Orgasmic Birth Screening/MAP Meeting

Reminder for our Big Day, Saturday, Jan. 17th!!!!!!!!

“Orgasmic Birth” will be shown at 12 noon at the State Theatre, in State College.
There will be tables and displays before this so come early to visit and check out the MAP table.
After the movie, there will be a panel discussion, with a number of MAPpers and more!

Directions and all other info on their site:

http://www.thestatetheatre.org/

Immediately following the panel, at @ 3 pm, we will walk five or so doors down the street and go upstairs to the Allen Street Grill.

All are welcome, but only MAP members can vote.

You can join MAP that day!

http://www.allenstreetgrill.com/

We will meet in the State Room and will eat off the regular menu.

We will have a MAP meeting, with the following items on our agenda:

• Discussion and voting on The Proposed Regulations for CPMs in PA*****
• Selecting The Five Names of Midwives willing to serve as advisors to the Board of Medicine
• Communicating with the Plain Midwives
• Communication with PA. Families for Safe Birth and other consumer groups.
• And, More! I am sure!

***About the Regs…yes you have all been waiting patiently to see them…and we will have them to you ASAP. Because your team of specialists are mostly midwives…births happen. They are working like crazy to get them to us soon.

In the meantime, we have gotten word from the powers that be that we can slow the process down. Hooray!

That means that we can take Saturday’s meeting to really discuss these regs, and give a yeah or nay to your board to go forward using them as the template from which to negotiate. Please please please check your emails in the next two days…we will send them as soon as we can, and there will be copies available all day at the screening and at our meeting so please find me or Lisa at the MAP table if you want a paper set of them to read.

Also, as Christy has said over and over, please read the 1929 statute and read about the regulatory process in PA. and be familiar with all of this before the meeting. We are trying very hard to address everyone’s questions and concerns, but please remember that this is a process and that there is a lot that we are all learning!

In order for your voice to be heard, you need to speak up! Join MAP and have a vote! Be there Saturday! This is a huge day for us all…we hope you can be part of it!

Krystn Madrine
for your MAP Board