 08:54 PM

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