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ISSN 1320-3916 Summer 2010/11 Issue 108 $7.00 A HOMEBIRTH ACCESS SYDNEY QUARTERLY PUBLICATION www.homebirthsydney.org.au Plus all our regular features, birth notices, letters, your stories and pictures & updates on our community activities Birthings_108_p01_Cover.indd 1 07/12/2010 02:27 CONTRIBUTING TO BIRTHINGS Summer 2010/11 Issue 108 Summer 2010/11 – Issue 108 The strength of Birthings is all the thoughtprovoking, inspiring and challenging HOMEBIRTH ACCESS SYDNEY COMMITTEE* writing from members of our community. To ensure that the magazine is balanced, & OFFICE BEARERS responsive to our audience’s interests and needs, and refl ects the priorities of HAS Coordinator* Jo Tilly HAS, we have developed a set of contribution guidelines. We also work with an 02 9519 8524 | [email protected] editorial board, selected by the HAS executive, to refl ect the range of people in our community. The founding board members are Maggie Lecky-Thompson, Assistant Coordinator Vacant Adrienne Abulhawa, Jo Hunter, Sarah McLean and the current editor, Virginia Treasurer* & Secretary Greta Werner Maddock. The role of the editorial board is outlined in the guidelines below. 0402 035 069 [email protected] CONTRIBUTION GUIDELINES Birth Places & Spaces Birthings Editor* Virginia Maddock 02 95010863 | [email protected] Here are some guidelines for how to write your story, and what happens once you have submitted it for our consideration. Birthings Sub Editor Amanda Vella Birthings Line Editors Jaia Shanti Baer & Sandy Bucknell WHAT TO SUBMIT Submissions are sought on the theme of the issue as stated REGULARS on the back cover of the previous issue. Your response to the theme may be in Birthings Design Type & Numbers a range of formats: poetry, opinion, artistic, personal or factual. VIRGINIA MADDOCK www.typeandnumbers.com Editorial 5 We also welcome birth stories from members. Your birth story is a special part Editor Heart to Heart Page Amelia Allan of your family’s journey and the story of homebirth in Sydney. It is also a great Letters 5 [email protected] FEATURES gift to share with other parents, especially those preparing for the birth of their Website Jenny Carleton own babies. Birth Announcements 6 Birth Spaces SONIA MACGREGOR 13 0412 970 183 | [email protected] Other submissions apart from those outlined above are also very welcome, LEANNE CLARKE Events Vacant though we may not always be able to publish them, as we often receive more Committee Member Profile 9 How Birth Place Affects Labour 14 Advertising* Jenny Carleton submissions than we have space to print. We will get back to you as soon as DR SARAH J BUCKLEY 0412 970 183 | [email protected] possible with a response and discuss the possibilities. If you have an idea for Heart to Heart 9 a submission that you would like to discuss before writing fully, please feel free Memberships Virgina Maddock Coordinator’s Report JO TILLY 10 Birthing River In Our Home RACHEL NIXON 16 0415 683 074 | [email protected] to send us an email with an outline. We love a good idea! Merchandising* Sarah McLean STYLE Your submission should be written in your own style. You do not need to Secretary’s Report GRETA WERNER 11 Moonlit Magic JACIE WHITFIELD 18 0423 346 690 | [email protected] be a professional writer or have a poetic style to give a moving and interesting account of your own experience. Media Watch Sarah McLean Cartoon HEATHER CUSHMAN DOWDEE 26 Inner Space & Birth Place 20 Mail Offi cer Akal Khalsa Your submitted writing should be all your own work – you must not borrow ANNA JOHNSTON-BUCKLE or copy words written by someone else, unless they are attributed quotes of Reviews VIRGINIA MADDOCK 28 Volunteer Coordinator Aurelie Giles a reasonable length. [email protected] Creating a Sacred Birth Space 22 LENGTH Please write your story in the amount of words you think you need. HAS Merchandise 30 Calendar Sandy Bucknell ELIZABETH CRINER As a guideline, most birth stories work best when they are under 1200 words. [email protected] HAS Info Library 43 Submissions on the theme should be under 1700 words. AMANDA VELLA Librarian Erika Elliott [email protected] Creating Space For India 24 We may edit for length and style and so may cut your story to ensure it is Media Watch SARAH MCLEAN 42 Fundraising & Sponsorship Coordinator Leanne Clarke appropriate for use in BIRTHINGS. [email protected] EDITING Your story will be checked by our team of editors. The intention is to Services 44 Distribution Coordinator Jack Malloch retain your voice, while ensuring that grammar, spelling and other style issues BIRTH STORIES General Information [email protected] are correct and of a high quality. Your story may also be cut for length (see above). Calendar 50 Imarli’s Birth MARTINA KREZNOVIC 32 *Offi ces marked with an asterisk are listed as offi cial committee members Your story may not defame any person. If the editorial team is concerned that in compliance with the responsibilities of running an incorporated an issue of defamation may exist, we may decline to publish your work or require Aminah’s Birth MAHA AL MUSA 34 association under the Associations Incorporation Act 1984. the defamatory material to be removed prior to publication. If any major editing is recommended by our editors, we will contact you for Harper’s Birth CHELLE LUKE 36 HONOURY LIFE & HONOURY LIFE permission and return a copy of the edited material for your approval. If our FOUNDING MEMBERS MEMBERS standard editing procedure is applied, we will not send it for your approval. Delphi’s Birth ELIZABETH CRINER 38 Maggie Lecky–Thompson Robyn Dempsey PICTURES We encourage you to submit some high-resolution digital images ESTHER BAILEY Elaine Odgers Norling Jo Hunter with your story, especially with birth stories. We will include as many as we Imogen’s Birth 38 can to illustrate your story. The views expressed in this magazine are those of the TERMS OF USE Please note that by submitting your story to Birthings you named contributors only and are not necessarily shared by warrant that the content is not confidential and that you have the right to Homebirth Access Sydney, its Committee or the Editors or offer it for publication. You also agree that you grant Birthings the copyright Editorial Board of Birthings. permission for the purposes of publication in this magazine and on the Homebirth Access Sydney website. Front cover photo of CONTRIBUTIONS, PHOTOS, CORRESPONDENCE Elizabeth Criner and Delphi Please send to Virginia Maddock at editor@homebirthsydney. EDITORIAL BOARD All stories will be put before the editorial board before org.au Photos and written submissions must be emailed. publication. The board’s duties include: Prior notice to the Editors of your intention to submit work • Reviewing copy to ensure it refl ects the priorities of HAS and the interests and is not necessary, but can be helpful in planning content. needs of it’s members and the community, DEADLINES FOR SUBMISSIONS • Supporting the editors to make editorial decisions, Autumn 2011 No 109 1 February 2011 • Providing a guide for the future direction of the magazine. Winter 2011 No 110 1 May 2011 PROCEDURES Please provide your story as a Microsoft Word or equivalent Spring 2011 No 111 1 September 2011 document attached to an email and sent to Virginia Maddock at: Summer 2011 No 112 1 December 2011 [email protected] BACK ISSUES Back issues of Birthings are like hen’s teeth! You will be notifi ed immediately of receipt and With thanks to our postage sponsors Back cover image used But we will try to accommodate requests. Back issues cost contacted before publication. There is often with permission from: $4.00 – $7.00 per issue. Postage is $3.00 per single copy. more material than we can publish submitted A price for multiple copies can be arranged. The magazine for each issue of Birthings. If your story cannot birthwithoutfearblog.com is very valuable in that it contains many birth stories be published due to space limitations we will and information, plus give an insight into the homebirth contact you. In some cases we will ask your movement and HAS activities. permission to hold a story over for a future issue. CHANGE OF ADDRESS Please notify any change of address Thank you so much for considering a contri- to HAS, PO Box 66, Broadway, NSW 2007 or by email to the bution to Birthings. Your experiences and Memberships Coordinator at: insights are what makes the magazine so rich [email protected] and interesting, and such a valuable resource www.homebirthsydney.org.au for the homebirth community. 02 | BIRTHINGS Magazine 108 BIRTHINGS Magazine 108 | 03 Birthings_108_p02_Info.indd 2 06/12/2010 12:02 Birthings_108_p03_Contents.indd 3 07/12/2010 12:48 Elizabeth Criner is the founder of “Discover your True Beauty” Membership workshops and retreats. She practiced Nutrition and Energetic Bodywork Homebirth Access Sydney is the only group of its kind in Sydney. in Sydney for the last 10 years and recently moved to the country to It fills an extremely important function in providing a centrally start a family. She is passionate about assisting women though their Editorial personal journeys and is currently completing her Shamanic Midwifery organised group of caring people, gathering information and making it Welcome to our Summer edition of Birthings: ‘Birth Places Sometimes our best laid plans go out the window on the day, but Training with Jane Collings. She lives in the Seal Rocks area with her available to everyone who is interested in childbirth alternatives and the & Spaces’. I would like to extend a warm welcome to our new designer wherever we birth our babies, that place usually holds a special partner David and has recently hatched into motherhood.