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

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Our membership roll includes childbirth educators, doulas, midwives, nurses, breastfeeding specialists and a CLC, infant care teachers, infant and BLS CPR teachers, plus other who are aspiring to these roles or are already candidates for certification. We invite you to become one of our many, many Facebook Fans!

Services include state and island-wide referrals to classes, free monthly film-showings, hot-line phone number, website, Facebook page, and those offering birth products (birthing stool rentals, birthing pools, "Easy Birth", and placenta services) of interest to the public.

Everything we do is founded in the belief that birth is normal and couples have choices in birth and parenting. We believe that how people birth is their birth culture which hospitals and caregivers are bound by statutes to respect and support. Conversely, however, we are not here to define couples' ''birthing cultural beliefs" but to help them find their way to what their instincts already tell them and what is naturally is in their hearts.

For those finding it hard to find their inner wisdom we help guide participants to birthing knowledge which is free from fear. This enables them to develop confidence in their inner strengths they have never known they had. Thus their beliefs, hopes and dreams for childbirth can become realities.

Our educators support baby-led/infant-instinct breastfeeding holding firm that babies are born already instinctively knowing how to breastfeed.

Services and Member List:

1) Monthly free contemporary childbirth film showings, 1st Friday of each month, 6 p.m. 1276 Kailua Rd. Meet our members, panel discussion after film, + free raffle for Lamaze course and Infant Instinct Breastfeeding.

2) Happy, Healthy, Hapai: Dispelling the myths and discovering the truths of pregnancy and childbirth

Newly pregnant? Have lots of questions? Come to our free seminar on the Windward side to learn about labor, childbirth and beyond. Have some of your questions answered and find out the truth behind some of the most common myths about pregnancy and childbirth. This seminar will be tailored to your individual interests.

Possible topics include: Key questions to ask your medical provider How to know when labor is really starting What is a doula? Setting the scene for a productive labor

Breastfeeding information

Trips and tricks to help dilation and labor

Postpartum care - new mother and newborn

Experience this one of a kind free seminar, held at the following locations:

October 29^th, Saturday, 9:30-11am

Pali View Baptist Church

45-510 Halekou Road, Kaneohe, Hawaii 96744

November 19^th, Saturday 9:30-11am

Holman Hall, Kailua United Methodist Church 1110 Kailua Road, Kailua, HI 96734

December 17^th, Saturday, 9:30-11am

Conference room of the Forest City Community Center on Kaneohe Marine Corps Base Hawaii (for couples with base access only)

This seminar is a product of community outreach, sponsored and supported by Normal Birth Hawaii.

Event facilitators are Jessica Fujimoto, DONA trained doula and aspiring childbirth educator and Nicia Platt, aspiring childbirth educator.

For more details or questions and 2012 dates, please email reclaimingmotherhood@gmail.com or call 808-561-1383.

Current Service Members in Alphabetical Order:

Katie Barbieto, RN, LCCE, CLC, Lamaze Breastfeeding Support Specialist

Anja Berg, Aspiring Lamaze childbirth educator; 404-375-0741

Mathias Berg, parent member; webmaster.

Janis Bush, BA, ACCE, LCCE, FACCE/AlohaLamaze.com; Authentic Lamaze Classes, Infant CPR Instructor, Lamaze Breastfeeding Support Specialist, 808-263-2229/263-BABY: 7 week classes(6 Lamaze + Infant Instinct Breastfeeding). Kailua and KMCBH/ASYMCA

Jessica Fujimoto, Aspiring doula/Lamaze childbirth educator; Happy, Healthy Hapai monthly seminar (newly or advanced pregnant women and couples welcome)

Matt Fujimoto, parent member

Leah Harrison, Aspiring doula and Lamaze childbirth educator, 808-354-7085

Nicia Platt, Aspiring Lamaze childbirth educator, 780-1357; Happy, Healthy,Hapai monthly seminar (newly/advanced pregnant women/couples welcome); Fast-track classes for returning deployed spouses and their partners.

J. Katie Ryan, BA, MBA, aspiring doula and childbirth educator; Goodyear, AZ; Lamaze and Breastfeeding referrals. 623-261-2591

Hiilani Staken, aspiring doula and childbirth educator: 808-778-5439

Legend of credentials:

ACCE=ASPO Certified Childbirth Educator

AHA=American Heart Association

ASPO=American Society for Psychoprophylaxis in Obstetrics

BLS=Basic Life Saving

CAPPA=Childbirth And Post-partum Professionals Association

CD=Certified Doula

CLC=Certified Lactation Counselor

CPR=Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation

DEM=Direct Entry Midwife

DONA=Doulas of North America

FACCE=Fellow of the American College of Childbirth Educators

LCCE=Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator

LMT=Licensed Massage Therapist

MAH=Midwifery Alliance of Hawaii