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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Dear OS-Listers<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Since early 2007 I have been holding space for the
Swiss Midwifes Association, first on a regional scale, and this year in
January, it was a national OS event. Over time, they have realized that they
need to start PR work in order to “stay in business” (if assisting
natural births can be called a business…). Cesarians have grown to over
30 percent in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Switzerland</st1:place></st1:country-region>
because they seem to be “more convenient” (and nobody tells you
about their negative consequences if you don’t ask persistently…),
and young people don’t know anymore what a midwife is and can do for them.
And since 2007, they have also become a lot more confident that they really have
an important message for the public.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>This past May 5<sup>th</sup> was International Midwife
Day, for which the Swiss midwifes planned lots of PR activities in the 2009 OS
event, based on the new slogan (found in the 2008 OS event): “It is important
how we are born”. They ended up with more than 100 published articles
from short to several pages, 5 different TV emissions and several radio
emissions, not to speak of several activities in hospitals and public squares.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Ok, we did some serious work together to prepare for
this, and all of it in their very own “midwife way” of working
together, discussing, being, letting things grow and ripen. I am so proud of
what they have achieved – and so are they! The responsible person just
wrote “We have topped our goal.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Gratefully, C.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:
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