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New pregnancy charts

While I was in the UK, I had an opportunity to get together with the artist whom we have commissioned to produce a wonderful new set of pregnancy charts. This series will replace several sets of charts we currently stock and be more useful for educators, who won’t have to buy so many separate chart series. It will also have no words, making it useful for educators who work in languages other than English.

The charts will be part of the next release in “The Essential Educator” series. The first two packages in this unique series will be available next month and the third set, on the theme of Pregnancy, will be released in July. The Pregnancy Charts are the centrepiece of this package and will offer a wonderful visual aid to help women understand fetal growth, the changes in their body from conception to birth, and the development of twins.

Meeting with Joanne Acty, the artist who also drew the “Giving Birth” chart series, was terrific and we discussed the finer details of the project. She had some of preliminary work to show me and it is looking fabulous. Instead of using coloured pencils to painstakingly create layers of colour as she did for the “Giving Birth” series, this time she is using the computer and some special techniques to develop images that are similar to drawings but easier to replicate.

She is a very talented artist and runs her own art school where she works with adults and children to enable them to develop their creativity. Joanne has had home births herself, so she is very familiar with the philosophy that underpins everything we do at Birth International and it is a pleasure to work with her. Can’t wait to get my hands on the finished product.......

Posted by andrea at April 18, 2006 05:28 PM