Normal Birth Hawaii
Hawaii's Premier Non-Profit
Community-Service Childbirth Organization

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Contact us at :

normalbirthhawaii.com and (808) 26-BIRTH/262-4784

Note our picture in the upper left corner: This is a sacred Hawaiian birthing landmark on the island of O'ahu, in Hawaii . If you look carefully you can see the profile of a resting pregnant woman. In this scene her full abdomen rests below a layer of clouds. "She" is called Ka Wahine Hapai (The Pregnant Woman). This picture was taken from the treasured Wahiawa Birthing Stones site, one of the most sacred spots in all of the Islands. This is the view pregnant, royal, ancient Hawaiian women had as they birthed kings, queens, and other royal Hawaiian offspring.

Pictured below is a woman who is visiting the sacred birthing stones for healing. She stands beneath Ka Wahine Hapai for a ritual of healing for a life-long birth saddness and finds freedom and grace to move on.

We are a not-for-profit childbirth organization under the umbrella of Lamaze™ International as a
Birth Network.

We are certified Lamaze teachers, doulas, midwives, nurses, infant-instinct breastfeeding and
newborn care teachers.

We have an acupuncturist and a chiropractor specializing in services to pregnant women.

We also have family/parent members and others who support normalcy and choices in childbirth. We are interested in helping young (and young at heart) women find careers in the birthing world as childbirth educators, doulas and midwives.

"Preparation to Become a Childbirth Educator" Workshops

Dates TBA for later in 2012

We serve our state-wide birthing community as a channel of information about childbirth and related services available to expectant and new parents.

We will help you turn your fears into courage and your partner into your

Guardian of Courage,
Guardian of your Birth Place, and Guardians of the Nest!

NormalBirthHawaii.com

808-26-BIRTH/262-4784

        Mission:

The Mission of Normal Birth Hawaii is to spread the truth that pregnancy, labor, birth and breastfeeding are normal, natural physiological processes. We support Hawaii’s expectant and parenting community by offering referrals to quality caregivers and birth related services. Our mission also is to support certified and aspiring childbirth professionals to prosper in their chosen birthing fields. In these and other ways, our mission is to empower expectant and new parents with knowledge and confidence.

  Vision:

Members of Normal Birth Hawaii envision a world which does not
fear pregnancy, labor, birth and breastfeeding. We envision a world in which the rights of expectant, laboring, birthing, and breastfeeding
people are respected. We also envision a world where pregnancy, labor, birth and breastfeeding are regarded as sacred, normal events which can offer surmountable challenges and triumphant rewards never before expected or experienced by those involved. We envision a world of birth providers who trust birth and approach it gently. Finally, we envision
labors of healthy women occurring spontaneously to preserve the
integrity of the birth process

We Value:
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The Lamaze Six Care Practices and the Lamaze Philosophy.·
Pregnancy, labor, birth and breastfeeding as experiences of health·
That all women have the inner wisdom to guide them in birth·
Knowledge as power·
Transparency in maternal care services
Women’s rights to labor and birth where they feel safest
A meticulous interview process for choosing birth-positive care providers·
Helping all birth partners skillfully and fully engage with laboring, birthing and breastfeeding mothers whom they are supporting
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Couples enabled to birth in communion with each other    and their babies. ·
Respecting the spontaneity of labor, birth and breastfeeding·
Patient/client access to Informed Refusal well as Informed Consent·
An evidence based, World Health Organization (WHO) supported, MotherBaby-Friendly approach to intervention in the process of labor, birth and breastfeeding ·
Immediate Skin-to-Skin/Eye-to-Eye contact between the newborn and one or more of its parents

An action approach to community outreach
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Compassion and open-mindedness toward the birthing hopes and dreams of all of our clients Honesty, integrity, hope and passion within our members

MOTTO:
The truth about labor is not
that it may be painful
but that women are strong.

Normal Birth Hawaii, September 2, 2010©