Dawn House News - August 2023
- From the Editor -
An Ambitious Project Without Pretence
"Cultivating Synergy Between Midwifery, Permaculture, and Spiritual Growth”
”Dawn House” with its garden is an easy accessible place in the village of Oledo, a mere 15 minutes drive from Idanah-a-Nova, central Portugal. The premesses is being transformed into an incubator for cross pollination between Midwifery and Permaculture while nurturing Spiritual Growth.
This introduction highlights the Midwifery component for reasons
of personal background, available contacts and as writing space is limited.
Meet the caretaker
The caretaker of “Dawn House”, Ibrahim, trained as a mature student in Flanders, Belgium. as a midwife. He experienced briefly the business of midwifery in The Netherlands and - known across the Atlantic as the proponent of the then soon popular Usenet group sci.med.midwifery - he was invited to a home birthing midwifery practise run by the late Sharon K. Evans in Oregon, USA. Sharon was a key figure in the creation of the North American Registry of Midwives (NARM). At a conference in Scottsdale, Arizona, he met Ina May Gaskin and other movers and shakers of the North American and global midwifery scene.
Ibrahim obtained a pedagogical degree allowing him to teach in higher education. He also holds a certificate of a State sanctioned course that provided insight in the mechanisms of intercultural work aimed at fulfilling a position in international development aid. He completed a Permaculture Design Course and intends to attend a PDC Teacher Training.
His hobbies, besides baking bread and cake, include finding digital copies of books that have been machine-translated to Portuguese. He also keeps a video library of documentaries which he would love to project for a small audience, either at “Dawn House” or on location.
No longer is he practising midwifery in the field himself but he stays a strong advocate for both the improvement of midwifery care and for policies that strengthen the profile and position of midwives, doulas and other birth attendants.
Accreditation has to safeguard professional titles, knowledge, attitudes and talents while at the same time provide multiple inroads into the neonatal care professions. This endeavour is probably the only way to provide the widest range of female centered care at the highest standards to women and their families before, during and after giving birth without risking legal consequences for some care providers.
In working with and for local practitioners and by making Dawn House’s facilities available also to visiting birth attendants from around the globe, it is believed the set aims can be achieved.
Dawn House
August 18, 2023
Above editorial appeared in Dawn House News Summer 2023.
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