Military Birth Resource Network Dyess Air Force Base Chapter

12/03/2024

🌟 This Giving Tuesday, join us in supporting military families by ensuring access to the vital support they deserve during pregnancy, childbirth, and beyond. Your contributions will help MBRNPC continue to support the birth worker community engaged with military families along with providing advocacy and resources for birth options, maternal mental health, infant feeding, and spousal employment opportunities in birth spaces. Together, we can empower military families and their support systems to thrive during such a transformative time in their lives. Let’s honor their sacrifices by ensuring they have the support they need—every donation counts! 💙

https://www.mbrnpc.org/donate?

12/24/2023

Happy Holidays from all of us at the Military Birth Resource Network and Postpartum Coalition.

As we reflect on 2023, we have so much to be grateful for. We have grown our Coalition, added network members, recruited amazing ambassadors, and worked on a lot of policy. With these accomplishments came some disappointment as well. While we lost some major issues in the 2024 NDAA, we are proud of the way this group (you included!) came together and pushed for more support for growing families in the military. Legislators and other organizations have taken notice and with you alongside us, we know that this work will continue to grow and evolve. Thank you for your passion and commitment to our mission and we can’t wait for you to join us in or work for 2024.

Be on the lookout for some updates, events, and opportunities coming soon! Wishing you all an amazing holiday season and we’ll see you in 2024!

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11/08/2023

The Military Family Advisory Network's 2023 Military Family Support Programming Survey.

09/21/2023

Military Birth Talk is LIVE! 🥳🙌💥
In our first episode, we hear from Gaby Cavins, Navy veteran, and Executive Director of the Military Birth Resource Network and Postpartum Coalition. Gaby shares her three birth stories, including a traumatic hospital birth (3:37), followed by a "freeing and healing" hospital birth (19:49), and concluding with a "silent, peaceful" homebirth (28:43). Over the course of her stories, Gaby shares about the way in which her varied births, and her processing of each of these transformative experiences during the postpartum period, led her to eventually become a birth worker herself. She also shares about the complexities of giving birth as an Active Duty service member (38:08). Gaby then discusses her work with MBRNPC, and shares some of the unique resources it provides to the military community (45:34).
Listen in wherever you get your podcasts, and don’t forget to subscribe to our show so you never miss an episode!
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Listen to Military Birth Talk on Spotify. Military Birth Talk features birth stories from service members, spouses, veterans, and providers, all told through the unique lens of birthing in the military. Birth is a profound, unforgettable experience leaving a lifelong imprint on our hearts. For milit...

08/31/2023

08/23/2023

🌈National Rainbow Baby Day🌈

Today we are sending our love to all those celebrating their rainbow babies, and for those still waiting in the storm, we send our hope and support that one day you will hold your rainbow.

A Rainbow Baby is a baby that is born after the loss of another baby or babies.

07/06/2023

YOUR SENATORS NEED TO HEAR FROM YOU NOW!!!!

We can’t wait! We are not sure if this expansion will remain in the Senate version and must ACT NOW! Our Senators need to know this expansion is important and matters! If not, female service members and Tricare Prime beneficiaries will continue to be left out of this critical support!

Let us know you’re with us! We need as many people as possible to call AND email Senator offices every single day!!

Advocacy toolkit hot off the press!!!!

ALL military families deserve access to birth support.

The expansion to the Childbirth and Breastfeeding Demonstration is important to support positive birth outcomes, remove the discriminatory barriers placed by the previous NDAA on service women and Tricare Prime beneficiaries, and birth equity.

Please join us in calling on your representatives to support this provision in-tact in the 2024 NDAA. Click the link below and share!!! We need all hands on deck!

Comment below letting us know you’re committed to supporting birth in the military!

https://docs.google.com/document/u/2/d/1dgLMBwAz5VBDz2u6S2vd1OGLVJ2Ww6oetiSvn-938WA/mobilebasic?fbclid=IwAR2_EbT0WR34-QvDpVSBRlEAhw01QmDI7wQVj9xy7WvOwjQrf4Tp492EDSs&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

11/28/2022

What can you do now!

Find your representative:
https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative

Call Script: Hello, my name is _____________. I am your constituent from (city, zip). I am calling you to show my support for H.R. 2521, the DOULA for VA Act. The rate of servicemembers that can become pregnant are increasing, and these Veterans are in great need of doula support. We know that doulas positively impact the prenatal and postpartum experiences, which supports veteran mental health. I am calling on-behalf of the Military Birth Resource Network and Postpartum Coalition, Veterans, and as an AD service member/spouse/Veteran/DV/supporter/etc. (Can tell your story if you have one related to birth here).

More on the Bill: This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to establish a five-year pilot program to furnish doula services to pregnant veterans who are enrolled in the VA health care system. The program must furnish doula services through eligible entities by expanding the VA's Whole Health model to measure the impact that doula support services have on birth and mental health outcomes of pregnant veterans. The Whole Health model is a holistic approach that looks at the many areas of life that may affect health in order to make a health plan suited for each individual based on his or her health goals.

10/18/2022

Welcome to the Military Birth Resource Network and Postpartum Coalition!

We are a group of birth and infant feeding experts, advocates, and military families that are working to change the landscape of birth and feeding for the military community. Founded as the Military Birth Resource Network in 2013, this transition strengthens our commitment to supporting military families through the prenatal and postpartum periods across the globe.

We are thrilled to introduce you to our Executive Director, Gaby Cavins. She is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Navy veteran, mother of 3, and Navy spouse. Gaby and our Board of Directors will be taking the helm on this mission and we look forward to having you join us!

Our Coalition Kick-Off meeting will be on November 15th, at 9am PT/12pm ET. Please register at the link below. We look forward to seeing you there!
https://usfca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIodeGsqzItH9bdirCp6hoAVKcvWlqgZzxu

07/04/2017

A very Happy Fourth of July to all of our service members and their families. We are honored to serve you.

06/18/2017

Happy Father's Day!