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May 2: Breastfeeding Essentials
A local lactation consultant will share information on getting the best start to breastfeeding, common issues and solutions, and options for support.
It's your birth.
Know your options.
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Membership drive in progress to grow our chapter! Please click HERE to become a Birth Advocate or Professional Member.
Improving Birth National Rally for Change
Labor Day, September 3, 2012
(www.improvingbirth.org)
Film Screening of Birth Story with
Ina May and The Farm Midwives!!
Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013
Knoxville Museum of Art Auditorium
Ina May Gaskin and Carol Nelson joined us for the screening, signing books, smiling for photo after photo, and answering questions after the film. Ina May also showed us some of the panels from her Safe Motherhood Quilt Project. We had over 150 in attendance and it was an AWESOME event!
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Education & Support
Postpartum Depression Support Group - Knoxville
Bearden Branch Library
Meets second Thursdays, 10am and fourth Saturdays at 2:30pm
EXCEPTION FOR MAY: SATURDAY MEETING IS MAY 18. Events are posted on Facebook (closed group).
ICAN meets second Tuesdays, 6pm
Bearden Branch Library, Knoxville
Details on Facebook: ICAN of Knoxville, TN
Nursing Mamas
Meets 4th Wednesday at 10am
Christ Our Savior Lutheran Church
Loudon on Hwy 72
Free: RSVP to Lisa @865.556.4584
Infant Massage Classes with Knoxville Baby Lady
The fee is $50.00 for the 3-week course.
You MUST RSVP to 865-719-5485 or knoxvillebabylady@gmail.com
Recent Events
Birth
The Play by Karen Brody
(www.boldaction.org)
Often referred to as the Vagina Monologues of birth, this play presents the funny and heart-breaking stories of eight women, exposing their emotional experiences of birth and raising questions about the rights of all childbearing women.
Saturday, October 13, 7pm
Sunday, October 14, 3pm
Relix Variety Theater
Film Premier: Freedom For Birth
Thursday, September 20, 2012, 6:30 pm
Blount County Public Library
Free & open to the public
