6 Questions to Better Bed Rest for High Risk Pregnant Mamas

If you have follow my blog, look at my website or
follow me on twitter, then you know that a large focus of what I do
via Mamas on Bedrest & Beyond is advocacy
for high risk pregnant women. When I was pregnant with my children,
there were few if any resources available for high risk pregnant women,
especially for those women who may be on bed rest at home. I started Mamas
on Bedrest & Beyond to change that. What has started
out as a way to provide support and resources locally to high risk
pregnant women, is now becoming a national initiative.

The Coalition for Improving Maternity Services along with Childbirth Connection and other child birth advocacy groups are working diligently to improve maternity services for all women. Currently their focus is on advocating for mother-friendly childbirth in uncomplicated pregnancies and for in increase in the implementation of the midwifery model of maternity care. However, they are dedicated to advocating for ALL women, and would love to hear the needs and concerns of high risk pregnant women.

Mamas, we are on the crest of change but the advocating leaders need our help. Please go to http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TXCPLD7 and complete the simple 6 question survey by April 30, 2010. I will
share your responses with those advocating to improve maternity
services and make your needs known. Act now. We can have our concerns
addressed but not if we don’t take the time to make these needs known.

Please share this blog post with any high risk pregnant woman, especially a mama on bed rest, that you know. Tell them to go to http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TXCPLD7 and fill out the survey. We can make bed rest better, but only if we
lift our voices and make our needs and concerns know.

Thank you!

Darline Turner-Lee, Owner and Founder of Mamas on Bedrest & Beyond

www.mamasonbedrest.com