Another Sneak Peek of I Am A Midwife: Every Woman Deserves a Midwife!
Spring is here, the flowers are blooming and so is I am a Midwife, MANA's exciting new public education campaign. I am a Midwife is an online video series all about midwives and what they do! Our official launch date is just around the corner, on May 5, when we will start releasing the theme-based videos.
We've just released another preview for the I am a Midwife campaign called "Every Woman Deserves a Midwife!" to build more interest and momentum around this new series. This latest promo features thirteen diverse midwives, practicing in all settings throughout the U.S.
Please help us build and continue to grow our I am a Midwife campaign and the MANA online community by sharing the video, subscribing to the IAAM Youtube channel, and "Liking" the IAAM Facebook and MANA pages.
Thank you so much for your support of I am a Midwife! We are so excited for (more of) the world to know about the safe, supportive and satisfying care midwives provide for all kinds of women and their families--and in all settings.
Happy Spring!
Geradine Simkins, MANA President and Interim Executive Director
Nicolle Littrell, Filmmaker, Woman in the Moon Films
I Am A Midwife
Using Social Media to Create Social Change
We are excited to announce our first promotional piece for I am a Midwife, our new public education campaign that will showcase the profession of midwifery and the midwives model of care by profiling individual midwives across the country.
As you may recall, in November 2011 we were in production on this terrific new project at the "Beyond Boundaries " conference in Niagara Falls; 41 of you participated by being filmed for I am a Midwife! It has been so much fun to create this first piece! All 41 participants are featured! We are very proud of the fruits of our labor and feel we're off to a really strong start.
Our official launch for I am a Midwife will be May 5, International Midwives Day. We are hoping to create some early "buzz" and begin to establish a vibrant web presence. The campaign will be disseminated and promoted through social media networks. We need your help! Will you please share, post, and embed the link to the promo piece on your own webpages, your business pages, and other groups/organizations you belong to? Here's the link to the video on YouTube:
One of the key goals of I am a Midwife is to use social networks to create social change . By telling our stories authentically and fearlessly and by listening to one another with open hearts and minds, we can make the world a better place. For midwives, sharing is daring: daring to challenge the status quo; daring to speak up for women's innate knowing and power; daring to assert that there is a better way for our babies to be born; and daring to insist that birth belongs to families. We need your daring for this project--please share it everywhere you can.
Over the next few months, we will be producing a series of short, theme-based pieces crafted from the interviews. We will also make the full-length interviews of midwives available to our audience. Stay tuned for more I am a Midwife campaign information. And thank you for your support of I am a Midwife and for the ongoing inspiration your work as midwives provides for this project.
Blessings,
Geradine Simkins, MANA President and Interim Executive Director
Nicolle Littrell, Filmmaker, Woman in the Moon Films
about midwives and what they do! Our official launch date is just around the corner, on May 5, when we will start releasing the theme-based videos. 
campaign and the MANA online community by sharing the video, subscribing to the IAAM Youtube channel, and "Liking" the IAAM Facebook and MANA pages.
