Hi Friends,

A concern has been raised regarding the legal ramifications of
effectively `turning ourselves in' with these photographs. If you are
uncomfortable submitting a photo for this project because of this
concern, then simply omit your name from your caption and only send a
photo of your newborn. Or perhaps you can still submit a photo of
your family & request that we draw a line across your eyes with a
Sharpie or black out your faces. (t would also show the ridiculous
measures we go thru to protect our families!)

Also, it would be great if you would add to your caption the
occupation of you and your partner. For example:

`Isabel born at home May 5, 2008 in GA with a CPM, to a Teacher and a
Pharmacist.'

Please let me know if you have any questions: jennifer@...

Thanks!

Jennifer Fargár--- In alaboroflove_webgroup@yahoogroups.com, "Teresa

Howard" <georgiadoula@...> wrote:
>
> 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
>