GIFTS BEYOND THE PRESENT 2013 Gift Catalog Benefitting Mothers & Babies of Maison de Naissance - Home of Birth
If you could save a life, would you? Maison de Naissance is a maternal care center in rural Haiti dedicated to reducing maternal and infant mortality. We provide mothers with quality care, educated midwives, access to necessary treatment and a culturally supportive environment. At Maison de Naissance we have delivered thousands of healthy babies and prevented tragic maternal complications. When you donate to Maison de Naissance, you are supporting a positive future for Haitian women and children.
Give this season and make a difference in the lives of mothers & babies.
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Honor Cards
When you purchase a gift for Maison de Naissance’s mothers and babies, you will receive a free honor card that can be mailed to your friends and family. This card is a symbol of gratitude for your gift and an expression to others of your support for Maison de Naissance.
After you have placed your order, please fill out the contact information for the individual to whom you would like us to send your honor card(s).We will then send your honor card(s) to the contact information that you provided.
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LIFE
Jocelyne was pregnant. She knew that all pregnant women
feel tired, but she never felt as though she was getting enough sleep. Sometimes she felt feverish as well. Her sister encouraged her to visit Maison de Naissance, which was in the nearby village of Larnage and provided modern, expert pregnancy care. It took her another two weeks to get enough money to pay for a motorbike taxi, but she made it to Maison de Naissance and waited in the thatched roof courtyard for her appointment. To her surprise, the staff came out first thing in the morning and prayed with all of the waiting women, that their babies would be healthy and that God would guide the hands and minds of the midwives and their assistants. Shortly afterward, Jocelyne found herself inside, being weighed and having her blood pressure checked. As soon as she told the assistant midwife about her fatigue and fevers, she was sent to the laboratory. A test confirmed that she had malaria, and needed treatment right away. Jocelyne was
worried; her friend’s child had been stillborn after her friend had malaria during pregnancy. Jocelyne received medicine for the malaria, prenatal vitamins, iron to help build up healthy red blood cells, and an appointment to come back in a month. She kept looking around for where she should pay for her care, but the clerk at the front desk only smiled and told her there would be no charge. Jocelyne continued to come to Maison de Naissance - four visits in all. She labored naturally and her beautiful daughter was brought into the world at a healthy six pounds. Jocelyn’s story would be very different if not for YOUR gift of life. Your support of our prenatal care visits, medications and lab tests, brings life to our neighbors in rural Haiti. Many, many thanks!
Full Prenatal Care for a Healthy Delivery = $105 Malaria Treatment & Medication = $35 Prenatal Vitamins for One Woman = $10
CARE
The word care can mean many things. At Maison de Nais-
sance, it means that women receive counseling, education, medicines, lab tests, and loving attention every day, from expertly trained and dedicated members of our staff. It means that these elements of caring are provided without charge, and without discrimination, to all women who come to us. This is particularly important for women with HIV. In Haiti, there is a stigma attached to having a positive test for HIV, and it can be difficult for a woman to accept this news. The counseling that accompanies this testing sets the stage for our mothers to understand that there is hope. They can receive medications to help keep their virus under control and prevent their baby from becoming infected.
Collaboration with the PEPFAR program in Haiti helps provide medication and the staff necessary to expertly complete the record keeping that insures all of our patients are tested, all of the positive patients are treated, and all of the HIV positive mothers are given medicine in labor to keep their babies safe. It’s just one element of the care received at MN, but it’s a vital part of Berneice’s story. Berneice’s husband was HIV positive when they met and married, but he did not share this news with her. When she became pregnant right away, she was thrilled and went to Maison de Naissance for an early prenatal visit. She was devastated to learn that she tested positive for the virus, having had no other partners besides her husband. She felt very alonenever having known anyone who survived with HIV. After several visits to MN, she began connecting with the Mothers’ Club and met other women living with HIV and their healthy babies. Berneice was able to complete her course of daily medication, keep her nutrition up, pull herself out of depression, and deliver a healthy baby boy with the help of MN. Your donations kept our doors open and the lights on so that together we could save Berneice’s life, and the life of her son.
One Consultation = $15 Complete Series of Consultations for a Healthy Birth = $105
Market
The proceeds from our market items benefit Maison de Naissance and the mothers & babies we serve.
Hope Gives Life Tote Bag 100% cotton canvas bag, featuring a sun/ earth/water motif and the phrase Lespwa Fe Viv,” meaning “Hope Gives Life.” Front
Back
Baby Onesie Sizes Include: Infant 6-8 Months 12 Months
$15.00
$15.00
Singing Rooster Coffee
A. Full City / Medium Roast B. Vienna / Medium Dark C. French / Dark D. Decaffeinated
*All coffee that is sold is ground.
$10.00 Baby Bibs A. Blue B. Pink C. Green
$15.00 Baby Caps A. Blue B. Pink C. Green
$15.00 The Set - One Cap & One Bib Color options still apply
$25.00
ACCESS
Today, Madeleine took her baby boy home from the
hospital. Four days ago, she didn’t know if either of them would be alive by morning. Madeleine came to Maison de Naissance for a visit, because she felt sick. Her head hurt, her hands and feet were swollen, she was seeing spots, and she had pain by her rib cage. She had been warned by her midwife and her community health worker that these could be signs of preeclampsia, a severe disease which can cause seizures in the mother, bleeding from a torn placenta, and death of the baby. Though this was her first baby and she had been seen at MN only once, Madeleine knew her due date was a month off and she wasn’t sure it was time for her baby to come. She only knew how terrible she felt. As she rode the back of her neighbor’s motorbike along the bumpy dirt roads to MN, she became worried. She wasn’t feeling the baby move as much today, and her head was hurting worse. By the time she arrived at MN, her blood pressure was very high and she began bleeding. The assistant midwife who was seeing
her called for help, and an auxilliaire brought medication to keep Madeleine from having a seizure, while an IV was started. Grabbing a pack of supplies for a cesarean section, the auxilliare accompanied Madeleine in the MN ambulance to drive into Les Cayes to the General Hospital, where a cesarean section could be performed. Thanks to Madeleine recognizing the warning signs of preeclampsia, the quick work of the MN clinical staff, and the expert driving of the chauffeur, she made it to the hospital in time to save her son and herself. YOUR donation to keep our ambulance in excellent repair saved Madeleine’s life, and that of her son. We can’t thank you enough!
Take a Mother in an Ambulance to the Hospital = $50 Five C-Section Kits = $250
SKILL It takes a great team
of people to keep the wonderful care going at Maison de Naissance. Our nurse midwives have the greatest responsibility for providing prenatal care and consultations to the women who come through our door every day. Their title is “Infirmiere Sage Femme� which literally translates to Nurse Wise Woman. This reflects the years of training, both in the classroom, and in the exam and delivery rooms, which they undertake to complete their profession. Nurse midwives are ably assisted by assistant midwives. Maison de Naissance
was able to send four of our assistant nurses to a training program in Hinche, run by Midwives For Haiti, to attain an assistant midwife title. Their responsibilities include simple prenatal care, HIV counseling, and vaccinations. Out in the surrounding area, our community health workers (CHW) are checking blood pressure, distributing vitamins and anti-worm medication, and educating their village neighbors about the importance of prenatal care and skilled attendance at delivery. Our lab technicians work daily to provide routine prenatal labs and HIV/ syphilis testing to every patient! All of these clinical workers are supported by administrative, clerical, facilities management, driving and cleaning staff. We do thousands of clinical visits every month- and it takes the whole staff to do it. Your gift to pay salaries for our employees is the life blood of Maison de Naissance. We can’t do it without you, so THANK YOU!
Train an Assistant Midwife = $6,750 Send CHWs Out into the Community for One Day = $60 One Day Train the Trainer Class for CHWs = $40
Haiti Immersion Trip
With Global Birthing Home Foundation Experience the strength, beauty and resilience of Haiti and its people on a one week immersion trip with an experienced guide. Your eight day itinerary will take you through the capital city, Port-au-Prince, down to the southwestern peninsula and the town of Les Cayes, the base from which you will explore this lesser known but most beautiful region of Haiti. Your guide will take you to visit Maison de Naissance (MN), a maternity center founded by two Kansas City area physicians, and operated by GBHF. MN was praised by the Haitian minister of health as “The standard for maternal care in Haiti�, and since 2004 has had an ever increasing role in defining the maternal health care standards for this region. This is just the first of several success stories unfolding in Haiti that you will see, all of which are partnered with MN in an effort to bring quality health care and advanced educational opportunities to the local population.
Proje Espwa (Project Hope)
The Bishop Tharp Institute
Maison de Filles
Port Salut
Les Cayes Marketplace
If you could save a life, would you?
Give this season and make a difference in the lives of mothers & babies The proceeds generated from this catalog benefit mothers and babies in an impoverished community where they would otherwise not receive life saving maternal health care. Your gift impacts the quality, accessibility and education that we provide our women and children. Make a difference. Give.
Order Form
Gift(s) Requested
Name:________________________________________________ Phone #: _________________ E-mail: ______________________ Address: _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Please Make My Gift Anonymous I would like more information about the Immersion Trip to MN. Global Birthing Home Foundation is dedicated to using all donations effectively and appropriately to fulfill its missions and goals. The product descriptions in this catalog represent programs of Maison de Naissance. The Foundation reserves the right to direct gifts to the areas of greatest need.
Please mail order forms and information to: Global Birthing Home Foundation 5000 West 134th Street Leawood, KS 66209
Honor Card Form I would like an honor card sent to my address. I would like to send an honor card to another address. Name of Recipient:____________________________________ E-mail: _______________________________________________ Address: _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Name of Recipient:____________________________________ E-mail: _______________________________________________ Address: _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________
Price LIFE Full Prenatal Care for a Healthy Delivery Malaria Treatment & Medication Prenatal Vitamins for One Woman CARE One Consultation Complete Series of Consultations for a Healthy Birth ACCESS Take a Mother in an Ambulance to the Hospital Five C-Section Kits SKILL Train an Assistant Midwife Send CHWs Out into the Community for One Day One Day Train the Trainer Class for CHWs MARKET Roast/Color Tote Bag Baby Onesie Singing Rooster Coffee Baby Bibs Baby Cap The Set - One Cap & One Bib
Qty
$105 $35 $10 $15 $105 $50 $250 $6,750 $60 $40 $15 $15 $10 $15 $15 $25 TOTAL
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