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Informed Homebirth/Informed Birth and Parenting is a national, non-profit, educational organization founded in 1977 by Rahima Baldwin Dancy in Ann Arbor, Michigan (now in Fair Oaks, California) as Informed Homebirth. In 1983, the name was changed. Its mission is to provide parents with information about alternatives in birth, parenting, and early childhood through childbirth preparation classes, books and videos, seminars and conferences, childbirth education training and certification, referrals, and childbirth assistant training and certification.
The Informed Homebirth/Informed Birth and Parenting Records include publications, video and audio tapes, and teaching manuals for childbirth education and childbirth assistant training, conferences, and workshops; books and articles on home birth and midwifery; Michigan Midwives Association newsletters; financial records; and professional papers of Rahima Baldwin Dancy, 1980s-1990s.
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The papers are open to research according to the regulations of the Sophia Smith Collection.
This collection has not been fully processed and therefore may be difficult to use.
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Informed Homebirth/Informed Birth and Parenting Records, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.
Periodic additions to collection are expected and may not be reflected in this record.