- Grup What is GEMMA?
GEMMA born in 2004, G roup EM MA nancy and motherhood. Four mothers (Cecilia Ruiz, Rosa Sorrentino, Helena Ferrero and Xesca Vargas) decided to give life to a maternity group i and independently cover the need for a meeting, consultation and support. Of these four mothers only Cecilia went to the office, coordinating and taking responsibility of the group until 2009.
During these years, the group offered GEMMA weekly meetings, participated in actions and social policies and showed the great strength of women's networks.
In 2009 the group continued without the figure of Cecilia, so that all cooperate and take responsibility as far as we want without being directly responsible, showing great creativity that we as women and mothers when we are together. We began to gather in the park to find a new space, enabling a new website, designed a new flyer and began to meet without delay to receive the new mothers who might be in need of support.
These days the group is a weekly meeting place for mothers who help and support each other during pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum and upbringing of their children. organize lectures and professional workshops when there is a subject that interests us. All mothers who have gone through all these years GEMMA are in contact with a large distribution list email. We have a small library and offer advice on issues that concern us.
GEMMA always say we are all mothers who have gone through the group, who are mothers GEMMA.
- Who can join Gemma and how? Is it just for women? What kind of people are in the group?
We are an open group, free and open ; interested in any aspect of pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum and parenting from the absolute respect for natural processes and processes themselves of every being. Defend therefore conscious pregnancy, natural childbirth, prolonged breastfeeding, cosleeping, baby carriers ...
No need to share and practice what we advocate to assist the group, but made it clear that what is going to support and advise is total respect to the baby-child, all are welcome the world, but are not behavioral methods and other practices disrespectful. So we receive with empathy for mothers who come with different ideas and we at heart, but without delay, give them all the information we have within reach and our tips on what we believe and defend. Then she returns to the group decides whether or not knowing what unites us. GEMMA is a support group for mothers with interests that are largely supported by society, society is responsible for supporting other roads where we do not have room, so we create a space of respect, to share freely what we believe.
The group is open to anyone interested in sharing aspects that accompany the stages of pregnancy, birth and parenting: parents, grandparents, babysitters, teachers ... but mostly attended by mothers, but sometimes some occasionally are accompanied by their partners or their mothers.
- How did you meet and why you decided to join him?
What has brought us all this group is a necessity to find the same, people with similar ideology to ours to share honestly with issues of this stage of our lives as women. Most of us were in environments where it was received with respect and support the way they understood and lived this stage of our lives, and basically, how we understood life.
Motherhood is a time of strong emotional experiences, and almost always involves a revolution of values \u200b\u200band a new layout of their lives. Many mothers GEMMA have refocused their lives radically, changing jobs or residence to live more in tune with what they felt, many say that their decision had a lot of weight group.
When the path chosen for breeding or for delivery is not socially accepted, it becomes essential to the support of a "tribe", to share doubts and decisions are taken.
I sought an environment, a "home" where you feel comfortable to talk about what bothered me and what I felt, to see the realities of what was in my heart, totally loved and respected children and how they grew. All groups found were private, were services which had to make a financial contribution. At the end I found GEMMA, the group came to me, I think.
When the group got everything I needed, I decided to attend the meetings to return all the energy he had received, offering my experiences, as something mutual. To date my attendance has been reduced because not a place where children are the protagonists and my 2 year old son is not comfortable for too long. I have participated in the creation of a new set of shared parenting, a space for children where adults accompany them. But I know I'll GEMMA for my second pregnancy and motherhood, is a cyclic group.
- What kind of activities take place?
basically met weekly and talked for two hours with our babies and children. We have a library and audiovisual material for consultation or loan.
When a topic we are interested, look for ways to organize a lecture or workshop, we often invite professionals. The group announced in our e-mail to all mothers are aware of it and publish on the web.
- What professionals have worked with you (with lectures, for example)?
Since I am a mother Gemma has been talk about sex, baby carriers, cloth diapers, baby food, we even visited a pediatric dentist and now we are planning a talk about free education. Anyone can propose a talk and can be arranged if agreed and in line with the group's ideology.
-Gemma promotes a kind of parenting that should be instinctive and natural. Why are they needed maternity and parenting groups?
I think women have lost or not we are in tune with our instincts, our nature. The maternal postpartum and offer the opportunity to rediscover our true femininity, of becoming aware of it and live it with delivery. Basically for mothers raising respectful GEMMA is not a path we have "chosen" among many, but the path we have shown connecting with our instincts and inner emotions. But let's say that this is not commonly shared and accepted today and this will create "doubts".
Our society does not welcome this type of parenting does not support most minimum and it is difficult to reconcile with the social rhythms in place (workplace, etc ...). Because parenting is a reflection of each society, how we want our children, and the goal here today is to be independent and autonomous as soon as possible so that parents can keep producing in the labor market, to get everything back to "normalcy" that existed before the baby arrives. I personally feel that children have no place in this society we have organized, often seem to bother them, as also happens with the elderly .
The biggest problem is that to quickly get to be "independent" does not respect the internal processes of development of each child (such as removing the diaper before you are ready, wanting to sleep alone and in his own room, plus other behavioral practices similar). This can cause emotional insecurities future, apart from emotional harm them much during the process.
society's intention is to "create" independent, but just the opposite happening: we did not get us with a unique personality, with a critical sense, we fail to recognize what our real interests and personal ... and consequently do not get to be happy. We just loved being only product we have accumulated much information without knowing how to manage it and some emotional problems.
Raising respectful do not share the managerial practices towards children , but not just because they can be harmful, but because we feel the mothers and fathers who practice because we could not otherwise raise, because we are in tune with mother earth and because we live with awareness. The maternity and parenting groups offer us a refuge, a binding site, energy and creativity of women.
- How to develop the meetings of the group?
Every day a mother is responsible for opening the room and prepare it and another to pick up and close. There is a mother in charge of the library and adding other new mothers to the mailing list, etc ...
The mother opened the meeting moderated room, basically so they do not end up doing small groups for discussion during the meeting, so that has a single subject at all times, not to overreach the issues if there are other mothers who want to share that day, etc ...
opens a cycle of presentations of ourselves and our children and each one raises the topic you want, doubts, joys ... need to share some have and others just to listen. Often questions are unsolvable, but we just shared if any, to ponder, to see that others are in the same or who have already passed.
most recurrent themes are breastfeeding (the night feedings with children aged 2-3 years), co-sleeping, maternity leave, vaccination, pediatricians, complementary feeding, family rejection .. .
children are with us always, except mothers of older children already in small schools (although some do not send their children), some are so small that neither downloaded from the headscarf, others sit on our laps and passed the time sucking, the most intrepid crawl or scamper around us, our circle of women.
- What would you recommend to women who want to start a breeding group in your area?
That look if there is one near your home. Asking in schoolhouses free at health food stores, for example. Searching on the Internet network in sensitive content with raising respectful, breastfeeding, etc ...
And if there is, believe it! Just need to come together several Moms! In the park, a house, or on a rotating basis, to seek a place of public sale in community centers, neighborhood associations, or perhaps a private (consumer cooperatives have their premises without use several hours a day, example). Most mothers would love to find a group, known as a mother with similar ideas discuss the issue.
- Do you have website?
Yes, easily created and maintained by ourselves:
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