Parto do Princípio – Network of Women for an Active Maternity
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Parto do Princípio is a network of common women that work voluntarily to provide all women with quality information, based on scientific evidence, about conscious pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding and maternity.
Sobre você
Sobre você
Primeiro nome
Parto do Principio
Sobrenome
Mulheres em Rede pela Maternidade Ativa
Página na internet
Organização
Parto do Princípio – Network of Women for an Active Maternity
País
Brazil, SP
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Sobre sua organização
Nome da organização
Parto do Princípio – Network of Women for an Active Maternity
Página da organização na internet
Telefone da organização
44 3222-9104 / 44 9927-7298
Endereço da organização
Rua Santos Dumont, 969 - Maringá - Paraná - CEP 87050-100
País da organização
Brazil, SP
Sua ideia
Name Your Project
Parto do Princípio – Network of Women for an Active Maternity
País onde se dará o foco de atuação
Brazil, SP
Describe Your Idea
Parto do Princípio is a network of common women that work voluntarily to provide all women with quality information, based on scientific evidence, about conscious pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding and maternity.
Página na internet
Inovação
Por que a ideia é única e qual o diferencial em relação aos demais projetos do mesmo campo de atuação?
Because it is a support network made by women for women – not from health professionals for “patients” – where personal experiences and the path taken by each one towards a conscience about child-birth and an active and respectful child-birth is valued.
Unfortunately, the training of our health professional, especially regarding pregnancy and child-birth, doesn’t take the women’s wishes into consideration, nor their expectations and knowledge around the subject.
We are treated like sick people, incapable of deciding about our own bodies. It is crucial for a woman to hear from the lips of another woman that it is possible to have assistance focused on what she deems important, a humanized assistance.
Our intention is to revive the women knowledge that was previously passed from mother to daughter, from older to younger women, reviving themes and the strength of the feminine.
A sua inovação é patenteada?
Não
Impacto
This Entry is about (Issues)
Quais foram os impactos obtidos até o momento?
The network has an easy access by the users of the obstetric system through the internet, but it has also allowed for increased interaction and support for existing Child-birth Support Groups (GAPPs), as well as for encouraging new groups.
That way, the actions gained national momentum, our ideals have been vastly broadcasted, helping women to achieve dignified child-births focused on their own needs.
Problema
We believe that providing information and emotional support to women, we will help to decrease the high occurrence of cesarean sections without a clear and objective medical prescription. The WHO recommendation is for them to represent 15% of total number of childbirths, but in Brazil it is as high as 80% in private health care and almost 30% in public health care. By decreasing the number of cesarean sections we also decrease the number of maternal deaths and increase the breastfeeding rates, which directly favors our children.
Ações
- Greater reach of the website and blog.
- Greater support of the network for the GAPPs (which are independent initiatives, but benefit from the work of the network)
- Participation in events of our field of knowledge, making the network known and its actions recognized.
- Elaboration of educational material.
- Elaboration of actions and complaint bills to highlight the problem of childbirth assistance to the government.
Public policies:
It is in our interests that the existing laws are enforced, such as:
- Law 11.108/2005 about the right to have a companion during childbirth (extended to the private assistance)
- Regulation nº 985/GM of August 5th 1999, aout ensuring the creation of normal childbirth centers bound to the public health system.
Audience in the Public Ministry shows ways to decrease the number of Cesarean sections in Brazil:
In July 2006, Parto do Princípio Network denounced the excess of cesarean sections done in the health sector in a complaint bill to the Federal Public Ministry of the State of São Paulo, in a document with 35 pages and more than 30 scientific papers.
The document spoke about the corporatism of doctors, the inefficiency of the National Health Agency in supervising and regulating the sector, the many ways in which the women are being misled to accept unnecessary cesarean sections, the disrespect towards a majority of women who would like to have a normal childbirth and are unable to (80%), the interventionist formation of medical school students, among other subjects.
Due to the relevance of this document, the Public Ministry realized an audience in the city of São Paulo, gathering, for the first time around this subject, authorities from the Health Ministry, National Health Agency, Federal Medicine Council, Regional Medicine Council, Association of Private Hospitals, Federal Nursing Council, São Pauli Medica School and Health Insurance delegates.
(Continue in Results*)
Resultados
-To inform women about the reality of the Brazilian obstetric system&the WHO recommendations.
-To empower the women for them to become masters of their bodies&decide for themselves, based on scientific truth, what is the best type of childbirth for which situation.
-To decrease the cesarean section rates in the private health system, this is as high as 80% as of today.
-To improve quality of the public assistance, ensuring a more positive childbirth experience.
-To increase breastfeeding rates.
(*Actions 2nd Part)Around 200 people were sitting in the auditorium of the Public Ministry, as well as delegates from the main hospitals in São Paulo, like Pro Matre, Santa Joana, Santa Catarina, São Camilo, Albert Einstein, Beneficência Portuguesa, Albert Sabin, Samaritano, Bosque da Saúde and Hospital Universitário. Among the health insurance companies, there were delegates from Amil/Amico, Medial, Bradesco Saúde, Dix Amico, Unimed e Samcil.
In responde to the questionings of the Public Ministry, all the represented sectors shared an agreement about 2essential topics:
1.Normal childbirth is better to the health of mothers and babies.
2.The reality is alarming: Brazil does too many cesarean
O que é essencial para que sua inovação seja bem sucedida nos próximos 3 anos?
2010
- To establish partnerships or create a form of associate contribution for financial support.
- To get attention of the media so more women get to know the network and the GAPPs
- To improve support for the GAPPs
2010
- To become an organization with defined roles
- To have a headquarters building
- To formalize and professionalize the network, paying the people that work voluntarily today or to count on professional orientation in that subject.
2012
- To have at least one GAPP in each capital city and many all over the countryside of all Brazilian states.
- To turn the GAPPs into an exclusive service of the network (nowadays the network supports independent initiatives)
- To get the necessary credibility for our actions to be decisive in the change of public policies and formation of our childbirth assistance professionals.
Qual(is) seria(m) os obstáculos para a sua inovação?
We are a virtual and voluntary network, and our actions depend on the goodwill of some participants of the network, so in many times we extrapolate the deadlines for the elaboration of materials or the momentum to take actions forward, as we do not have any kind of hierarchy in the network. That is to mention just ONE internal problem: we lack the organization. However, the network has always worked that way and we were successful as possible, so it is a model that pleases us, in a way.
An extreme problem would be that we deal with public health – we are dealing with the training and actions of professional that are rarely questioned, as they are considered the holders of knowledge due to a cultural issue.
We need to change:
- Popular culture
- Professional training
- Actions of professional that are already working
- Physical structure of maternity hospitals
Quantas pessoas, por ano, são beneficiadas pelo sua inovação?
1001‐10,000
Qual é a renda familiar média da comunidade que a sua inovação beneficia, em U$?
Não sei
A sua inovação influencia políticas públicas?
Sim
Sustentabilidade
Em que fase está a sua inovação?
Em execução entre 1-5 anos
Sua organização é
OSC/ONG
Sua inovação/iniciativa está vinculada a uma organização estabelecida?
Sim
Se "Sim", nome da organização
Há quanto tempo foi fundada a sua organização?
Há menos de 1 ano
Sua organização possui Diretoria ou Conselho Consultivo?
Sim
Sua organização possui alguma parceria não financeira com organizações sociais?
Não
Sua organização possui alguma parceria não financeira com empresas?
Sim
Sua organização possui alguma parceria não financeira com o governo?
Não
Conte-nos mais por que as parcerias acima são essenciais para a execução ou desenvolvimento da sua inovação
We believe all partnerships are welcome if it helps the network to grow, by training people who are already participating or increasing the scope and range of its actions, or adding value to the idea.
Quais são as três ações mais relevantes e necessárias para o crescimento da sua inovação ou organização?
Formalization of the Network.
Professionalization of the network (defined and paid roles, a hierarchy)
To increase scope and range of the network, making it renown all around the country as a place where any woman can get to quality information and support for having a dignified childbirth.
A história
Em que momento decidiu criar/liderar esta inovação? Conte-nos a sua história
In 2005, some women who participated in a discussion group in the internet reunited to give birth to the Parto do Princípio Network. Since the first activity, when forming the network, it was clear that it was a group of common women (not professionals of the area) that had learned more about childbirth, speaking for other common women who did not yet know much about it or faced this reality. The intention of the network is to revive the traditional knowledge, passed from person to person, from woman to woman, as our grandmothers did in the times when there was a community experience. We then created a name, a logo, a discussion group, a website and found the GAPPs.
Conte-nos a biografia do(a) inovador(a) social que criou ou lidera esta inovação
The network was idealized by Ingrid Lotfi, a Systems Analyst and a mother, when she perceived the need to formalize something that already happened informally: a great network of women who helped other women, pregnant, already mothers or not, to engage in active maternity. Encouragement words, help through virtual forums, phone calls or live meetings are some forms of activism of those women, passionate about normal childbirth and breastfeeding, with autonomy and freedom for giving birth to and raise their children.
The Parto do Princípio Network has a collaborative character, without hierarchies, as everything is decided collectively and dynamically. The availability of the participants varies, and we have new participants entering the network every day. There are women from many areas. There are psychologists, systems analysts, nurses, journalists, physiotherapists, teachers, doulas, all engaged in contributing with the knowledge they possess. The network enables collaboration, dividing work by sectors. The women can contribute with writing texts for publication, organizing the website, treating images, advertisement and so on.
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 | Parto do Principio submitted this idea. - 697 days ago |
| mireillie said: Bom, para começar por ser uma estrutura de Rede em Internet, as pessoas conseguem se comunicar com mais rapidez, com isso idéias sobre ... about this Competition Entry. - 698 days ago read more > |
| Flapenido said: Durante minha gravidez a tres anos atras procurei a rede para ter informações sobre o parto ativo. Descobri livros e grupos de apoios e ... about this Competition Entry. - 699 days ago read more > |
| Flapenido said: Os grupos de apoio ao parto normal são de uma ajuda imensa para as mulheres que querem ter um bom parto no Brasil. A mulher brasileira ... about this Competition Entry. - 699 days ago read more > |
| Parto do Principio said: O Ministro de Estado da Saúde, no uso de suas atribuições legais, considerando: a necessidade de garantir o acesso à assistência ao ... about this Competition Entry. - 700 days ago read more > |
| Parto do Principio said: publicada em 04/03/2008 Em razão do alarmante percentual de partos cesáreos realizados na saúde suplementar - que ultrapassa 80% - a ... about this Competition Entry. - 700 days ago read more > |
| Parto do Principio said: A RESOLUÇÃO NORMATIVA 167/2008, QUE ENTRARÁ EM VIGOR NO DIA 02/04/2008, ATUALIZA O ROL DE PROCEDIMENTOS MÉDICOS QUE CONSTITUI A ... about this Competition Entry. - 700 days ago read more > |
| Parto do Principio said: Julia, eu fiz a alteração sobre o impacto das ações no projeto. Mas pela falta de espçao, vou complementar aqui na ... about this Competition Entry. - 700 days ago read more > |
| Julia Forlani said: Olá Mulheres do parto do Princípio. Parabéns pela iniciativa de vocês. O trabalho da rede é realmente fantástico!! Queria pedir para ... about this Competition Entry. - 700 days ago read more > |
| Parto do Principio said: VOCÊ QUE CONHECE A REDE E QUER DAR A SUA CONTRIBUIÇÃO, DEIXE AQUI A SUA IDÉIA. SE FOR ALGO TOTALMENTE NOVO, DESCREVA COMO ESPERA QUE A ... about this Competition Entry. - 720 days ago read more > |
