Happy Birth Way
...the natural birth choice!
Tampa Bay Birth Network
Member Benefits:
Birth Professionals
For those who work in birth-related businesses, the Network offers opportunities to meet other like-minded birth professionals to share information and resources that can enhance the care given to clients, students and patients. Members will find support and friendship among the growing list of our Network's professional members.
To join, simply print out the application at www.tampabaybirthnetwork.com and send it to:
Tampa Bay Birth Network
PO Box 14236
Clearwater, FL 33766
We look forward to having you as a new member!
MISSION STATEMENT
The purpose of the Tampa Bay Birth Network is to bring together professionals in the natural birth community with expectant women and their partners, to provide care, support, education and guidance for the couple's journey toward birth and new parenthood.
The Network’s professional members believe in these six principles:
· Educating women and their partners about pregnancy, labor and postpartum care so they can be empowered to make personal choices with knowledge and clarity
· Encouraging women and their partners to choose a midwife and/or a doula to assist with their pregnancy and/or labor
· Guiding women toward alternative and complementary medicine in addition to their regular prenatal and labor care
· Advocating for a reduction in the number of unnecessary medical interventions
· Supporting women and their partners in their new role as parents by offering resources about new parenthood, including breastfeeding, infant sleeping and postpartum care
· Promoting breastmilk-only for the first six months, and continuing for an additional six months after food is introduced
If these are principles you also support, consider joining the Tampa Bay Birth Network by printing out the application at www.tampabaybirthnetwork.com.
