Bangalore Birth Network - Child Birth Education / Counseling to poor women in India

Jan 01, 2017
Mrs. Asha Kilaru (Placeholder for the future)
Bangalore Birth Network - Child Birth Education / Counseling to poor women in India
Asha Kilaru is the co-founder of Bangalore Birth Network (http://bangalorebirth.org/).  She will be speaking at our club meeting about the work they are doing and the 2 year study our club is funding through a District Grant to document the positive outcomes from providing education and counseling to 700 to 1000 women per year during the child birth process.
 
About BBN
The BBN is a forum for exchange, for people from all walks of life, who share a common interest in pregnancy and birth as a normal life process. We are a non-hierarchical network, making joint decisions and sharing responsibilities for tasks. Participation in the network is open to all regardless of caste, creed, color, birth language, sexual orientation, culture, race or religion. Currently the administrators for the network are: Asha Kilaru, Nora Kropp, Anahita Bhatia, Celestina Cavinder and Chetana Kulkarni.
The BBN supports
  • Allowing women’s chosen support people, including fathers/partners and doulas, in labour wards and delivery rooms
  • Ending non-evidence-based, routine procedures such as routine episiotomies, pubic shaving and enemas
  • Reduction of Cesarean rates to those recommended by the WHO (10-15%)
  • Public right to access of maternity unit statistical data and individual records
Team
  • The Bangalore Birth Network is run by a group of volunteers who have more than 30 years of collective experience in safe, supported, evidence based, mother and baby friendly care.
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