I just got this from our own Jennifer and Krista:

Hello GA Friends of Midwives:

We had a great GFOM's meeting yesterday and are excited about many new
ideas!

Item 1: We are putting together a scrap book of Georgia home birth
families and we need your help with this.

We are going to send this book the GA Dept. of Public Health in our
support to the new pilot program.

We want to show them the real faces of homebirth families.

We want to show them we are "normal" healthy, wise, educated, loving
people.

We are asking for your pictures of your homebirthed-in-Georgia babies
on a standard sized piece of construction paper

with a small blurb explaining who you are. Photos of babies with
families are favorable. Limit your caption to a few sentences. For
example:

The Alborg Family

Callan Timothy born at home

in Decatur GA with a CPM on December 15th, 2007

If you would like to add a letter to Dr. Ford (the Director of the
Dept. of Public Health), please do so on separate sheet of paper. This
letter can be in support of this

pilot program with our CPM's and urging her to get this started ASAP.
Let her know home birth is important to you!

This project depends on your participation to be successful! To make
it easy for you to contribute, you can either mail your finished
scrapbook sheet, decorated by you and/or your kids to

Reid Forrester

343 Josephine Street

Atlanta GA 30307

or you can email your photos and caption to Reid Forrester
motherheart@... and GFOM volunteers will make a sheet for you.
Our scrapbooking party will be December 18 at 10:00 am. Please RSVP
if you can make it!

We will tie the finished project with a ribbon and present to Dr. Ford
as a Christmas present from the homebirthing families of Georgia. If
we have enough to create more than one book, we will send them to our
elected officials and other advocate supporters.

Please have your items in the mail no later than December 14th.

Item 2: We will have a children's consignment clothing sale in the
Spring 2009. All the proceeds will go

to the GA. Friends of Midwives, and we need your Donations.

Please start saving all your used clothes for us.

We will be starting our monthly potlucks on the 3rd Saturday of every
month starting Jan 17th.

We will collect bags of clothes then.

You can always drop your clothes off at my house to anytime, or we can
arrange pick ups.


Item 3: If you haven't joined the GA Friends of Midwives yahoo group
yet please do by sending an email to gfomchat@yahoogroups.com to join
us there for further info and discussion.


Item 4: We look forward to seeing you on Jan 17th for family potluck
and birth film showing. More details to come!


Thank you for your continued support!

GFOM volunteers

Jennifer, Reid, Krista, Nathalie