8th Annual Meet BABI Fair May 14, 2011

Bay Area Birth Information (BABI), a local non-profit organization, will hold its 8th annual Meet BABI Fair connecting expectant and new parents with dedicated professionals, services, information, and community resources.

A group of birth-related professionals who wished to provide a stronger community of support for birthing and new families founded BABI, the only non-profit, non-affiliated pregnancy and parenting resource organization in the South Bay and Peninsula.

The community will have the opportunity to connect with birth professionals in the Bay Area. On hand for consultations will be midwives, doulas, childbirth and new baby instructors, breastfeeding and postpartum support, chiropractors, acupuncturists, herbalists, pre-natal and infant massage therapists, pre-natal yoga instructors, and local support groups. There will also be free massage, panel discussions, lots of prize drawings, face painting, demonstrations and mini lectures by local experts throughout the day.

BABI promotes awareness of evidence-based care and options in order to reduce unnecessary birth interventions, improve breastfeeding success rates, and preserve healthy mother, baby, and family attachments.

Through compassionate, accessible, and non-judgmental education and resources, BABI seeks to increase and promote normal, spontaneous labor and vaginal delivery, minimize mother/baby separations, and reduce the maternal/infant morbidity and mortality rates. BABI promotes greater awareness of evidence-based care and the broad range of choices available to birthing women as well as birth professionals, restoring dignity, safety, satisfaction and joy to the birthing process.

Official Website: http://www.bayareabirthinfo.org/meetbabi