<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252"%> Oh Mama! Birth and Baby Fair to benefit Midwives for Haiti

Oh Mama!
Birth and Baby Fair
Saturday, May 8, 2010
10 am - 2 pm

Lewis Ginter Recreation Association
3421 Hawthorne Avenue
Richmond, VA 23222

Sponsors | Exhibitors | Honor a Midwife

To benefit:

Information • Shopping • Door Prizes • Activities for Little Ones • Great Food

Tickets: $5 per adult

Scrumptious refreshments by Chef Maura
and Cartwheels and Coffee

Meet • Learn • Shop • Honor 

Don't miss this opportunity to attend a singular gathering of local businesses, artisans and health care providers who specialize in goods and services for expecting and new families.

Meet health care providers, hospital representatives, doulas, massage therapists, chiropractors and other service providers who specialize in pregnancy and postpartum.

Learn about birth and early parenting resources and alternatives in the Richmond community.

Shop a great selection of Richmond’s local retailers and artisans.

Honor Richmond’s local midwives through your purchase of tickets and donations to Midwives For Haiti.

Sponsors

OmMama Henrico Doctor's Hospital
The Midwives at VCU Medical Center VCU Women's Health Institute

Exhibitors

OmMama Henrico Doctor's Hospital
Gittings Massage Therapy
 

 

Honor Your Local Midwife

May 5th is International Midwives’ Day. The Oh Mama! Birth & Baby Fair encourages Richmond families whose lives have been touched by local midwives to make a donation to Midwives For Haiti in their honor.

Midwives for Haiti is a Richmond based non-profit that organizes midwives and other clinicians from around the world to instruct Haitian women in delivering prenatal care and serving as skilled birth attendants. OmMama, event partners, and visitors are hoping to raise $5000 through this event to enable a Haitian midwife to practice for a year.

Honor a Richmond midwife with a donation to Midwives For Haiti and we’ll publish the total contribution at our May 8th event and send thank you notes to each of the midwives who have practiced in Richmond over the last 20 years.

Consider donating $5, $10, or $20 for each child you've had with the support of a midwife. You'll be contributing to a sustainable model of care and improving the lives of women and babies in a country that currently has the worst maternal and infant mortality in the Western Hemisphere.

Make a donation:

"Investing in Human Capital such as midwives for childbirth is the wisest investment that we can ever make, to ensure sustainability, ownership, fulfillment, and consistently high results."

— Joy Phumaphi, Assistant Director-General, Family and Community Health, World Health Organization