Casa de Cura e Nascimento (House of Healing and Birth)
Casa de Cura e Nascimento (House of Healing and Birth) is a space that aims to care for natural childbirth, rescue and recovery work of midwives that promotes and birth of children of the community in a safe and respectful environment, which ensures the autonomy and family’s choice family.
About You
Section 1: You
First Name
Sandra
Last Name
Souza Maciel
Website URL
Organization
Movimento Curador
Country
Brazil
Section 2: Your Organization
Organization Name
Movimento Curador
Organization Website
Organization Phone
+55 81 8633-5343
Organization Address
Rua Carlos Mavignier,101 Casa Amarela Recife-PE
Is your organization a
Not registered
Organization Country
Brazil
Your idea
Name Your Project
Casa de Cura e Nascimento (House of Healing and Birth)
Country and state your work focuses on
Brazil, PE
Describe Your Idea
Casa de Cura e Nascimento (House of Healing and Birth) is a space that aims to care for natural childbirth, rescue and recovery work of midwives that promotes and birth of children of the community in a safe and respectful environment, which ensures the autonomy and family’s choice family.
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Innovation
What makes your idea unique?
There are respectful birth delivery attendance places worldwide, both public and private, although few of them focus their attention on the demands of grassroots communities.
However, spaces that offer the service delivery performed by traditional midwives are still unknown in Brazil. Facing the families in vulnerable situations and pass on the oral tradition for the training of new midwives, rituals, and management techniques labourand childbirth, as well as integrate all this into a movement for the recognition of traditional midwives as a reference in humanized childbirth care.
Within this perspective, to produce an educational material for recording this knowledge as an educational tool, with the maneuvers, the remedies of the placenta, the techniques of webowsas. In other words: all the accumulated knowledge about childbirth, as well as knowledge of herbs for teas and baths with their various indications. The proposal is to make this space a reference for research on the work done by midwives, and a pedagogical framework of oral tradition.
The Casa de Cura e Nascimento (House of Healing and Birth) will accompany the child until its first three years, helping the family to care at home from simple diseases that affect children, as well as guide them on breastfeeding and nutrition.
Within a timeframe envisaged by the Casa de Cura e Nascimento, we're researching all the products made by midwives, from potions, toys, flowers. The idea is to organize a production house that can acquire a minimum of sustainability, at the same time an organic garden that can supply the house since many of the midwives are farmers.
Do you have a patent for this idea?
Impact
This Entry is about (Issues)
What impact have you had?
1. Give back to women the autonomy to choose the way they want to give birth, with the participation of family members. Making the delivery event more emotional, spiritual and communitary.
2. Visibility and recognition of traditional midwives as community references of humanized childbirth .
3. Nurses and midwives apprentices have began the training, enabling the transfer of the tradition of labourand childbirth. We have requests from midwives from around the world who want to stage the Casa de Cura e Nascimento and a significant number of midwifes apprentices.
4. Expantion of Casa’s projects at international conferences: Mexico, Cuba, Argentina
5. Starting from this work, a large number of academic papers on issues related to the midwives were performed, as well as interviews, documentaries and prizes. And,more important, how midwives are empowered, without any intellectual discourse that represents them.
Problem
1. The lack of a suitable environment for the realization of natural childbirth with traditional midwife in the community
2. The lack of choice for pregnant women regarding the natural techniques of birth
3. Lack of educational material on techniques and procedures of labourand childbirth used by traditional midwives
4. Devaluation of the heritage of traditional midwives
Actions
• Construction of the Casa de Cura e Nascimento (House of Healing and Birth) with all necessary infrastructure, built with bioarchitecture for achieving natural childbirth, performed by traditional midwives.
• To create a possibility for pregnant women to exercise their right to choose, restoring the autonomy of the woman giving birth.
• To promote a training area that values the traditional knowledge, promoting the construction of educational materials, including: an audiovisual Encyclopedia of the work of traditional midwives and a handbook of traditional healing and childbirth.
• Personals meetings every week with midwives for exchange of knowledge, attendance and training of new midwives.
Results
• Further information about the processes of women during pregnancy, delivery and birth and reducing caesarean
• Increase the participation of women in the community to more respectful attention to childbirth
• Self esteem, appreciation and visibility of traditional midwives
• Create an opportunity to access the less agressive therapies.
• Reduced flow of maternities where the home delivery is inserted.
• Training of new midwives, preserving traditional knowledge.
•Rescue of oral knowledge of techniques and procedures of traditional midwives
What will it take for your project to be successful over the next three years? Please address each year separately, if possible.
In the first year:
Recognition of the Casa de Cura e Nascimento (House of Healing and Birth) as a place of reference for treatment and training of traditional birth performed by midwives.
Plan fundraising strategies
Assistance to two deliveries per week
Groups of pregnant women weekly
Weekly meetings with midwives
Consolidation of partnerships
Coordination with local public and civil society organizations
Registration and systematization of teaching material
In the second year:
Fundraising Plan
Consolidation of the pregnant women group and midwives meeting
Opening for resident interns
Launch of the fall II Audiovisual Encyclopedia of the work of traditional midwives
First training with 30 apprentice midwives of the Casa de Cura e Nascimeno (House of Healing and Birth), with techniques and procedures of traditional midwives
Basic course in herbology
Assistance to four deliveries per week
Launch of the First Handbook of healing and traditional birth
In the third year:
Assistance to six deliveries per week
Construction of four internship houses
Training of 30 midwives
Advanced course in herbology
Launch of the Second Handbook of healing and traditional birth
l Meeting of midwives toencourage participation at the Casa de Cura e Nascimento (House of Healing and Birth)
What would prevent your project from being a success?
We know the prejudice associated with midwifery and natural childbirth. Since the 50s when the medicalization of brazilian society has turned labor to a pathological event, creating the need for the presence of the physician. Demystify this speech will be one of our challenges.
The registration of children became a dificult process at registries, although the labor performed by midwives, is provided by law, we face a lot of bureaucracy at the time of birth registration.
Coordination with local health site, for referrals of pregnant women when required and remuneration of midwives. One issue that I believe is common to us all, is the financial question, as to make possible the activities need a minimum of resources.
How many people will your project serve annually?
101‐1000
What is the average monthly household income in your target community, in US Dollars?
$100 ‐ 1000
Does your project seek to have an impact on public policy?
Yes
Sustainability
What stage is your project in?
Operating for 1‐5 years
In what country?
Brazil, PE
Is your initiative connected to an established organization?
Yes
If yes, provide organization name.
Movimento Curador
How long has this organization been operating?
More than 5 years
Does your organization have a Board of Directors or an Advisory Board?
Does your organization have any non-monetary partnerships with NGOs?
Yes
Does your organization have any non-monetary partnerships with businesses?
Yes
Does your organization have any non-monetary partnerships with government?
Yes
Please tell us more about how these partnerships are critical to the success of your innovation.
For the project to consolidate the partnerships are essential, the first partnership to establish is with the midwives, the protagonists of the project. Without them the project loses its original meaning.
The partnership is with the government. This one for the assistance of pregnant women in maternities when necessary. Also for the release of delivery material and remuneration of midwives, all provided by law by the scale of the Unified Health System - SUS, but never performed by the health departments.
Civil society organizations, for the recognition and strengthening of political discussion about the attendance of a midwife delivery and integration of public policies.
Private initiative for sustainability of the initiative. By making the privat sector understand the need for integration of the thematic issues in social responsibility
What are the three most important actions needed to grow your initiative or organization?
• Construction of the Casa de Cura e Nascimento (House of Healing and Birth):
Capture the remaining resource to its viability. Today we have a land with 6 acres and R$ 5,000.00 from an award Masters of Popular Culture - (Ministry of Culture) and some donations of materials to begin construction. The plan has been drafted and are now at the stage of estimate costs and fundraising.
• Assistance of pregnant women to exercise her right to choose, restoring the autonomy of the woman giving birth.
• Preparation and production of an Audiovisual Encyclopedia of the work of traditional midwives and the Handbook of traditional healing and childbirth.
The Story
What was the defining moment that led you to this innovation?
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Tell us about the social innovator behind this idea.
Behind this solution is a group of traditional midwives who know about childbirth, healing and humanization. These are women who worked throughout their life to fullfill their community needs at any time. Assisting families where the health system is not even there.
They want to continue their work. They want to pass on this knowledge. They want to be recognized and want to give back to women's the autonomy of birth and cure of common diseases affecting children.
My job is to organize the intangible heritage and act as a bridge for them to realize all their wishes. I am an apprentice midwife and have learned a lot from them, I was born by a midwife hands and I believe that birth is not an illness and not all diseases need to be taken care of in a hospital.
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