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June 19, 2010Pillar Community Innovation Awards
The Community Innovation Awards highlight how the nonprofit sector’s innovation, leadership, and collaboration improves the quality of life in London and surrounding area. The Awards celebrate nonprofits and charities and the individuals, businesses and government sector organizations who work with them to make our community brighter. Individuals, nonprofits and charities, businesses and government sector organizations are eligible for nomination.
Call for Nominations 2010
Share your stories. Inspire by example. Recognize deserving individuals and organizations.
Award Categories
• Community Innovation Award
• Community Leadership Award
• Community Impact Award
• Community Collaboration Award
Both finalists and award recipients are invited to attend the awards ceremony as guests of honour.
They will also receive:
• an engraved award.
• exposure through the Pillar Nonprofit Network newsletter, website and media materials.
In addition, award recipients will receive $2500 to be directed to their registered charity of choice and their name engraved on a perpetual plaque in the Hudson’s Bay Passageway of the Central Library. If you know of an individual or organization in the London area that has demonstrated dedication, creative solutions and/or a collaborative spirit, consider nominating them for a Pillar Community Innovation Award.
About Pillar
Pillar Nonprofit Network connects close to 15,000 Londoners to nonprofit organizations annually. We exist to build capacity within this essential sector. Pillar Nonprofit Network believes that our role in developing and supporting the nonprofit sector is instrumental in ensuring that London’s nonprofits continue to be innovative and vital contributors to our community.
Share. Inspire. Recognize.
Double Happiness Project- Olsen Europe
Many major companies donate to charities, which is – without a doubt – a good thing. But occasionally it makes sense to initiate joint projects in order to really move things and make a sustainable, long-term difference.
“We want to empower and support women all over the world”, explains Dorothee Ingwersen, Olsen’s head of communications. Olsen is an international brand with a unique philosophy. The concepts of friendship and emotional strength play a very special role for Olsen. Fashion is perceived as a positive, authentic lifestyle. “And for us it goes without saying that we want make a contribution to society by sharing our core competence in fashion. By providing manpower and know-how we hope to make a positive and lasting contribution to globalisation.”
The actress Christina Plate is the sponsor of these Olsen projects. Sustainability is a key aim in all Olsen’s textile projects.
The Olsen project continues. Together with Plan International, Olsen is supporting a new textile project in India. The wonderful and very distinctive collection “Double Happiness India 2010″ will be available through our online shop from March 2010 and from selected shops.
The key design in the collection is the Chinese character for “Double Happiness”, which stands for friendship and partnership. And for a better world.
This symbol will also be featured in the next Double Happiness Collection 2010.
My Pregnancy Journal
Positive Birth Stories
By: Cheryl Weedmark
We love to focus on the negative! Why is that? I find more and more that people, women; mothers feel the need to tell me their terrible, negative birth stories? In fact, at a work party one evening, a husband described their birth story as a ‘murder scene’. Gee- thanks for that. I have also learned that there are women out there that have positive birth stories and maybe are just scared to share them. I also found a wonderful group here in London I wanted to share with you- it’s called the Red Tent Circle. My dear friend Rebecca Liston- homeopathic Physician- is very involved and it’s such a great place to go to share, learn, empower and grow. Here is the contact info for the Red Tent Circle:
(519) 667-5100
And here is a POSITIVE birth story that I hope you enjoy reading as much as I did!
Birth story: A drug-free HypnoBirth
by Jeni Paltiel
Labor begins
My water broke in the morning and sort of trickled all day. I wasn’t completely sure that it had broken at first: when I woke up I was just a little wet and it was totally clear, so it took me a while to be sure it wasn’t just pee or sweat or something.
With my first pregnancy, I was in that minority of women whose water breaks with a gush before contractions ever start — and it happened in a restaurant while we were out to dinner, the scenario everyone told me not to worry about because it never happens.
This time around, I spent a lot of time alternately worrying about ruining the couch and worrying if the baby was OK as his fluid leaked out. I sent my husband with my son, Michael, off to his toddler gym class in the morning, sure I’d have to call them back because my contractions were minutes apart…and then nothing happened all day.
I wasn’t really scared, but I had that sense of excitement and anticipation, with just a little fear mixed in, waiting for something big to happen. I also felt impatient; I kept comparing my progress to my first labor, which was so quick. I cleaned the house, made banana bread, and watched Dora the Explorer with Michael. (It was the episode in which Dora’s twin brother and sister are born. That was kind of neat, although I don’t think Michael made the connection.)
Labor progresses
At 3 p.m., my ob-gyn said to just go to the hospital and get checked out. Fearing all sorts of interventions, I went anyway because I wanted to make sure the baby wasn’t in distress. We called a friend to come over and stay with Michael. Just as we pulled into the hospital parking lot, I finally felt one big gush. I don’t know if I was finally relaxing because we were about to get it checked out, or if that was just coincidence. In a moment of pregnancy insanity, I was much more worried about people thinking I had peed my pants than I was about facing labor!
The baby was fine, and the contractions started soon after we got to hospital. They were pretty light for the first two hours. They felt like a squeezing and tightening; I could feel my uterus slowly clamp down and then open up again, like the contraction was rolling across the uterus in a wave. I didn’t feel much of that with my first baby, but this time I had an hour or two of it.
Other than the bed and the TV (thank goodness for Monday Night Football), I didn’t really pay much attention to the other stuff in the room, although it was interesting to watch the contractions on the ticker tape, at least in the beginning. The staff did a nice job of keeping the lights dimmed and making sure I had socks and blankets and stuff without being too intrusive.
Managing the pain
I had used HypnoBirthing techniques [a form of self-hypnosis that relies on visualization, affirmation, and deep breathing] instead of drugs when Michael was born, and I used some of them — mainly visualization — again with this labor. I imagined every contraction was a wave and I was trying to surf on top of it. I think the techniques mostly helped me handle the pain rather than easing it, although in the beginning, when the contractions were less intense, breathing helped a bit. I wasn’t dead set on doing this birth drug free, but I kept saying, “Let me see how far I can get,” and then when I was just about at the end of my rope, the baby was crowning.
I labored most of the time on my side with the bed flat, but when things got really intense, the labor and delivery nurse suggested I try on my hands and knees, which seemed to help. She put the back of the bed into an almost-upright position and I leaned on that while I knelt on the bed.
When I dilated to 7 centimeters, the contractions got really intense. I felt cramping across the bottom of my uterus, like the worst menstrual cramps ever, except I could feel them coming on, building and then subsiding. Man, did I look forward to the subsiding! Just knowing that little break was coming kept me going at the end. Once the contractions got really intense, I stopped using the visualizations. For the last 45 minutes, I was just breathing through it, using Pilates breathing (deep, controlled breaths in through my nose and out through my mouth).
The delivery
At this point they called my doctor. As soon as she arrived, the baby was crowning. She suggested using mineral oil to prevent tearing, and I didn’t tear at all. I had to ask the doctor to give me a refresher on pushing because it had been awhile! She told me to take a deep breath, let it go, then take another deep breath and push. The pushing felt harder than in my last birth, maybe because this baby was heavier than my first.
He came out at 7:24 p.m., about three and a half hours after my first contraction. I never felt maternal exhaustion, but after he was born I felt a huge sense of relief. My ob-gyn said, “Great delivery. That was fun.” Maybe not how I would have described it, but I am pretty proud of myself (as I think all mothers should be no matter how they deliver).
36 Weeks!
Your baby is still gaining weight – about 28g a day. She weighs nearly 2.7kg and is about 47cm long from head to toe. You may begin to feel an increased pressure in your lower belly and notice that your baby is gradually dropping. This is called lightening or engagement, and your lungs and stomach will finally get a chance to stretch out a little – breathing and eating should become easier.
However, walking may become increasingly uncomfortable – some women say it feels as if their baby is going to fall out. Also, you may still feel as if you need to go to the loo all the time. Check out our eating well guide and stock up on those last-minute nutrients.
The good news is that by the end of this week, your pregnancy will be full-term and you could give birth any day. Babies between 37 and 42 weeks are considered full-term – a baby born before 37 weeks is premature and after 42 is post-term.
Your may have noticed that your breasts are leaking a little. This is quite normal. They are producing the rich, first milk called colostrum that will give your baby a great start in life. If you feel like you’re going into labour, your doctor or midwife will check to see if the neck of your womb (cervix) is starting to open. They’ll look to see if your cervix is dilating, or widening, and effacing, or thinning.
Your midwife will be keeping an eye on what position your baby is in, to estimate how far your baby has dropped into your pelvis. This information will be entered into your maternity notes so that your midwife will know the position of your baby when you go into labour.
Other Guests:
Olsen Europe www.olseneurope.com Pillar Non Profit www.pillarnonprofit.ca Pat Mussieux www.confidenceandcourage.com Michelle Boyce A show about Human Rights and people’s pursuit of “Happily Ever After” www.betweenthemargins.ca Jeff Wareham MGI Securities Listen To “Beyond Funds” Saturday’s on AM980 at 9:30am 140 Fullarton StreetLondon, Ontario
N6A 5P7
Tel: 519-963-8022 http://www.mgisecurities.com/Retail/Advisors/p_AdvisorProfile.aspx?advisorID=56 Children’s Furniture Gallery 1040 Wharncliffe Road South
London, ON N6L 1H2
(519) 649-2590 www.childnrensfurnituregallery.ca Marty Menard Elite Personal Training Studio 73 York St. London, Ontario (519) 645-2578 marty@elitepersonaltraining.ca www.elitepersonaltraining.ca/ Katina Kritikos
Ethos the Spa
www.ethosthespa.com
633 Richmond Street 1-800-ETHOSPA London and area (519)438-7327
Dr. Jamie and Joel Richards
Café of Life Chiropractic
www.cafeoflifelondon.com
E-mail: jamie@cafeoflifelondon.com
joel@faceoflifelondon.com
394 Oxford St. East
(519)439-5353
Jeff Robb
Turner Drug Store Ltd.
www.turnerdrugs.com
E-mail: turner@turnerdrugs.com
52 Grand Avenue at Carfrae Crescent,
Tel: 1 (800) 566-8482
