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In This Issue
About Babies
Extended Breastfeeding - Handling
the Criticism
Our Charis Family
Jennifer Goodwin
Charis Cuisine
Delicious Garlicky Split Pea Soup
with Freshly Ground
Pepper
Charis Around the World
Tidbits From Ebony
Childbirth in Kenya
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Mark Your Calendars
Charis “Teaching Birth”
Workshop
Saturday, April 13, 2013
9 a.m. – 6 p.m.
At
LifeSong Midwifery
in North Port, Florida
For childbirth
educators, doulas, midwives, or anyone who would like to improve their ability
to communicate with and educate expectant families.
At our workshops, learning is interactive, hands-on, fun, and interesting.
All Charis workshops are taught from a Christian perspective, giving God the
glory for His marvelous creation and how He so wonderfully created women to bear
children.
You will spend the day making new friends and becoming more skilled in preparing
effective introductions, asking powerful questions, creating a learner-friendly
environment, capturing the attention of learners, helping clients embrace their
responsibility of making informed decisions, and so much more.
In addition to the valuable skills acquired at the workshop, you will also take
home with you an assortment of visual aids and other valuable teaching tools to
enhance your future students’ learning experience.
A delicious lunch will be provided for all the workshop attendees to enjoy as
you get to know each other better during a midday break.
The cost is $225 for Charis members and $255 for non-members (includes one-year Charis membership).
To register, complete the
Registration
Form
and mail it, along with payment, to:
Charis Childbirth
P.O. Box 6900
North Port, FL 34290
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Childbirth Preparation Classes
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Presented by: Birth InSight
Christi Jones (CCE, CD) and Aimee Roberts (CCE, CD)
Seven Week Series
February 28 - April 11
April 25 - June 13
Thursday evenings 7:00 - 9:00
(cost $250 per couple)
Weekend Series
May 17 & 18 (6:30-9:30) and (9:00-3:30)
(cost $250 per couple)
VBAC workshop
February 20th 7:00 - 9:00 pm
(cost $35.00)
For more information and to
register visit our
website
or call 757-270-0437
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New Holland Birth Classes
ELANCO Library, New Holland, PA
Is Birthing Outside of the Hospital Safe?
speaker:
Wendy Shiffer, CD, LCCE, CHBI, DFB
Presented by
Mary Ann Stoltzfus,
(CCE, CD)
and Karen Yoder
(CCE, CD student)
March 14, 2013 at 6:30 p.m.
Please join us for a FREE community event where we will discuss the safety of
birth outside the hospital. Meet the doulas and have refreshments
too! Everyone welcome! (And you don't need to be pregnant!)
Email Karen Yoder for more information:
imhisdaughter@gmail.com
Attention Aspiring
Midwives!
You will love the flexible, thorough,
distance academics course offered through Charis Childbirth!
Check it out!
Want to serve childbearing families as a Certified Doula or Childbirth
Educator?
Become trained and certified through Charis Childbirth!
Take a look
at our unique certification process!
If you seek a school that offers the convenience of self-paced distance
learning, personal mentors for each student, a commitment to the highest
excellence in education, a family-like network of students and birth
professionals, and education from a Christian perspective, Charis may be just
the right fit for you!
For more information
Visit the
Charis Web site
for course description and outline.
Our
Director's Heart
Kristin Schuchmann and Jannekah Guya in March, 2012, when the Guya family traveled
to Florida and spent time with the Schuchmanns.
Heading to Africa!
I had the opportunity to meet many people from a variety of African
countries when I lived in Virginia Beach. Most of them were there as
students at Regent University. In getting to know my friends, I was
impressed with their passion for Jesus and depth of faith. Their
stories about their home, some amazingly wonderful and some incredibly sad,
fueled a desire in me to visit their continent. My love for Africa and
her people has continued to grow over the years and I am finally realizing a
dream that has been on the back burner for decades. I AM GOING TO
AFRICA!!!
Jannekah, the Charis midwifery student in Kenya, is
due to give birth to her third baby in March, and she has invited me to come
attend her birth as midwife. Since we don’t know exactly the day her
baby will make his or her appearance, I will be in Kenya for the entire
month of March. So many details about my time there are dependent upon
when baby arrives, but my hope is to have the opportunity to get together
with the other midwives/TBA’s for a time of sharing our “tricks of the
trade”. I hope to be able to share with them some of my midwifery
skills, and, in turn, learn from them as well.
Please pray for safe travel, for my midwifery supplies to make it all the
way to Kenya on the airplane without being lost or stolen, and for my
complete recollection of the little bit of Swahili I am attempting to learn.
And, more importantly than that, for Jannekah’s baby to be born after I
arrive, completely healthy and happy. My desire is for Jannekah’s
birthing day to be full of God’s peace and presence as the newest member of
the Guya family enters the world.
You can expect a full report on my African adventures in April.
Blessings,
Kristin Schuchmann, CPM, LM
Executive Director, Charis Childbirth, Inc.
Contact Us
Charis Childbirth
P.O. Box 6900
North Port, FL 34290
www.charischildbirth.org
Kristin Schuchmann ~
Executive Director
Cell (941)441-6410
http://happyhealthyliving.wordpress.com/
Susan Oshel ~ Director of Midwifery Studies
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Update
Charis Membership
We at Charis are extremely grateful for our wonderful members. This past
year, your dues have made it financially possible for us to creatively
correspond with people in areas of the world where internet is spotty at best.
Having all forms of communication available for us is essential if we are going
to successfully train birth professionals in the far reaches of the earth.
As our community of members grows, there will be more funds available for even
more world-impacting outreach. Thank you!
Membership is due every December 31 for the coming calendar year. So, if
you became a member on or before December 31, 2011, your dues should be mailed
by the middle of December, 2012, to be sure it is received in time. If you
became a member sometime in 2012, then your membership is not due until December
31, 2013.
You can send your
membership form and $30 dues to:
Charis Childbirth
P.O. Box 6900
North Port, FL 34290
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