MACA - Mississippi Alliance of Childbirth Assistants Newsletter

Edition #5 - July 2003

Newsletter Sections

• To maintain our primary responsibility is to our clients
  
• To act as an open forum for peer review, consultation and ethical accountability
  
• To use our knowledge of spiritual mothering to build nurturing relationships
  
• To equip and encourage our clients, peers and our communities with knowledge of birth as a safe normal process
  
• To instill in our clients trust in their primal birth instincts
  
• To act as a resource network to women during their childbearing years.
  

• When discussing client cases, we will not use first and last names without written permission from the client.
  
• We will share information regarding interaction with healthcare professionals and places with each other as a means of better serving our clients.
  
• All persons should be treated respectfully and equally within the association.
  
• All cases discussed between group members present at or away from group meetings will be held in utmost confidentiality.
  

  
  

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  Poem of the Month

  A Soul is Born
  
  A soul is born
  In a beautiful flash
  Parents predestined
  Life lessons are cast
  
  Male and Female
  Combined into one
  A heart begins beating
  Love's work has been done
  
  Creative potential
  Unleashed in this space
  Cradled by Love
  In a warm embrace
  
  Free will is given
  We have choices to make
  Within the physical world
  And to spiritually wake
  
  In the hands of God
  We started as love
  An expression of self
  Divine gifts from above
  
  It's all there inside you
  Be still and you'll see
  We are love from within
  I am you, you are me
  
  So, love one another
  That's the highest to give
  Honor, release judgment
  That's our reason to live
  
  
  Kimberly Sauter
  

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  Next Meeting

  Date: July 29, 2003
  Time: 10:30 A.M.
  Place: Candi Hilton's House