HYDERABAD, India, November 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
Three of the World's Best Known Advocates and Practitioners of Scientific Midwifery and Holistic Best Practices in Maternal and Fetal Care Join the Advisory Board
Healthy Mother Wellness & Care (a.k.a Healthy Mother), India's most valued provider of holistic maternity and newborn care based on the Scientific Midwifery Model of Care, today announced the formation of its Advisory Board to guide the company into its next phase of growth. As part of this announcement, Healthy Mother welcomes into its Advisory Board, three world renowned experts and advocates of holistic best practices in maternal, fetal and newborn care - Dianne Garland, Robbie Davis-Floyd and Debra Pascali-Bonero, who will provide valuable guidance and mentorship to senior management in implementation of its strategic vision and its goal of positively impacting the lives of expecting mothers, new mothers and babies.
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"As we continue to make life-changing positive impact in pregnancy and childbirth for more and more mothers in India and their families, we believe the formation of the advisory board will help Healthy Mother align itself to proven and established best practices in Scientific Midwifery around the world," said Dr. Vijaya Krishnan, Co-founder and Director of Healthy Mother Wellness & Care. Dr. Vijaya Krishnan added, "Dianne Garland, Robbie Davis-Floyd and Debra Pascali-Bonero are just about the best practitioners and experts and who command worldwide respect for their ground breaking work in introducing and advocating best practices in maternal and perinatal care. We are honored to have this distinguished group of women in our Advisory Board and to have the benefit of their individual and collective wisdom to guide us in our next phase of growth."
Healthy Mother Advisory Board Members include:
Dianne Garland SRN RM ADM PGCEA MSc
Dianne has been a midwife since 1983 and teaching about waterbirth since 1989. Her work has taken her all over the world, from Australia, China, United States and India. She has written numerous articles with a new version of her book "Revisiting waterbirth - an attitude to care" published Palgrave Dec.2010. Dianne works as an expert witness, University lecturer and maintains her clinical skills on a midwife led and consultant unit at a local hospital. She is Director for Clinical Governance at Waterbirth International and Waterbirth consultant to Wenzhou Oriental maternity unit China.
In 2005, Dianne became a freelance midwifery expert to expand these roles within her company http://www.midwifeexpert.co.uk.
Since this time, Dianne has continued to work around the world and develop new roles and interests as:
- 2010 A trustee to APEC.(Action on PreEclampsia)
- 2012 Appointed professional advisor to CQC
- 2013 Gentle birth guardian trainer.
Dr. Robbie Davis-Floyd, PhD
Robbie Davis-Floyd PhD, Senior Research Fellow, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Texas Austin and Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology, is a world-renowned medical anthropologist, international speaker and researcher in transformational models in childbirth, midwifery and obstetrics. She is author of over 80 articles and of Birth as an American Rite of Passage (1992, 2004), co-author of From Doctor to Healer: The Transformative Journey (1998) and The Power of Ritual (forthcoming), and lead editor of 10 collections, the latest of which is Birth Models That Work (2009), which highlights optimal models of birth care around the world. Volume II: Birth on the Global Edge, coedited with Betty-Anne Daviss, is in process.
Dr. Davis-Floyd's current research project studies the paradigm shifts of holistic obstetricians in Brazil. Robbie serves as Editor for the International MotherBaby Childbirth Initiative (IMBCI): 10 Steps to Optimal Maternity Care (http://www.imbci.org), Board Member of the International MotherBaby Childbirth Organization (IMBCO), and Senior Advisor to the Council on Anthropology and Reproduction.
Debra Pascali-Bonero
Debra Pascali Bonaro is a world-renowned advocate and teacher of gentle birth practices. She has trained thousands of doulas and birth professionals around the world in practices of gentle birth support to mothers and babies. Debra is the Chairperson of the International MotherBaby Childbirth Organization (IMBCO), a member of the White Ribbon Alliance, Lamaze International, former PR Chair of DONA International and co-author of the best-selling book, 'Orgasmic Birth - Your Guide to a Safe, Satisfying and Pleasurable Birth'.
Debra's commitment and passion for advocating Mother-Baby friendly birth practices has been acknowledged in the form of speaking invitations, featured interviews and guest articles in the media, including ABC's 20/20, The NBC Today Show, Discovery Health, The New York Times, The LA Times, The UK Times as well as numerous parenting and health magazines around the world.
About Healthy Mother
Founded in 2008, Healthy Mother is the pioneer in bringing Scientific Midwifery Model of Care in India. We operate the Healthy Mother Sanctum™, India's largest Natural Birth Center, where mothers receive holistic, individualized, unlimited and empathetic care and freedom to labor on their own terms without having to submit to hospital or doctor pressures to undergo unnecessary interventions like C-sections. The unique feature of The Sanctum™ is that the birth center is equipped with onsite emergency backup infrastructure and staff (like surgeons, anesthetists, etc) should the need arise, giving mothers the best of all worlds. Led by US certified independent midwives, we are experts in normal birth and provide holistic, trusted care to mothers during their pregnancy, labor, childbirth, and post partum.
We are the largest provider of Lamaze Prenatal Childbirth classes to expecting mothers and dads, with centers in Hyderabad, Bangalore, Ahmedabad and Pune. Our normal delivery rates are 85%, which is the highest in urban India. We have helped numerous mothers with a previous C-section have normal delivery when they were deprived of that choice in conventional hospitals. Our expertise includes water births, helping high risk mothers (such as those with gestational diabetes, hypertension) try for normal delivery and twin normal delivery. Healthy Mother has been recognized as being one of only nine birth centers across the world to follow mother-baby friendly birth practices by the International MotherBaby Childbirth Initiative (IMBCI). We are passionate advocates of exclusive breastfeeding of newborns and infants at least till 6 months of age. To promote this important activity, we run the Healthy Mother Breastfeeding Support Network, a group in Facebook, where new moms and expecting moms can ask questions, discuss experiences and be advised by Healthy Mother experts and other expert moms who have been through similar situations.
Among other services, we offer are preconception counseling, prenatal checkups, pre and postnatal yoga, prenatal massage and pregnancy spa, postnatal exercise and weight loss programs, breastfeeding support, "WellMom" branded wellness programs for mother and newborns, and Well Woman Care.
Website - http://healthy-mother.com
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/healthymother
Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/healthymother
Healthy Mother Mom to Mom Support Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/HealthyMother.Breastfeeding.Support.Network/
Primary Media Contact: Krishnan Sakotai, [email protected], 91-78-93068666, 91-40-23701666
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