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"Zero Cinque" is an Italian Association whose mission is the support of motherhood and early childhood.
The "Ospedale Regionale di Mendrisio Beata Vergine" is a multi-specialty public hospital in Switzerland.
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If you would like to learn more about how the OBV in Mendrisio handles childbirth, this is your chance. Come to the Sala Azalee, JRC ClubHouse Ispra
and talk to Dr. Giorgio Caccia, Head of the department of gynaecology and Dr. Mariarosa Vecchiato, early childhood psychologist of the association "Zero Cinque". After a short introduction there will be a Q and A session.
"Zero Cinque" is an Italian Association whose mission is the support of motherhood and early childhood.
The "Ospedale Regionale di Mendrisio Beata Vergine" is a multi-specialty public hospital in Switzerland.
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In occasione della Settimana Mondiale per l’Allattamento Materno 2009, Il Melograno Centro Informazione Maternità e Nascita di Gallarate ha il piacere di ospitare Ibu Robin Lim, “l’ostetrica dai piedi scalzi”.
Ibu Robin ha sette figli, vive a Bali, da molti anni lavora come ostetrica unendo i saperi femminili tradizionali a quelli acquisiti dal suo ampio curriculum scolastico e professionale.
Nel 1994 ha fondato l’associazione no profit Yayasan Bumi Sehat con la quale ha costruito una clinica-consultorio non lontano dalla città di Ubud a Bali.
A seguito dello tsunami del 2004 si è recata sull’isola di Sumatra dove ha iniziato una straordinaria opera ostetrica di emergenza.
E’ autrice di numerosi libri dedicati al parto e alla maternità, ma soprattutto è la prima ostetrica al mondo ad aver ricevuto un premio internazionale per la pace, Alexander Langer 2006.
“Crediamo che un inizio della vita sano e dolce sia il fondamento di una vita d’incanto.
La pace nel mondo può venir costruita cominciando oggi, un bambino per volta”.
L’incontro dal titolo: “Latte di mamma, linfa vitale”, che si terrà giovedì 15 ottobre dalle ore 15.30 presso la sede in Via G. Giusti, 10 a Gallarate, è aperto alle mamme e a chiunque abbia desiderio di approfondire il tema dell’allattamento.
Ingresso libero, prenotazione obbligatoria.
(from the Alexander Langer Stiftung)
IBU ROBIN LIM, 49, lives in Bali with her husband, her seven daughters and sons, and one niece. She has a diverse genealogy, which mixes American, Indonesian, Chinese, Philippine, German and Irish elements.
The complexity of her origins may be noticed not only in her personality, but also in the diverse nature of her work. She is an environmentalist, a pacifist, a poet. Above all, she is a midwife. Robin has been working for many years relying on both scientific and women’s traditional knowledge. She has a wide professional curriculum and is the author of books about birthing and motherhood.
The aims of her work are many and difficult. Ibu Robin strives to prevent the expropriation of women’s traditional knowledge by official medicine, a process which started in Europe at the end of the 19th Century and is still ongoing, in Indonesia as well. Her efforts are directed at granting caring, competent support to birthing mothers and a non-violent birth to their children. Robin endeavours to bring such practices wherever possible, even where “only he/she who flies” can arrive – which accounts for her nickname “Redrobin” and the image of “barefoot midwife” that is often associated with her. In 1994 Robin started in Bali the Yayasan Ibu Bumi Sehat (Healthy Mother Hearth) non-profit Foundation, so that she could rely on a steady health care and birth services clinic, while continuing her village to village working practice.
Following the December 2004 Tsunami disaster, Robin decides to make a big change in her life. She moves to Banda Aceh (Sumatra), an area where 70% of the population died in the disaster, the social network is destroyed and survivors are heavily traumatised. There, Robin starts her extraordinary work as an emergency midwife. She is assisted by survival teams, “angels of vitamins” as they are defined in the website of the IDEP Foundation, based in Bali, which supports Ibu Robin’s work. In Italy, Robin is supported by the Association “Il Melograno” – Centri di Informazione Maternità e Nascita – with its many province-based centres.
In Bali problems are countless, but Robin can rely on her long experience. Knowing how desperate the health situation is in Bali, she welcomes in the clinic also the disabled relatives who sometimes come along with pregnant women. Robin’s health centre, therefore, became a “community clinic”, a safe harbour where state-level tensions between Muslims and Christians cease to exist. Given her professional use of natural remedies, Chinese medicine and homeopathy, Robin created a botanic garden, in order to obtain herbs and spread knowledge about them. While doing this, she united traditional knowledge from Bali, the Philippines, Malaysia and Hawaii, that is to say of the whole tropical area of South East Asia. Other initiatives which Robin took include the organisation of a small factory for the processing of herbal remedies, the interviewing of traditional healers, the employment of a number of mothers, who now prepare products such as baby powder, medicines, handicrafts, newborn babies’ equipment, and the creation of a small shop where these products are sold. All of this was done in a tiny village close to a town named Ubud.
In Aceh, Ibu Robin is promoting the creation of a community centre which will include a clinic, a school room, a library, a kitchen, a bathroom and a children’s playfield. Right after the Tsunami disaster, Bumi Sehat and IDEP Foundation built a clinic which can take care of up to 1500 patients per month – people who are sick with malaria, wounded to be operated immediately. All of this, in a situation of absolute emergency, where transfusion blood is impossible to obtain, electricity cables are destroyed, where it is impossible to buy and install equipment for solar energy, while petrol for generators is extremely expensive.
What is absolutely striking in Robin’s work is her intertwining of love, stubbornness and orientation to practice. When working in a Muslim environment for the first time, she discovered that women would not step out of their homes if they weren’t able to wear their head scarves. She solved this newly found problem simply by buying tens of meters of fabric to make sure that women could have their scarves. It s undoubtedly thanks to such choices that she can claim to never have experienced communication problems.
It is not difficult to imagine Ibu Robin using the same promptness in extremely sensitive situations, as when she refuses to take sides in the decades-long struggle between governmental and separatist forces in Aceh: in fact, both forces are responsible for heavy violations of human rights. Even after the fragile truce which followed the Tsunami, Ibu Robin kept her totally neutral attitude, which is what allows her to be helpful to everybody in the same way. Her reactions to protests that arise when Christian volunteers fall in love with Muslim local women are known to be very strong: the clinic, she says, belongs to everybody and nobody, without limits or exclusions. Rather than being a retreat from the realm of politics, this stance can be viewed as the precise will to conduct her work at the level of emotions, personal history, psychological and physical contact.
Among the many teachings that we owe to Ibu Robin, there stands out the idea that people who suffer need beauty, and that weakness can and must turn into a source of strength. One of her most important results is the fact that in Bali “the poorest women can enjoy the most beautiful birthing experiences, which not even the most expensive clinic could offer”. Finally, one of her most interesting initiatives is that at a writing contest in Bali she promoted a woman poet from Aceh, in order to contribute in changing Aceh’s image from “the place of the disaster” to a place that can produce poetry and spiritual wealth. It is an example of how to value and empower victims, so that they can become key players of their destiny.
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On many parents request, the July meet-up ("on motherhood") has been postponed to September. We will inform you on the exact date.
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14/05/09, Sala Azalee ClubHouse
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Physiology, psychology and some funny stories
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Too early, too late? When is the "right" moment to toilet train your child. Physiology, psychology and some funny stories
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What kind of a parent are you? Strict, cool, confused? There will be a lot of different points of view. Come and share yours with us.
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This session was well attended by both mums and dads and the discussion session became quite animated. We covered weaning stages, foods (organic, seasonal, nutritional values) concerns, tips and tricks.
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Il tema dell'incontro: "dal latte alle pappe". Dopo gli incontri sull'allattamento al seno tenuti nel 2007, Cristina Realini ha ora introdotto alle mamme e ai papa' il tema dello svezzamento. Si e' insieme discusso dell'importanza della gradualita' (e della stagionalita') nell'assunzione dei cibi solidi e soprattutto della necessita' di osservare i bisogni reali del bambino, che attraverso la dentizione, la capacita' di stare seduto, di afferrare gli oggetti… ci dice se e quando e' pronto per passare dal latte alle pappe. Prossimo incontro Venerdi' 14 Novembre, stesso luogo, stesso orario per parlare insieme di come organizzare la propria casa a misura di bambino.
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Sorry, we are quite a big group already for this walk; it's not practical to increase the size any further. Please join us on the next one. I numeri massimi per questa camminata son state raggiunte. Organisiamo un altra fra poco.
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A Dicembre Parentlink organizzera un " Mercatino del libero scambio". L'idea e nata come stimolo per sviluppare l'autonomia dei ragazzi e la capacità di relazionarsi con gli altri. Mettiamo in contatto chi cerca e chi offre, per comprendere il valore delle cose.
Partecipare è facile: basta che gli aspiranti mercanti si iscrivano per email entro il 15 novembre.
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Crescere un bambino e' sicuramente una esperienza esaltante, ma non e' sempre facile!
Consigli ed informazioni sono fondamentali, ma a volte avresti semplicemente bisogno di sostegno, di comprensione, di ascolto. Di un contatto amorevole nella realta' quotidiana (notte inclusa!) della cura del tuo bambino.
La maggior parte di noi si e' trasferita qua da lontano, molti senza neppure parlare l'italiano. Siamo arrivati coi bimbi piccoli o abbiamo avuto qua il nostro primo figlio. Ed e' stato difficile entrare in contatto con altra gente, con altri genitori; scambiarsi esperienze o semplicemente trovare le informazioni giuste. Quante volte abbiamo desiderato che esistesse un posto accogliente ed informale dove incontrarsi e conoscersi…
E questo e' rimasto il nostro sogno: una "casa comune" dove i bambini possano giocare liberamente fra loro e i genitori rilassarsi. ParentLink e' il primo mattone di questa casa: una rete fra la gente. E perche' questo avvenga abbiamo iniziato col creare questo sito, la nostra casa virtuale. Ma non solo! Pensiamo a incontri sociali (con e senza bimbi), gruppi di sostegno da pari a pari, seminari e counselling per specifici argomenti di cura parentale (come l'allattamento al seno),
gruppi-gioco, attivita' artistiche e all'aperto per bambini sotto i 10 anni…
Ti aspettiamo!
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Parenting a baby is great, but not always easy, especially in an unfamiliar environment. Advice and information are crucial, as are support, a friendly ear and a window into the day-to-day (and night-to-night!) reality of parenting our children.
Most of us moved here from far away, many of us are still learning Italian. We came with young children or we had our first child here. Sometimes it was difficult to get in contact with other people and with other parents, to exchange experiences or simply to get the right information quickly. A lot of the time we just wanted an informal, welcoming space to meet people for socialising. This is our biggest idea: to have a drop-in centre where kids can run around and parents can relax. We will start off by building a "virtual house", this blog and our website; and by creating a network of people, by arranging one-off social events (with and without the kids), peer-to-peer support groups, seminars and counselling for particular parenting themes (like breastfeeding), regular playgroup sessions and regular art and outdoor activities aimed at under 10's.
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email: Tinab.shop(at)gmail.com
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The LUNCHTIME “MEET-UPS” On Parenting will begin on Friday 24th October. They will take place between 12.00-14.00, in the Sala "Azalee" of the ClubHouse in Ispra. With your participation and with the leadership of the professional from the "Melograno", the meetings will be a friendly place to meet and discuss. All are welcome.
Dates for your Diary:
24/10/08 Dal latte alle pappe From milk to solids
14/11/08 Una casa a misura di bambino Adapting your house for children
12/12/08 Ninna nanna, ninnaò Sleeping (or not)
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Come promesso, vi inoltriamo il messaggio ricevuto dal JRC, Unita' C02/OHS, Servizi Psicosociali riguardo la cancellazione del primo incontro sulla cura dei bambini. Vi informeremo riguardo le prossime date, quando concordate.
"Per ragioni di tipo organizzativo e iin accordo con la nostra gerarchia, abbiamo dovuto posticipare gli incontri previsti. Gli incontri ricominceranno piu' avanti"
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The LUNCHTIME “MEET-UPS” On Parenting will begin on Friday 24th October. They will take place between 12.00-14.00, in the Sala "Azalee" of the ClubHouse in Ispra. With your participation and with the leadership of the professional from the "Melograno", the meetings will be a friendly place to meet and discuss. All are welcome.
