Upcoming Events

Birth & Women's Health Center
2595 N. Wyatt Dr.
Tucson, AZ 85712
Phone: 520-795-9912
Fax: 520-795-9934

The Birth & Women's Health Center hosts the upcoming

2008 AABC Birth Institute and Annual Meeting

The Birth Center is proud to be a part of this national event promoting the efficacy of birth centers and the necessity for birthing options for women in the U.S.

We would like to invite all of the families who, over the last 26 years, have had babies with our midwives either at TMC or the Birth Center to join in the Children's Parade at the Welcome Celebration Thursday, September 4, 2008 at 6 pm.

The Birth Center and AABC aim to celebrate the families who have had the courage and confidence to be the real change agents for improving the childbirth experience in America.

Please contact Wenonah at the Birth Center to RSVP. All are welcome!

Read more about the children's event at the Tucson Citizen online.

For internet directions to Loews Ventana Canyon Resort
7000 North Resort Drive, Ph.520-299-2020

Learn more about the AABC 2nd Annual Birth Institute: What is Optimal? and all that is planned for the conference at www.BirthCenters.org Below are some of the planned forums

Conference Sessions

Achieving Optimal Birth in the U.S.A.

Too Posh to Push? Liability, Managed Care, and C-Sections in the U.S.

Botanical in Pregnancy and Lactation

Defining Optimal Birth ~ A Data Report from the AABC Uniform Data Set

Keeping Birth Optimal ~ Using Your Consumer Resources

State of the Union ~ National Update on
Maternity Care & Women's Health

Turning Around the High-Tech Birth
Paradigm: Creating a New Generation of
Birth Activists

Infectious Disease Update

The Good Birth Project

Featured Speakers

Dr. Marsden Wagner -the former Director of Women's and Children's Health for the World Health Organization - is the author of the book Born in the USA: How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First.

Judy Norsigian, executive director and a founder of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, is co-author of all editions of Our Bodies, Ourselves.

Dr. Tieraona Low Dog has an extensive career in natural medicine and is Director of Education for the Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona.