Para la Madre
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The Para la Madre brochure was born out of a desire to serve migrant women and women in transition during their childbearing year.
It is a simple brochure, with places for her midwife/doctor/etc. to write notes about her prenatal care, including labs, due date and what that date is based on, vitals, details of mama and fetus, etc. She carries this brochure in her purse with her. That way, if she leaves, even quickly, she has access to her medical information.
Why is this important? Imagine a woman, say a migrant farmworker, who has had several or many prenatal visits with her midwife. Then she quickly leaves to follow the harvest, but does not have access to a fax, etc., to obtain her medical records. Perhaps she arrives in a new town in labor and goes to the Emergency Department, but they know nothing about her: they don't know her blood type, if she had prenatal care, how the baby has been growing, etc. With that, she is at high risk for being treated poorly, a much higher risk of Cesarean delivery, etc.
The Para la Madre brochure is simple, it is my way of helping her be the keeper of her own medical information, wherever she might be, toward gentler care of migrant women and babies, toward humanized birth.
The Lynden Tribune wrote a nice article about this. Follow this link to read it:
https://www.lyndentribune.com/news/moonbelly-offering-special-brochure-para-la-madre/article_6b0f1fd8-42bb-11e8-9b48-e3d14807342d.html
It is a simple brochure, with places for her midwife/doctor/etc. to write notes about her prenatal care, including labs, due date and what that date is based on, vitals, details of mama and fetus, etc. She carries this brochure in her purse with her. That way, if she leaves, even quickly, she has access to her medical information.
Why is this important? Imagine a woman, say a migrant farmworker, who has had several or many prenatal visits with her midwife. Then she quickly leaves to follow the harvest, but does not have access to a fax, etc., to obtain her medical records. Perhaps she arrives in a new town in labor and goes to the Emergency Department, but they know nothing about her: they don't know her blood type, if she had prenatal care, how the baby has been growing, etc. With that, she is at high risk for being treated poorly, a much higher risk of Cesarean delivery, etc.
The Para la Madre brochure is simple, it is my way of helping her be the keeper of her own medical information, wherever she might be, toward gentler care of migrant women and babies, toward humanized birth.
The Lynden Tribune wrote a nice article about this. Follow this link to read it:
https://www.lyndentribune.com/news/moonbelly-offering-special-brochure-para-la-madre/article_6b0f1fd8-42bb-11e8-9b48-e3d14807342d.html
